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Clobbered For Assyria

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Friday, December 7 2007, 20:18:25 (CET)
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I’ll tell you why I think this assyrian heritage as a device to get territory is a bad idea. To date it has been a self-fulfilling prophesy bringing retaliation whenever the claim is made BECAUSE the claim is made…because to make the claim is to engage in sedition. To call the legal government of a nation “usurpers” or imply they are “withholding land illegally” which belongs to a minority is a crime in any country. To teach these things to children, in your “schools” is also illegal and will bring punitive action down on your head by the government…ask Native Americans.

Without these nationalists claims and demands what are we? A Christian minority the majority of whom manage to live in peace with their Muslim neighbors with no more than the usual enmity wherever religions are split among neighbors…but that’s all. There’s no action taken against law-abiding citizens who happen to be Christians, or claim to be Assyrian. It isn’t “illegal” to be Christian…neither is it illegal to say you are descended from the ancients, or to sing assyrian songs or make an assyrian theatre. The problem comes when you make land claims based on your heritage, or expect special treatment or rights.

If you take the government to task for denying your minority claims…then you WILL be punished…but not persecuted…you will be prosecuted etc. You can holler afterwards that you were persecuted for “being Christian- Assyrian”, but the slightest examination into the facts, all of them, surrounding your claims will show the actual state of affairs…do that enough times and you will indeed incur the enmity of officials. Especially if you make these lopsided claims to foreigners, such as Western Christian nations…which is exactly what started a lot of the trouble back when the missionaries first entered those lands and encouraged the Christian minorities to complain to representatives of European powers. It was tempting, no doubt, to have such a fine bully at their backs to even the score with some Muslims…but it proved disastrous…as it will again.

Making these demands, not being Christian Assyrian, has caused the trouble. And they’re being made again. That’s what needs to be stopped or rendered futile…so people can make the clear distinction that to “be” Assyrian and even Christian carries with it no difficulty, not until sedition is engaged in as a way of getting territory, or special rights etc. and is the sedition which is punished and NOT the ChristianAssyrian.

I’m writing against sedition committed by the few and punishment it brings down on the community…not against Assyrians and not Christians either. And I don’t hate anybody.

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