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Re: syria always meant assyria too...
Posted by Rashad (Guest) - Friday, March 8 2013, 6:11:39 (UTC)
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This is really conniving on the part of those who make this claim. It does injustice to the people of Syria. Assyrians existed the same time Syria also existed and they even conquered that land. Are they saying Syria never existed and was always Assyria? Of course no Assyrian of today will say Syrians are the same because the majority are Muslims and Arabs. Syria has its own history and is different from Assyria, which was a different land with different people. It's convenient for them to make this claim because the names sound similar and the Aramaic language but that don't prove that Syria was Assyria and the two are the same. They can't even explain why they made the "correction" only after the discovery and why they only then "remembered" everything. It was convenient because they were living there already when the discovery was made and nobody was using Assyrian as an identity, but the Chaldean identity helped them jump on Assyrian bandwagon because now they had something "better" which they could claim and it would also distinguish them from the Catholics who were using Chaldean. They no longer had to say Nestorian-Chaldean, now they were Assyrian, which was really just Nestorian.

For the longest it was just Nestorians using it as an identity until with recent efforts they were able to get few Chaldeans and Suryoye to jump along. Aramean is being used by the Suryoye, Chaldean by Catholics and Nestorians use Assyrian. The difference is that the last of them has been more radical in their approach and willing to use shady tactics and whatever they can do to get people along, and as long as they're Christian. Chaldeans have no problem being Iraqi, and Suryoye have no problem with being Syrian. I lived with many Suryoye in Germany and they always identified as "orthodox Syrians". They can call themselves whatever they want but they're fooling nobody serious. Only deluded western Christians pay them any kind of attention and those are rare and few. They shout it from rooftops whenever any white man mentions their name.

That shows how insignificant they really are. I didn't know any Kurds until I moved to Atlanta, except for those from Turkey that lived in Germany, but they spoke Turkish and I didn't know much about them. I have seen them now and find them very nice people and far more tolerant than Assyrians. All the things I was ever told of them are false or maybe Kurds just changed and no longer behave that way. They are educated, nice and tolerant people. They don't care if you're Christians, Muslim, atheist, etc. Turns out Assyrians are the backwards ones and racists and hate everyone, not Kurds.



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