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Written by By: Samir Johna, MD, FACS on 14 Oct 2006 07:39:46:

Assyrian Costumes

By: Samir Johna, MD, FACS

On October 4th, 2006, I was taken by surprise when I found myself alone in my Assyrian traditional costume (fig 1) among others at Woodbury University, department of fashion design, Burbank, California. Jean Kardously and Ninos Aho gave me the impression that there was an international festival for traditional costumes. It turned about to be a lecture delivered by Dale Gluckman, the former Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, entitled,? Exotic Inspirations?. For centuries European and American fashion designers incorporated elements from traditional cultures in the creation of exciting new garments. The lecture was great! I enjoyed it tremendously. What a great speaker she was! However, I was put on the spot when I was asked to come up to the podium and tell the story of my costume! Here is what I had to say. Please excuse my inefficiencies or deficiencies since I was not prepared for it.

Thank you, Dale, for this enlightening and intriguing presentation. It has been a pleasant detour from my daily routine of surgery! I would like to thank you all for giving me this ?unexpected? opportunity to talk about my Assyrian costume. But before that, it is only appropriate to answer a relevant question,? who are the Assyrians??

For those of you who do not know, Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia.

...you can call the Aboriginees of Australia the "indigenous people" of that continent...because we know of no others before them...but the Assyrians were not the indigenous, or not the ONLY indigenous people, of BetNahrain..and there you see the problem. There can´t be two indigenous people, or three or four...so let´s cut this piece of crap out of our vocabulary as well...the Assyrians were among the "earliest known" people of that land...period. No one knows who the first ones were...but we know for sure the Assyrians were not first.

Our history goes back to 6756 years ago. Having ruled the entire Middle East for many centuries, we excelled not only in wars but also in peace. Many of our discoveries and inventions are still alive today, speaking for one of the greatest civilizations ever known.

...true. Al the more reason to feel secure in the knowledge that these people did NOT throw it all away for a Jew god. If cannibals and Hottentots fought toth and nail to keep their teeth and nails...you klnow the Assyrians didn´t throw it all away for sackcloth and ashes...which is your new "national" costume.

But ever since we lost our empire in 612 B.C., history has not been kind to us.

...well hell...YOU people haven´t been kind to history.

During the first and the second centuries after Christ, Assyrians lived in small principalities in Northern Mesopotamia. One of them was Esrhoene, with Edessa being the capital. During his reign, Abgar Ukama sent a letter to Jesus

...how can a grown man still believe this crap!

asking him to come to Edessa and cure him, the king, of a fatal disease.

..this is your priest talking...Jesus was NOT known anywhere outside his own country and barely even within it..he was not "great news" as you all like to think he was. Besides which, he was a JEW and being converted to "his" religion would mean these dipsy, disease-ridden, Assyrians converted to Judaism...that IS sick! This fable is another sign of your self-loathing...because it implies that the Assyrian god, ever more the gentleman than yahwe, was helpless and only a Jew god could bring the penicillin...which, by the way, is an interesting comment on how people "convert"...if they get some tangible benefit, they will...if not...screw it. Is it the religion or the cures it brings?

According to Eusebius in his Historia Ecclesiastica, Jesus promised to send one of his disciples to cure the king and to convert him and those about him to life eternal once he was done with the work he was sent to accomplish. Disciple Thomas Judas sent Addai, one of the seventy apostles, who cured the king and converted the Assyrians in 32 A.D., making us the first nation in history to accept Christianity.

...boring..and dumb too. In 32 AD there WERE no Christians...only slightly unorthodox Jews follwing their next new Messiah. And you were NOT a nation back then either. Armenia was the first actual nation to BE converted to Christ.

Through out the centuries Christianity became the cross that we had to endure, atrocity after another and genocide after another. Perhaps the worse was the forgotten holocaust that befell all Christians of the Middle East under the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1920. Over one million Armenian, 750,000 Assyrians, along with Greeks and other Christians, were slaughtered for no reason other than being Christians

...then maybe you´d like to say a word for over 27,000 Christian children murdered by Euro and American Christians...no? Whassamatter, they not "dead" enough for you? Or did the wrong people kill them?

Today there are only 4 millions of us scattered in over 33 countries around the world, being recognized by the United Nations as a nation without country.

...a meaningless phrase...like so many you people covet and relish.

We have been stripped of our country

..no you haven´t..the country has gotten RID of you...the country is now Iraq. The country is still there as are several Assyrians trying desperately to remain..which you Christians have made all but impossible for them by killing their neighbors on false premises. You are now helping Christian nations to strip and bury "your" country. It is not yours...you are an American...you are paying the American government to murder "your" country.

and our contributions to history and humanity

..those are alive and well and being defended by Muslim Iraqis....today´s descendants of the ancient people, ALL of the ancient people, of BetNahrain. You have nothing to do with that country...except to burn it long-distance.

but will never be stripped of our identity and our will to survive.

...if you call this "survival" for an "Assyrian"...go ahead.

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