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Re: Syriac means Assyrian

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Written by Hanna Hajjar on 04 Sep 2006 04:15:49:

As an answer to: Re: our langugae written by Ashur Giwargis on 03 Sep 2006 23:14:00:

Dear Ashur,

A little correction here, you said:

>There is no "Syriac" in historical reality,

To say there is no Syriac, implies that there is no Assyrian, because Syriac is Assyrian.

...no proof will be given for any of the statements made here....

The problem with many Easterners, is that they try to chop out history as they please and narrow its definition to fit their own description, by trying to tailor it to thier own interpretation to what is Assyrian and what is not.

...well that's funny. This from a man who wrote that he didn't need to refer to any dictionaries because he had his OWN definitions!

Here is what I mean:

In order to prove that they are Assyrians, they try to define whatever language they speak as Assyrian, and that leads to a dangerous conclusion because that implies (in their eyes only) that what ever doesn't match their own definition is not Assyrian.

...have you EVER looked in a mirror?

...I cut away the rest of it...but here are some statements that bear
watching:

Here are two more facts:
After the fall of the Assyrian Empire, Assyrians escaped west to Harran,

On the other hand Assyrians who stayed in the Nineveh plains region,

if you are to look for Assyrians after the fall of Assyria, you need to look in the west, because that is where they escaped to.

...earlier he says that Assyrians escaped to the west...and then he says Assyrians also stayed in the east...okay. But then, in his last paragraph and because he NEEDS to prove they were only in the east for his entire point to hold true..he ends by saying if you want to see Assyrians, you have to look in the WEST! What happned to the ones he just left in the EAST?

Hanna is a muddle of what he likes to call "facts"...on closer examination these facts of his are nothing more than his personal prejudices as gleaned from Syriac manuscripts, the bible and his OWN dictionary...he has merely applied the word "facts" to them...like he taped the word "Assyrian" to his arse-end.

Within one bit of writing he flatly contradicts himself and doesn't even see it...just goes blithely sailing on. He starts by conceding that Assyrians, after the fall, existed in both the west and east (why he leaves out north and south, I don't know)...but, since he already knows what he wants to "prove"..i.e. that Assyrians were ONLY to be found in the west . because that would "prove: his thesis...he goes ahead and wipes them out of the east...where he earlier addmitted they existed.

These are our scholars and historians.

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