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Posted by farid (Guest) - Wednesday, October 8 2003, 21:28:16 (EDT)
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Reading at aina you really come to believe these people are all crazy. The Assyrians keep insisting the Chaldean people are nothing but a religious sect...not an "ethnicity"...like they say they must be. Last I read anywhere religion has no part in ethnic determination...certainly not in this mishmashed era.

What the Assyrian Christians claim to be their ethnic group is also nothing more than a religious sect...an offshoot of Judaism...a sub-sect if you want. The only way it could be an ethnic identity at all would be for all of them to admit religious preferences have nothing to do with ethnic strains...and therefore properly speaking there cannot possibly be in survival any sort of ethnic group claiming purity or "close to it" for the last 3000 years or more...as they've been invaded by everybody and his sister...women carried off or married off...and have been circulating around the world marrying people of other ethnic groups whose common RELIGION doesn't bind them "in the blood" in any way whatsoever.

They are ALL in error as long as they battle over religoious distinctions and fine points...they are ALL religious sects...each trying to deny the obvious and make of their religious preferences and prejudices an ethnicity...something you can do only with that dictionary Hanna "The Najjar" Hajjar wrote.

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