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Some one New Joins Us...

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, September 7 2010, 2:45:06 (UTC)
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I received this email this very morning and received permission to post here, with no name....yet. Another brave soul who dares use his own head to understand.....

"Hello,

I just wanted to thank "Poncho" and the few virtual voices that have the knowledge and balls to attempt to reach some semblance of truth in this forum. I have spent half of my 38 years of life trying to shed the self-hatred and shame instilled within my young mind by my father's Assyrian family because my mother happens to be Persian. I cannot count how many times my "Assyrianess" has been discredited by the so-called ''PURE" or ''FULL-BLOODED'' Assyrians when I disclosed that I was born in Tehran to a young and beautiful Persian mother -- or the fact that my grandmother is part Azeri.

Since my father passed away, I have run and keep running from anything religious, Assyrian and Middle-Eastern. When I removed myself from the Church of the Beast, I finally began to feel liberated. I used to think that it's only my family who are bitter, racist and controlling, but upon reading comments by other Assyrians on-line, I realised that this is a deep-seated disease from which many of these folks suffer: a dis-ease with anything and anyone who is Muslim, or anybody who happens to question their insanity.

Anyway, I was really surprised (and happy) to find this forum where reason rules over bullshit, emotional nationalism. Unfotuantely, lacking the proper education (I'm a community college drop-out), I'm not able to participate in the discussions. I hope you keep doing what you're doing and I humbly ask if you can recommend reading materials (books or sites) that can help me understand Assyrian history and the situation in the Mid-East.

By the way, I read what you wrote regarding genocide and wanted to share a definition I came across in a piece by James Axtell titled ''The Moral Dimension of 1492", in which he uses Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn's definition of the word: "Genocide is a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator.'' He elaborates that "such a definiton excludes from consideration victims -- civilian or military-- of a two-sided war, of any natural or uninteded disaster, and of any individual or 'loose cannons' acting outside the orders of the state or political authority. The last are, more precisely, homicidal maniacs or mass murderers who massacre innocent people.'' He argues that "historians should also counsel against the use of any kind of moral blackmail" and that "we owe all the people of the past equal and impartial understanding, not just it's victims or the fashionable favorites of the media." I thank you for your knowedge and courage. "

...my response to him included the wish that I should be so "uneducated"...and an invitation to join the discussion...believe me, friend, the worst is over.

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