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Re: ...one more........
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, February 24 2013, 0:36:39 (UTC)
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What if, instead of Iraq, the Brits had called it Assyria. Would that calm today's nationalists? Probably not, because then Assyria would be a Muslim country and they'd still be a minority..."in our OWN country"!.


If you ask an assyrian what he is, he will say he is a "nation", has assyrian blood and genes....tell him he is just a religious sect with a trumped up political front, and he'll deny it...ask him if you can be a Muslim and be an Assyrian, he'll say "no"...he'll tell you it's a matter of blood...but if you have the requisite "blood" and are even born in an Assyria and even learn to speak Aramaic, but are Muslim, or convert to Islam, he'll tell you that means you are no longer Assyrian...if you then ask, "hey, what happened to change my blood...or the place of my birth, or the assyrian language I speak....he'll say that doesn't matter because you are no longer Christian...if you point out to him that this proves what you said in the beginning; that this is nothing more than a religious sect hiding behind a "national/political" name in order to secure a Christian enclave...he'll start in on you again with Blood and Genes and Nation and all the rest of it, denying it has anything to do with religion.

And this goes round and around and around.....



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