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Humans versus Dehumans
Posted by Qasrani (Guest) - Monday, August 28 2006, 19:20:26 (CEST)
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I don't know who started paying Peter off, but this guy has changed quite a bit in the 10 years that I've known him. I don't even recognize this guy that writes these hate-filled messages.

By his words "Our Assyrian civilization, by virtue of its Christianity, is a
Western civilization." It's evidently the logic that Pancho always references in the whole "if you can't beat them, join them" slave mentality of modern Assyrians.

Why must Assyrians EVER define themselves outside the context of the region from which they have lived and thrived for millenia? Civilizations rise and fall, languages come and go, the fact that we are at (perhaps) the tail end of Assyrian existence has more to do with that naturally occurring anthropological phenomenon.

Why is the Assyrian suffering so unique today? Every Iraqi today that has the slightest moderate view is under attack, it isn't just the Christians. Unfortunately for the Christians, they cannot camouflage themselves in neutrality because there are people like Peter that foment the hatred between Iraqi Muslims and Christians. "I THINK you hate me, therefore I hate you (before you can hate me)." It's so ridiculous.

To lose your sense of empathy, you cease to be human. It is happening all around us, wherever you look... Humans walking among dehumans. That's my new word for these sorts of people.

It is so easy, when the world gets rough, to dehuman (yourself and others). Calling people "bankrupt Marxists" which is supposed to conjure up some images of I-don't-know-what. But the words speak more to the mentality of the speaker... The man hasn't read or perhaps understood what he's read on the evolution of political economy in the last 20 years. "Marxist" isn't a dirty word, but Peter hopes that it is... And if you just happened to think that it isn't a dirty word, then he'll call you "bankrupt" to boot.

We are a Middle Eastern people with no "buts" about it. We maintained our culture and language long after the pax Assyriana and the lingua franca gave way to other cultures. If you want to talk about oppression and such, you need only look to the spectrum of recorded human history. Islam may be standing in the same position that the Assyrian Empire once stood and revisiting the same pressures (I intentional use the word "pressures") that the Assyrian Empire imposed on its concurred territories to recognize Alaha Ashur and the King as the son of God on Earth. [Simo Parpola, "SONS OF GOD - THE IDEOLOGY OF ASSYRIAN KINGSHIP" at: http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/introduction/sonsofgod.htm]
This reality does not make us any less a part of what is modern-day Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran, whatever our religion is.

I don't have to look to the West to validate my identity, which is what Peter's underlying premise is. I am Assyrian because I think I'm Assyrian and that is enough. If you want to say Assyrians are also Arab, Persian, Turkish, and nowadays Americans, Australian, Swedish, Mexican, so be it.

Peter's myopic view of the world of "them versus us" leaves no room for discussion. Islam being "them," he does not distinguish the individual. I do admit that it is harder to live life by taking people one individual at a time, but it enriches life in so many ways that it is definitely worth it. So, in truth what I am saying is that Peter takes the intellectually lazy route and in doing so dehumanizes people and becomes dehuman himself. I hope that one day he figures himself out and that this new wave of hate is just that... something that will ebb if it is given enough time.



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