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Re: and another thing...
Posted by AssyrianMuslim (Guest) - Wednesday, November 21 2007, 16:54:18 (CET)
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Exactly right, why do we have to provide further evidence when this is a fact. My mom can tell you that and any Assyrian that I know will tell you the same thing. So, it is not a "few ignorants" but it is a "majority of ignorants" that hold this believe. So, tell us about those Assyrians that you know who do not let their Christian church of the east prejudices get in the way of accepting others, cuz I haven't met any. It is always the same thing with you people. Assyrian means being Christian to them and nothing more. Else they wouldn't deny it when some one questions if there are Assyrians of other faiths, the answer is always "no, we are all Christian". To be honest, I careless about what some priest or some Christian fanatic tells me because I don't cooperate with their desires nor do they dictate who or what one regards him/herself.

Now Mancho, tell us honestly, if you had been born into a Roman Catholic family, would you be calling yourself Assyrian today, or would you be calling yourself Chaldean just as they do? Answer honestly please. The majority of Assyrians are only Assyrian because they belonged to the Nestorian creed, and the Chaldeans joined the Catholic church. That is the way these two "religious communities" distinguish themselves. Just as you people deny the Arameans of Syria and Turkey the right to call themselves "Aramean" when in fact, they speak their language and have more grounds for their claims, they same applies to the church of the east Assyrians. The Jews didn't forget what or who they were and then later come back 2000 years later and say "we are Jews". Our case is different from others. We seem to have totally forgotten our ethnicity and lost our identity because of religion or church. So, when you people deny the Chaldeans and the Suryoye who call themselves Aramean and accuse them of receiving their names from foreign missionaries, yet the same applies to us as well. Dadeesho, Aprim and the many other wannabe chiefs would most likely not be calling themselves Assyrians if they were Roman Catholic or Syrian Orthodox.

It is strange that this case only applies to you Syriac speaking Christians. For example Germany, there are various Christian denominations and then there and pleanty of German Muslims, atheists, etc, yet it don't seem to affect their ethnic identity. In the case for our so called Assyrians it is purely a religious thing and "Assyrian" "Christian" is one and the same to them. So, there is no need to play dumb and naive about it this is the view held by the great majority of "Suraye" or else they wouldn't be shocked or have problem when they hear of an Assyrian who is not a Christian. Or else, my previous Christian Assyrian friends would not have stopped being my friends or stop associating with me after I embraced Islam. That case applies to all the other Assyrian Muslims that I have met. If it were not for their religious biases, it would not matter to them, plain and simple. So stop trying to ignore facts and for once be Assyrian enough to acknoledge simple facts.



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