The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> the cost of assyrian nationalism....

the cost of assyrian nationalism....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, August 6 2012, 18:54:36 (UTC)
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....this post from Maggie's message board tells it all...

"As the Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance Day is approaching and our Assyrian Social, Religious and Political Organizations will commemorate the fallen victims let us not forget a very brave Assyrian who courageously and heroically scarified(truer than you imagined) himself to save his fellow American soldiers from imminent death. This Assyrian Hero became a casualty of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His Navy division had many dare devil combats with the evil forces of the insurgents that destroyed Iraq. It has been well reported that a military operation took place and an insurgent threw a hand grenade onto a group of American and Iraqi Soldiers and this unique, courageous Assyrian Petty Officer perceived the devastation of the grenade and without any hesitation suffocated it by throwing himself onto the grenade which exploded shattering his body parts but saved his fellow soldiers from imminent injury or death. This is the PINNACLE of bravery, sacrifice, martyrdom and a real Patriotism to his Country and a National Martyr for his Assyrian Nation.
Rest In Peace our Hero and may Ashuriel bless your Soul and your blessed Name our martyr akhona “MICHAEL ANTHONY MANSOR”.

On September 29th,2006 you were born again and we are proud of you.
Youel Eshay Sydney

...for us to understand how we're viewed by our fellows in the Mideast, Iraq especially, we have to imagine the shoe on the other foot. What would we say about an American who emigrated to Iraq and later joined the Iraqi army...and what if this army attacked America and this soldier helped murder American children...the children of his homeland, America. And what would we say about him, here in America? That he was a hero? Would we praise him to god for saving the lives of other Iraqi soldiers so they could go on raping and murdering and destroying American culture and America itself? Or, would we see him as an arch traitor to America and, if he were Muslim, would we not turn our fury against American Muslims for producing such a man AND the Muslim-American community in America for honoring him...as well as any other Muslim nations who did the same?

...and yet what is this Mansour to Iraq but an arch villain, someone who put on the uniform of another country to help it devastate his own? And when our people praise such a man, do we not see how and why the rest of us are viewed in Iraq the way we are?...and that it was never for our religion, or so-called ethnic identity that we are hated but for what we have DONE...especially when in the pay, and uniform, and with the citizenship of foreign enemies to Iraq?

...but even more than that...this martyr celebration will be yet another one where not a single assyrian murdered by American Christians will be so honored...in fact they won't even be mentioned...they don't "count"...because, although just as dead, they were not killed by Muslims and therefore don't "advance the national cause"...which seems to come down to getting as many of us killed by Muslims as it will take to arouse American "pity".

That's the kind of scum we produce as assyrian nationalists. And they are the primary reason we have been treated as we have....yes, it has been OUR fault.



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