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Taco and the Hypocrisy of August 7th
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, August 3 2013, 21:21:07 (UTC)
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...it's here again...that day when assyrians honor only those among their number killed by Muslims.....

Most likely few of us remember who she is. She was a Chaldean
wife and mother whose apartment in Baghdad was struck by an
American "smart bomb". Her husband was mangled, she was
blinded, her three year old daughter killed and another daughter
ripped from her bleeding womb, dead.

Majdolin and her husband never made it to our list of martyrs…her
babies names were never read aloud at our martyr day festivals…no
outraged articles about American callousness…or indiscriminate
bombing of Iraqi civilians in order to win an illegal war fought
under false pretences for oil and to create an unending supply of
"terrorists"…mostly outraged parents and family, to ensure a
constant supply of tax dollars to those who would 'defend"
us….from enemy children….700,000 of whom this Christian caused
to starve to death…nothing of the kind appeared on any of our
webpages or broadcasts. They weren't mentioned in any churches
beyond the funeral but never after.

I wonder how she felt never hearing her family mentioned by us? I
wonder if she used to attend martyr festivities herself before, with
her husband and maybe their first daughter? Did they file into
church in Baghdad and light candles for martyrs? Did they listen to
the names read aloud with prayers for their souls? Did she listen as
fiery nationalists told of all the violence our innocent people
suffered? I wonder if she goes any more? Did she hear us "never
forget"?

It's hard to imagine what it must have felt like the first time she
noticed her babies weren't on the honor roll call of the dead…and
each August 7th it must hurt all over again, never mind at Christmas
or what were once birthdays, or could have been. On the day of the
martyrs it must be bitter to think her loss and the murder of her
children somehow don't count…aren't counted among our tragically
murdered…I wonder if she asks herself what the reason could be?

It is sort of strange…but then, in this insane nation we've made for
ourselves it makes a kind of horrible sense. You get a hint when
Aprim calls the murder of her babies, the one time he mentioned
it…"collateral damage"…and that in war, "these things happen".
Add that to the sorts of lies we tell about how Muslims and Islam
have been hunting us down for 1300 years and how Islam caused
our numbers to dwindle and that today Muslims are determined to
wipe us out etc. Don't forget to add that our nationalists begged for
this war against Iraq, parroting all of Bush's claims about the threat
from "Islamic Terrorists" and "jihad"…which we were only too
happy to validate by our "expierence". Even though people like
Jumblat have never been able to substantiate their claims.

When you put it all together the only distinguishing characteristic
between Majdolin Yonan's two innocent babies and the names on
our martyr's list is that her children were murdered by
Christians…while those we honor had the good fortune of being
killed by Muslims. Had a Muslim bomb exploded in that apartment
building who can doubt, not even Aprim and Jumblat, that the
Yonan babies would have been at the head of the list and way before
August 7th, Peter Jassim would have added their names to the list he
keeps for himself and articles would have appeared on aina and
zindalite decrying "cruel and inhumane Islam".

Just as Cindy Sheehan had to learn the hard way through the death
of her son in Iraq, that our government is not to be trusted until it
proves itself trustworthy…maybe Majdolin has learned something
about "Assyrian" Christians she never could have learned any other
way.



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