Falsification and Distortion of History
Islamic governments of the Abode of Peace imply that remnants of ancient
kingdoms and vanquished peoples in the Middle East have long assimilated
with existing Arab population of present-day countries. They allege that
even though their small number had historical links to their ancestral
land, they are no longer qualified to claim it. Islamic states allege
that the indigenous nationals were residues of ancient kingdoms, reduced
to insignificant minorities by prior conquests. Over time, they lost
their genuine identity, and have since been fused into the Arab-Islamic
crucible melting pot and assimilated with nationalities of other
countries, locally and abroad, and become extinct, like the Assyrians,
Jews, Copts and Berber. This is the rhetoric of the Islamic States of
the Abode of Peace. They cherish the illusion of deceptive notions to
the point that many historians and academics go along with this fallacy.
Many historians and scholars have written numerous books and presented
papers, demonising the Assyrians as bellicose, greedy and cruel. Assyria
is often described as a warlike machine, void of human feelings and
vanquished. Those that have survived are denied their Assyrian
nationality. Even their faith as Christian is denied to them. Assyrians
are called Nestorian heretic. They overwhelm Assyria’s contribution to
humanity, especially in mathematics, trade, and urbanisation, yet they
degrade Assyria’s achievements to an insignificant phase of ancient
history of ambiguity. The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of ‘THE MIDDLE EAST
AND NORTH AFRICA’ is just one example of how some enthusiasts write
history. Eighty-two academic contributors participated in its
publication. Native inhabitants of Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Assyria and
Egypt are either cut off from their roots, or limping, on the verge of
being overmastered by Islamic invaders with no hope of survival,
destined to oblivion, by the zealot Arab, Turk and Kord nomads. Their
rich history is undermined; it is nowhere to be seen or appreciated save
in museums and locked up libraries and monasteries. Their history is
suppressed and their relics systematically destroyed. (POLK, William R.,
1991).
Since dismemberment of Assyria and removal of (Mesopotamia) from the
physical map of the World’s Atlas by the defunct League of Nations,
after World War I, Assyria was declared extinct. Her surviving people
are taken to be vanquished. This is a sham in order to erode further the
Assyrian identity and claims. No academic study has yet been done on the
Assyrian contemporary history, in depth. As a result, Assyria’s history
is suppressed. It is associated with Islamic history, touching on it as
an insignificant minority subject. The Abode of Peace States allege that
the indigenous inhabitants of the Middle East have become subjects of
the countries in which they now happen to live whether by choice or not.
They claim that the Assyrians were drawn into the mainstream of the
domineering rulers during the Roman Empire and subsequent Arab and
Ottoman Turk invaders, who forced upon the indigenous ‘remnants’ the
Islamic rule of law, and have since succumbed to the inevitable. The
remaining indigenes in the Middle East are living at the edge of the
Islamic sword and anathema of the Vatican. However, though rival enemies
of each other, Papacy and Islam are partners in crime against the
Assyrian Nation and The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the
East. Assyrians are not recognised. Statistically they are not
officially recognised as a people on their own. They are no longer known
as a nation or ‘a people without a country’ but as subjects of the
country in which they reside such as Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. They
were forcibly evicted from their homeland and dispersed. They were
banished and scattered among the Arab, Kordish and Turkish populations
with a view to their gradual assimilation to phase out existence of
their Assyrian national identity.
Not recognizing them as Assyrian nationals and denying their right to
their historical homeland, Islamic States of the Abode of Peace suppress
all attempts of the Assyrian people by keeping them at bay so as not to
expose Islam’s hideous crime. The Assyrian racial identity was
officially invalidated. With the dismemberment of Mesopotamia, Assyria
as a province of the former Ottoman Empire, with its one and a half
million people then, were forcibly evicted from their native land. Those
who resisted were eliminated. The rest were scattered all over the
Middle East region. They were banished or fused with the neighbouring
Islamic states. In the eyes of the world, the Assyrians are extinct.
Israel, Assyria and Mesopotamia – the whole of the Middle East was
handed over to Islam. Assyria was dismembered and termed Islamic. Most
of their towns and villages were pillaged. Their churches, schools and
institutions were destroyed. The defunct League of Nations failed to
meet its commitment. Over sixty years on, its successor, the United
Nations Organization, is still as if in sombre contemplation of the
issue.
The Ministry of Education of Iraq has officially removed, from its
curriculum, all textbooks, relating to Assyria. Arabs, in Iraq,
allegedly relate their ancient history to Mesopotamia earlier than the
Assyrian period by connecting their culture to the ancient city of Uruk
by changing the name of Assyria to Iraq – a derivation from Uruk. In
addition, the Arabs have recently included, in their preamble, the Kords,
a nomadic people of non-existent city-state status, connecting their
history to Mesopotamia. As for Assyria’s cruelty, compared with some
leaders of the twentieth century, the Assyrians were more
disciplinarians and humane than the butchers of the past two World Wars,
proved to be. Has the UN Agency UNESCO or other humanitarian
organizations given a thought to re-classify the Assyrians as internal
and external displaced refugees? Considering them locals, the Assyrians
are denied the status of refugees. They are not entitled to UN
assistance; the Palestinians are. Islam usurps Assyrian and Israeli
lands and says this is justice.
Islam denied The Israelis and Assyrians the right to return to their
historical homeland. Their racial identity was officially invalidated.
With the dismemberment of Mesopotamia, Assyria, then a province of the
Ottoman Turkey, was lost in an expanding world of Islam. In the eyes of
the world, the Assyrians are extinct. Israel, Assyria, Mesopotamia – the
whole of the Middle East was handed over to the Muslims and declared
Arab-Islamic. The Assyrians have since been categorised as alien
residents.
Connecting ancient Mesopotamia’s culture to the nomadic Kords - an alien
race to Assyria proper, is a misfit and a sick joke. It leaves a gap of
ambiguity and prejudice against Assyria’s history. Arabs ascribe
Mesopotamia’s culture, before Islam, to their culture. Arabs connect
their lineal descent to the Sumerians, or to non-Assyrian neighbouring
ancient city-states and kingdoms to diminish Assyria’s importance in
world history. Such erroneous statements are usually endorsed by many
European institutions and archaeologists, which further suppress the
truth and falsify Assyria’s rich history, in favour of others.
Destinies change; history does not. It remains as a mirror reflecting a
nation’s past. Denying Assyria her rightful place in world society is a
crime that will eventually backfire in the culprits’ faces and pay a
heavy price for their greed.
Bosnia, backed by the Islamic States of the Abode of Peace, is behaving
in the same manner. It is reviving the call to jihad with encouragement
from the ever-growing fundamentalist groups in Turkey. Fomentation of
this resurgence is taking place in the occupied sector of Eastern
Cyprus. It is their safe haven, as is Kosovo to the Albanian rebels and
Islamic States of the Abode of Peace to the Arab mujahideen.
Taking other people’s land by force contravenes international
conventions. The key issue here is Muslim seizure and usurpation of
other people’s land. When or by whom, yesteryear or centuries ago, by
Arabs or Turks, is irrelevant. The Israelis and the Assyrians are the
indigenous owners of their traditional lands. They have all the
legitimate right to retrieve their land through the UN, The
International Court of Justice at The Hague and through other legal
means.
Since banishment of the Jews from Israel by the Romans in 71 and 130-31
AD, it became traditional, by the succeeding conquerors and foreign
occupiers, to debar the Jews from frequenting their holy shrines and
institutions. They had to buy their way in, back to their ancestral land
(Gilbert, 1998: p30-31). They imposed restriction on their travel to
Jerusalem and prevented them from returning to their home, Israel. The
Jews were excluded from the Temple Mount, also known as Mount Moriah.
The Temple Mount was out of bounds to the Jews. Since the capture of
Jerusalem by the Arabs in 638 AD, Islam has systematically destroyed
Jewish and Christian shrines. It incorporated the Temple Mount into its
religious assets by first building an Islamic sacred shrine on it, then
the Dome of the Rock and in the eighth century Al-Haram Al-Sharif of Al-Aqsa
Mosque. With the passage of time, the Temple Mount became the sole
property of Islam and under the exclusive control of Arab Muslims. The
Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque are both built on the ruins of the
outer courtyards of Solomon’s Temple.
In 1881, the Ottoman central government, in a decree, banned the Jews
from entering the so-called Palestine. Jewish pilgrims were allowed to
enter the country for worship only and for no more than 30 days. In as
recently as 1939, a British White Paper restricted Jewish immigration to
their occupied home. Palestinians consider the Israeli settlers in their
Biblical Land illegal, alien to their home Israel; and yet they consider
any Muslim resident in Palestine as legitimate Arab national,
(Pryce-Jones: p187). The Assyrians are treated in the same fashion in
their occupied region of the Middle East - they are categorized as
either aliens or Arabs.
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