The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

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Posted by AssyrianMuslim (Guest) - Friday, February 12 2010, 0:38:14 (CET)
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My youngest sister and I were having a conversation last night about Assyrians. She was telling me how Assyrians piss her off with their idead that they are better than others, how they are racist and other things. She then mentioned how nobody knows of them unless one is a history teacher, or student of the Bible. That is when I was obliged to remind her that those Assyrians the history teachers know about are the ancient civilisation of Mesopotamia and not her white boy cousins in Canada who run around with their hair spiked up and a couple of "Assyrian flag" tatoos. She laughed and agreed of course. I had to tell her that the ancients and today's church of the east are totally different. It was the Brits who named the remaining Nestorians with the name, "Assyrian" just as the Italians and Catholics named the ex Nestorians with the name, "Chaldean". So, a Fred Aprim or Ken Joseph is not the same as an Ashur Banipal or Tikulti Ninurta.

The Chaldeans never took this too serious while the Nestorians took this opportunity to constantly betray their countries and hope the gain something from every "golden chance". This has given them a bad reputation while Chaldeans achieved much more and were not viewed with suspicion. That could be perhaps one of the reasons as to why Chaldeans are not very accepting of the idea that they are mixed up with "Assyrians" or even portrayed as such. The Chaldeans lived in the NIneveh area and other parts of Mesopotamia while many Nestorians were in the Hakarri mountains until they were chased out by Turks and Kurds because their traitor like acts.

While Fred Aprim and others were hiding in the mountains trying to preserve their "Assyrian identity" others were involved in creating yet another great empire with Mesopotamia being the heartland and Baghdad being one of the capitals. Being a descendant of the ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, etc has nothing to do with a particular religion, language, etc. A Saddam Hussein could be just as much Assyrian as a Christian and possibly more. After all, it is about blood and ancestry rather than religion. Nobody is pure anything today and our nationalists and their silly demands are nothing more than free entertainment. None of the three typical answers given by our nationalists as their proof that they are truly Assyrians are valid. The answers are usually: religion, location and language. None of these are proofs. There is no historical truth that the "Assyrian church of the east" was the created during the time of Jesus or of any "Assyrians" converting to this religion.

Being born in a land does not make one related to a peoples who lived their over 2,600 years ago, and speaking Aramaic does not prove much neither.

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