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history, experiences under Islamic rule, leadership and Assyrian
aspirations to nationhood.
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Indigenous Peoples
Under the Rule of Islam
by Frederick P. Isaac
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A Forgotten People?
World Council and international organizations are reluctant to
resurrect the Assyrian case - the case of the forgotten people. The
situation continues to deteriorate since the Assyrians have no one
to turn to, and no one seems to want to acquaint himself with their
plight. They do not want to understand or concern themselves with
the Assyrian issue. To them the Assyrian case seems to have been
classified as low priority. In their view, there are other more
important issues to tackle first. Like Palestine, Cyprus, East
Timor, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Rwanda and Bosnia and scores of other
conflicts, which if spanned with the time of the Assyrian issue, are
all considered new and have just recently emerged.
By the time one conflict is resolved, like South Africa for
instance, two or three other new conflicts emerge. They crop up and
surface like poisonous mushrooms. They contaminate the world with
their wanton action of violence, destroying property and shedding
innocent blood. While the world is in turmoil, the Assyrian case is
buried under a pile of unresolved problems of the world. Sitting
there at the bottom of the tray, or shelved somewhere in the
archives gathering dust. Since the days of the defunct League of
Nations, the Assyrian dossier is forgotten under an ever-increasing
number of new cases. Most of the pending files are marked ‘high
priority’, except that of the Assyrian, with little chance of the
Assyrian legal documents ever being located and the Assyrian issue
raised, offered for discussion and given a fair hearing. The apathy
of the UN to the Assyrian question is a reflection of its
incompetence and kowtow to the Arab Islamic influence and duplicity
of Western powers.
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