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Posted by AssyrianMuslim (Guest) - Sunday, November 4 2007, 2:23:04 (CET)
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It is a fact that various great civilizations achieved many great accomplishments in all kinds of different fields. For example, The Egyptians, the Greeks, The Summerians, Babylonians, Persians, Chinese, Assyrians, Indians and many others. There are some people who are fair and give fair judgement and proper credit when it's due. I was surfing on the net looking at various inventions throughout times, and there was an article which was talking about the Arab Islamic golden age, and I had no clue who had written it, but I decided to read it. After Just a few seconds I began to realize how much prejudices and bigotry the atricle contained. When I got to the bottom of the page, sure enough the article was written by a Christian Assyrian who is not even worth mentioning his name.

It is one thing to proud of your accomplishements, and it is another thing when someone is prejudce and makes judgement. However, some ppl are so prejudice that it affects their judgement and in the end such narrow mentality only proves bigotry and ignorance. Basically the person who wrote the article was trying to say that The Arabs were killing everyone and stealing their works and claiming credit. Now such thoughts may be persuasive to someone who never been to school or someone with the same prejudices may find such information useful, but it don't hold water in the civilized world or the real world. So I decided to go on google and do further research and was reading the various achievements and what real scholars and historians had to say about the Islamic golden age (8th to the 15th century ce)and they had a whole different attitude. Had it not been for the Arabs making effort to preserve the great works of the ancient mesopotamians and Greeks, and had they not translated the works into Arabic, the world would know hardly anything about those achievements and they would have been lost.

Unfortunately, there are people who will never be able to put their prejudices aside and will never give proper credit to other people. Here is a quote from someone who is reliable and his prejudices do not affect his judgement:

"The achievements of the Arabic speaking peoples between the ninth and the twelfth centuries are so great as to baffle our understanding. The deceadence of Islam and or Arabic is almost as puzzling in its speed and completenesness as their phenominal rise. Scholars will forever try to explain it as they try to explain the decadence and the fall of Rome. Such questions are exeedingly complex and it is impossible to answer them in a simple way". George Sarton, 'the incubation of western culture in the Middle East.

I guess the geniuses of modern "ASSYRIANISM" have provided us with the answers to the achievements of the Arabs. I wonder why no scholar or historian has ever tried to learn things from the modern so called Assyrians. Maybe it's because they know that the ancient Assyrians are not here today and what we have is a group of racist and intolerant people whom the British created in the early 1900s in order to use them. One thing is for certain, today Assyrians will have to forever try to convince the world that they are true descendents of the ancients and they will be forever trying to explain what happened to all of the other great Mesopotamian peoles who existed long after the fall of Assyria (612bce). It's amazing what kind of mentality we are dealing with here, yet these are the people who claim to be the only indigenous peoples of modern Iraq and everything belongs to them, but the day they can get their dream fulfilled is the day when the poor Natives of America get back what is theirs and when the gencide against black Americans is recognized, or when the Uyghurs of east Turkestan and get theirs.

As brother Pancho stated, it don't work that way in the international world. Nobody wins by wanting sympathy, by crying or by fabricating lies. Being indigenous doesent help these days, but I still hold firm that Assyrians would have been much better off had they not betrayed the Turks nor joined the alliances with the British or the Russians. We at least were pretty much independent in our area and had outside guranteed protection from the Ottomans as guranteed by Islamic law. I take that anyday over what the kkk style Assyria that the fanatics want.

One more thing I found interesting was when the church bombings took place in Iraq a few years ago I remember seeing images of Iraqi Muslim Arabs in tears crying while seeing what was happening to their fellow country men, yet if they only knew how some of their fellow country men think. The Iraqi ppl regardless of race or religion always lived together in peace for the most part and just as the bombings of Islamic houses of worship and the Shiite shrines, it is the same group that is responsible for the church bombings, but the fanatics will conveniently blame Muslim because it is not about Assyria but rather about Christianity; the village priests still hold a grudge because of political interests so they stir their members with hate and prejudices, yet call themselves followers of Jesus(pbuh). What a joke.



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