INTRODUCTION
This publication is not directed against any religion. It is not
designed to impose any religious views or beliefs on others. Nor is it
directed at any person or government but rather against undemocratic and
corrupt systems of government. Its main purpose is to demonstrate the
futility of maintaining justice under an authoritarian rule. The call
for Puritanism is as dangerous as totalitarianism. There is no such
thing as a perfect system on earth; yet a government based on sound
democratic principles is the nearest to such a system. Individual
freedom of expression, worship, association and assembly, constituted
within the framework of a secular civil code, guarantees the individual
the sacred freedom of choice.
Freedom of choice is the most sacred right of a citizen. Without
infringement on the democratic rights of others, a citizen, in a
democracy, may pursue what he or she may find most appropriately
accommodating, without fear of backlash. Authoritarianism impedes
progress and stifles life.
Governing laws should be secular, not sectarian. They should serve and
protect the individual and the weak against the strong rather than
subject him to racial and sectarian laws of a biased creed. What a
person believes in and how he serves his Creator is his business so long
as his practice is not disrespectful, dangerous or injurious to himself
or others. Imposition of one’s will, by coercion of others, is
repression. It is another form of persecution; it is unacceptable.
It is necessary to write and depict the stark reality of the appalling
conditions under which these indigenous peoples the world over, are
living. It would arouse the interest of certain readers to contribute
towards remedying the situation. The media is one of the most effective
methods of drawing world attention to their plight. Yet, oftentimes, the
media confines its column to praising achievements of the indigenous
within the scope of the government policy.
The media need to focus on the core of the issue, namely, the basic
rights of the indigenous peoples. These rights are mainly reconciliation
in the spirit of true justice, restoration of certain parts of their
native land and official apology by the government of the day for its
past and present mistreatment of the aborigines. Also, positive change
in the indifference and feet-dragging attitude of current governments,
as well as, monetary compensation and other forms of grants in kind and
services, to help utilize their potential. This will help transform the
natives into a successful community, with their own recognised
indigenous culture - at their own growing pace to complete the link with
the overall modern society of the multi-ethnic mix of the country
concerned.
Thousands of indigenous people and immigrant children, who were born in
their country of origin, have systematically been separated from their
families and alienated from their environment or dispersed and live away
from home. They miss the opportunity to experience the cultural climate,
lifestyle and environment of their homeland. They have been robbed of
their heritage and their culture is deliberately being destroyed.
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To the European who has not been in regular contact and association with
Muslim societies, these comments might sound contentious. To the
European on a working permit who has invested time and expertise in
Islamic countries or studied their culture in depth and with caution
will, for a moment, ponder and then agree with certainty to some aspects
of inequity present in the society. As a foreigner conscious of his
position, he is very careful not to be controversial. Islamic
governments and private agencies appreciate his efforts. They treat him
with respect and afford him with the necessary means of comfort and
security. They make him feel important and of high status. This is to
gag him from criticizing his surroundings. He turns a blind eye to the
inequities done against the indigenous Assyrians, Jews, Berber and
Egyptian Copts, across the whole spectrum of the Islamic society.
The European on a working permit in the host Islamic country, limits his
social life to his social class, advisedly, and his movement is
monitored. His contract over, he returns to his country of origin
leaving the past behind. He is unconcerned and seldom mentions the
racial and religious hatred and social gap separating the three
different religious groups, Jewish, Christian and Muslim from one
another. His success is measured by his safe return home and gainfully
completing his contract. In these circumstances, social injustice is not
of his concern.
The Western world should know that Christianity in Islamic countries,
especially in the Middle East, is being systematically reduced and
continues to diminish towards extinction. Should this hostile trend
continue, in another 20 to 30 years, Christianity in those countries
would be reduced close to naught. The prospect of the European, who has
taken the Middle East for granted, as a never-ending source of enriching
himself by selling out the indigenous nationals for his greed, will also
end.
Justly or unjustly, the European has amassed so much fortune in the form
of land and riches that the wealth he has accumulated will last him to
eternity. He has accumulated wealth at the expense of weaker nations of
the world and the dispossessed and aggrieved Assyrian, Jewish and
Christian natives of the Middle East. The European is as guilty as his
counterpart Muslim land grabber and oppressor. The European finds it
awkward and hypocritical to denounce undemocratic Islamic government
systems because of the similarity of his infamous past, which he
describes as glorious. To the European it was an era of adventure, not
exploitation and pillage. It was the golden age of discovery of new
trade routes and land for the crown, and enrichment of both the
government and private sectors, all in the interest of his country and
himself. The East and the West seem to have a distinct role to play,
each exclusive to it. The world, henceforth, relies on the European for
leadership in economic management and technological advancement. While
in the Middle East, the Muslims' ultimate goal is to bring the world
under one global religion and by doing so, Islam approaches the phase of
open confrontation with the West.
Islam does not confine its role of representing God on earth merely to
its believers. Carrying the sword, it extends its religious arm far and
wide beyond its realm. Claiming God's Vicegerency, Islam stretches its
arm to reach and punish people of different religions anywhere in the
world by using its Fatwa religious Edict as a lethal weapon, in
executing its pronounced sentence. It considers its religion the
all-supreme. It acts in opposition to all other world religions and in
defiance of all of them, including Judaism and Christianity, until Islam
gains primacy over all.
By protecting the Islamic faith and keeping it in the vanguard under its
theocratic and semi-secular government system, violence is not ruled
out. The three Islamic armed bodies, the Muta-we-ah, Militias and
Mujahideen are all known in the Islamic world as staunch supporters of
the Islamic edict (fatwa) and enforcers of the religious laws. The Muta-we-ah,
are the religious police, sworn enemies of Islamic lawbreakers. They
seek out, arrest and punish any person who breaks the Islamic Law,
regardless of his/her religion and nationality. They maintain discipline
and silence dangerous revisionists, exacting compliance with the Islamic
Shari’ah law. Militia troops keep the disenchanted non-Muslim natives at
bay. The Mujahideen (religious warriors for the sake of Allah) act as
public enforcers of the religious laws for such Islamic governments.
They are known in the Islamic world as the government's religious
subjugators. They are enforcers and executioners of the Islamic (Shari’ah)
Law.
The mujahideen being subjugators of the Islamic Shari’ah Law, Islamic
governments lack the resolving power to dissolve them. Jihad, being an
inseparable part of the Islamic code of practice for protecting and
maintaining Islam means dissolving them is against the Islamic doctrine.
In any Islamic country, one of the three religious armed bodies exists
openly as an auxiliary force to implement local religious laws outside
the government's secular laws. When government interests are threatened,
such armed groups crop up and launch campaigns of terror. They
specifically target local indigenous nationals, non-Muslim multi-ethnic
groups and foreigners. Such forces have existed since the advent of
Islam in the form of tribal recruits of militias and mujahideen as a
striking force under the leadership of their overlords, the tribal
chiefs and religious leaders. Later, these forces fell separate under
the authority of the Khalipha, and in modern times have become separate
segments of the Islamic government system. They crop up as the need
arises. They disappear and melt away only after they have executed the
(fatwa) religious edict and communicated to them clandestinely or
publicly depending on the strategy of the day.
Western democratic countries need to re-evaluate the precept of Islam
about other religions, and protection of the native inhabitants and
their culture from constant abuse. Islamic regimes maintaining Muta-we-ah,
Militias and Mujahideen, in a so-called secular constitutional
government system are culturally traditional and acceptable. While in
non-Islamic countries, it is out of character. In South America of the
Western Hemisphere, for example, militia groups are formed either in
support of the government of the day, or as guerrillas in demand of
democratic reforms. In the Abode of Peace of the Islamic states, these
three internationally unrecognised forces continue to disturb the peace
in the world among the ethnic groups and indigenous nationals. Their
ultimate is to force them accept the Islamic Shari’ah and abode by its
laws.
Islamic security and armed forces remain passive and mute, while their
militias intimidate non-Muslim groups and communities acting as bullies.
They do the dirty bidding of their government in compliance with their
hidden agenda of controlling and subduing the non-Muslim communities and
indigenous nationals, without the direct involvement of their
government. The Islamic government, in question, absolves itself from
any wrongdoing whether direct or indirect. It describes savagery of the
culprits as unfortunate, expressing lukewarm regret for their unseemly
actions. It is high time for the international community to reassess its
relationship with such hostile Islamic governments. Assyrians and
several other non-Muslim natives in the Middle East are suffering
terribly under Islam’s oppressive Shari’ah rule.
The world body of the United Nations should act responsibly, conduct
itself as the true representative of world society and administer true
justice to the aggrieved Assyrian disinherited nation. Applying the
Shari’ah Law in Saudi Arabia is traditionally acceptable. They are
Muslims. The Islamic religious law applies to their country. In fact,
Islamic religious law applies to all of the States of the Arab Peninsula
– and they go for it. By including the non-Muslim indigenous in their
system of the Islamic Shari’ah Law, it is a daring attempt of defiance
in preparation for future challenges to non-Muslim countries.
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Assyrians are ancient people of the Middle East. They are indigenous to
Assyria (Mesopotamia) of present-day northern Iraq. They have been
living in their homeland, with its capital city, Ninweh, for over six
millennia since the dawn of history. Iraq is the creation of Western
imperialism. To consolidate their hold on the Middle East, Western
countries, primarily those loyal to the Vatican, in their forefront
France and England, created dozens of Arab/Islamic self-proclaimed
‘government’ states. The Mandated powers, Britain and France, gave away
the legacy of the four (4) non-Muslim Provinces of the demised Ottoman
Empire, namely, Lebanon, Israel, Assyria and Egypt to Islamic nomadic
tent dweller Bedouins of the Arab Peninsula and the Oghus Turkish nomads
known as Seljuk.
To consolidate their long-term hold on the Middle East and Africa, the
West handed over the whole of the Middle East and North Africa to
peoples of only one-type religion ? to Islam. The four colonised
countries, then Provinces of the demised Ottoman Empire, namely, Egypt,
Israel, Assyria and Lebanon were historically non-Muslim. In essence,
they were Christians and Jews. They were known to Islam as AHL AL-THIMMA.
Non-Muslim adults were obliged to pay Jizya - the annual tax. In
reality, this payment was no more than an arbitrary fine, defamatory to
the Judeo-Christian faith. It was an on-going punishment for not
recanting their faith, and refusing to submit to Islam. There was no
excuse for default. The defaulter was systematically punished, in
accordance with the Islamic Shariah Law. Jews and Christians were muted.
Instead of helping them regain their freedom, the Western Allies divided
the four provinces among the Muslims. The West, in collaboration with
Islam, had already decided on their fate: Jews and Christians of the
Middle East were sentenced to a dismal fate. They were destined to a
slow process of being phased out to total extinction. Their national
identity and name of their countries: Israel, Israelite and Assyria,
Assyrian, both nation and people, were annulled. Both became property
and under the direct and total control and rule of Islam. Allah is for
the Muslim; so should the Temple on Mount Zion and Jerusalem be. In
addition, Jonah’s Cathedral, in Ninweh - Mosul (since long converted to
a Mosque called Nabi Younis - in Arabic; Omra D’ Mar Yonan - in
Assyrian) obligingly remains Muslim.
Other than the indigenous Assyrians and Christian inhabitants, of the
Middle East, with the exception of the Mandaeans and Yezidis, the rest
are mainly occupiers. They are invaders that have forced themselves onto
other people’s countries of the Middle East. Like spongers and
parasites, they live on the blood and sweat of others. Peace to Islam
(in their Abode of Peace States) means that their next-door neighbour
eventually has to abide by the Islamic law, or be reverted to pay the
Jizya, or some other sort of payment, for remaining in his non-Muslim
faith. They begin by extorting Jizya and end up stripping the non-Muslim
of his property and all his assets, warning the Jizya payer to convert
to Islam. Otherwise, leave or be killed.
In the immediate aftermath of WWI, the West created Islamic states
against the will of the native inhabitants of Mesopotamia and the Middle
East. The newly created Islamic States were determined to adopt the
aggressive iron fist policy. They applied the Islamic Shari’ah Law to
expand their Al-Da’awa (Propagation of Islam) Mission through violence
amongst the native inhabitants of the region. Western colonialists acted
largely as they pleased. Before their withdrawal, the Western powers
helped replace their colonial rule by the new system of neo-Islamic
colonialism. Rulers of the newly established Islamic states became
ultra-nationalists to the point that ultimately, Wahhabism, a fanatical
creed, surfaced through Al-Qaeda, advocating the (Al-Da’awa) Mission,
the call to Islam, with open threats and acts of terrorism.
To ensure success of the plot, partners in crime did what Imperial Rome
did to Carthage, in 211 BC. Similarly, in WWI, the warring nations
literally burned Anatolia and razed it to the ground, applying the
scorched earth policy. This ended the physical existence of the Seven
Churches in Anatolia by cutting Christian Orthodoxy off its roots and
shrinking it to near disappearance in Asia Minor. Now, as it seems, the
world being in a restive mood, is nearing the last remaining Chapters of
the Book of Revelations, from the New Testament. Has religion been
wrested, all this time and run by a “Foolish Shepherd”, and now nearing
its end (Zechariah 11: 15-17). And what next, (Revelations 16:16 and 17:
5-10), - an attempt on Jerusalem - God’s Footstool, - for its
destruction? They surely will reap what they sowed. (Zechariah 14: 3).
The United Nations Organization needs to exert more effort and take the
indigenous issue more seriously. It should extend its representation
over the rapid deterioration of this particular problem. In Islamic
countries, basic human rights are completely ignored with little concern
of the world’s body of nations. This tragic situation seems to have been
in existence for decades, if not centuries. In addition to Israel, it is
spreading fast, reaching crisis point in such as Turkey, Lebanon, Syria,
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Indonesia and The Philippines. U.N.’s attention and
deterrent course of action would at least bring the unjust practices
into focus and expose the coercive measures used by terrorist groups in
co-opt states, in forcing the native inhabitants to succumb to the rigid
Islamic Shari’ah Law.
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