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Re: Being curious
Posted by AssyrianMuslim (Guest) - Thursday, November 15 2007, 9:27:24 (CET)
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I call myself Assyrian because that is the name I inherited from my parents. Don't get me wrong I am not denying that we can be Assyrian, but what I am saying is that for nearly 2000 years there was no "Assyrianism" and had possibly the British not used this name for the Nestorians in Iraq, who knows what they be calling themselves, but there is no doubt that the ancient Assyrians, Babyloniabs, and other Mesopotamian tribes are the great ancastors of most modern day Iraqis and not only the Christians who seem to use the label as a religious thing. We are free to use any label or term we like and if an atheist from Iraq feels strong about ancient Assyrians why not? why only the Christians when they only recently recieved the name. If you go to modern day Babylon(Hila and surrouding areas of Iraq), the inhabitans of that area still proudly call themselves "Babylonians" and they have every right to do so no matter what faith they have. But to limit the usage of names such as Assyrian, Chaldean or Babylonian to a particular Christian sect is absurd.

I am not saying we can't use the name, I am just questioning why only the few Christians want to have the name exclusive to themselves and no one else can use it when they themselves didn't use it until foreigners revived it. So, I thought I already had made the point clear as to why we use it today and the real reason is because it was given to us by foreigners and if your parents were Roman Catholic, you most likely would call yourself a "Chaldean" and if they are Nestorian, then you be "Assyrian". I am not saying we can't use it, but I am rather just wondering what would the result of today's Christians of Iraq be had it not been for the foreigners who used these names while our people had apparently forgotten them for 2000 years.

But one is always free to use it if one chooses to, but there is no way that anyone is purely or directly related to the ancient Assyrians and one can't surely be related to them just because of a particular faith. It is rather how one feels about it and passionate one is, it hardly has anything to do with faith, or blood since all humans have some diversed ancastors. I hope you get my point, Peace be with you.



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