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Pancho, Too bad your great-great grandfather, and great-grandfather aren't around to give you your PROOF! They would have been living exmaples of the many Assyrian nationalists that gave birth to great Assyrian thinkers, who DID NOT define their identity through "Christianity". Henry Layard did NOT "discover" the Assyrians. He discovered our ancient sites and artifacts. We didn't need a godamned Brit to tell us who we were. He would not have called us Assyrians if we had not called ourselves Assyrians back then. Granted, many explorers and early Archaelogists wrote about us in terms of "Nestorians" and "Chaldeans" but it was only because THEY themselves were "Christians" funded by the Church of England, and other missionaries who were hell bent on keeping us "Christians". There were many nationalists even back in those days that DID NOT define their identity through Christianity. They were the same people that influenced your grandfather, Freidun Atouraya, and other Assyrian nationalists who did not believe in Christianity, but in Assyria. That's why your grandfather was among the first group of Assyrians, whom around the turn of the century, fought against the Assyrian Patriarchs, the Assyrian churches, and all those other tribal Assyrian chiefs who were in cohoots with the Archbishop of Canterbury. People do not rise to such nationalistic levels over night! Something or someone HAD to instill those ideas in them, to make them think in those terms. If you do not know why men like Freidun Atouraya were betrayed by Assyrian church leaders, and arrested and hanged as a spy, then you need to go on a journey to discover your forefather's struggles for Assyrian identity. Those sorts of men you do not read about, because the Assyrian leadership back then was in the hands of the Assyrian church, just the way it is today! That's why evey book written, every conversation held in Assyrian society even today comes back to Christianity. NO ONE in the Assyrian community DARES to go against the grain, that's why we are in the state we are. The first thing that will happen to them is they will be "moukhrimeh" from the mainstream Assyrian society. Let ANYONE open their mouth against the church leadership, and you will see what they will do to you! Our identity will always be defined through our leadership. This is something Assyrians have never understood. If our leaders define us to the world as "Christians" then we will be "Christians" or even better, be given a "Christian" seat in the Iraqi parliament, just the way they did recently. And NO, I wasn't named after Ann-Margaret. I was named An, after the Assryian sky goddess! The Margaret part came later, when Margaret George died fighting for Assyria. There were many Ninos and Sargons in Assyria during my grandfather's time, and even his grandfather's time before him, much more than there is today! --------------------- |
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