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More Sillies from Maggie
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, October 8 2010, 21:56:51 (UTC)
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...I swear this stuff about how we are assyrians can really screw your head...on top of the sectarian envy and hostility we also have Iraq and Syrian assyrians who hate Persian assyrians...Persian assyrians don't hate Iraqi assyrians, they just wish they'd bathe more often and get decent haircuts...but Iraqi assyrians feel their inferiority in terms of modern culture....here is Maggie making yet another fool of herself as she tries to claim superiority of geographical origin too....


More Iranian Propaganda *LINK* *PIC*

Posted By: Maggie Yonan
Date: Friday, 8 October 2010, at 3:53 p.m.

What new discovery? What new mystery? Are you for REAL?

This is pure Iranian propaganda because it doesn't take into account that today's Iran is a mere creation of the British and that it was once part and parcel of Mesopotamia. Every legitimate archaeologist knows that. That's why the study is called Assyriology, not Persianology, or Iranology. Arrat in Assyrian simply means "lands." Gilgamesh was king of the Assyrian city of Uruk, from which today's Iraq got it's name, and the region mentioned in this video was part of Uruk in ancient times, before the tectonic shifts and the continental divide. There's no mystery here, no fantastic discovery. It's all part of the same civilization: ASSYRIA.


Okay where to begin....well, why not at the beginning...I hate to be the first one to point out to the Magster that the very word "Mesopotamia" means: between rivers....known by all to mean the Tigris and Euphrates. One hesitates to point out, for fear of overtaxing her head, that in Aramaic the word also means "between rivers"....or BetNahrain....and they're the same two rivers...so that to be accurate about it BetNahrain means primarily those lands between the Tigris and Euphrates...which Persia is definitely NOT.

Also, there is indeed a specific and distinct field called Persian Studies, which does not come under Assyriology. Dr Frye, husband of Dr Eden Naby is a recognized scholar and expert in the field of Persian Studies...he is not part of any Assyriology Department.....though their areas overlap on numerous occasions, they are distinct fields with their own advanced degrees and titles.

As to why it is called Assyriology and not, as she coins the term, "Persianology" is simply because they use a better word for the study of Iran and Persia...it's called "Iranian Studies...or Persian Studies....I suppose a Persian could ask the pointed question as to why the study of assyrians isn't called Assyrian Studies...I don't know...it just isn't...but that doesn't move Persia westward by several hundred miles.

What's the real point here...? I think it's the same jealousy at work...the same envy assyrians show for each other, only this time with an anti-Persian bias to it...no one who knows both sides doubts who is the more cultured and refined...or who is crude, rude, loud and garish. To give herself an advantage the Magster wants to move Persia over into Mesopotamia and take credit for their civilization as well...and all from her accountant's desk in Modesto...without even having to skip lunch to make such a prodigous move.

India was once "part and parcel" of the British Empire....but it was not Britain...or Ireland...it was never moved to the banks of the Thames river...likewise Persia once came within the sphere of the Assyrian Empire which, it is true, had its heart and center in BetNahrain...but this did not MOVE Persia to Assyria...any more than India ever moved...it remained itself, where it always has been but with British influence and some traditions etc.

And, after the Medes defeated the Assyrians, they moved right in and brought Assyria into their empire, "part and parcel"...but no Iranian has ever said they MOVED Assyria to the east! Neither do they claim that Assyrian culture is just Persian culture and nothing more...there were influences going back and forth, in both directions...but to Maggie, desperately in need of bolstering her resume....the Persians BELONG to Assyria...so "ha ha ha to all those snooty and superior Persian assyrians"...say, like the ones in the AUA...which, in Maggie's Mall, is made of Persian "spies" and with which Maggie is really engaged in a battle and not any Arabs, Turks etc.

This was just her way of pulling rank on Persian assyrians...thas all.

See how stupid this stuff makes you when you can't even understand what BetNahrain MEANS?



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