The Assyrian Dream

Verfasst von marianne brückl am Di, 2008-07-22 13:18. The Assyrian Dream Freedom on native ground, a life in peace and the preservation of their historically valuable language – this is the dream of every Assyrian. But expulsion and fear of torture or death is destroying this dream. The people who populated the Osmanian Empire for thousands of years are being expelled from their native territories or tortured, are being forced to pay protection money, and worst of all, they are being executed in the cruellest manner since 1915. These facts can be considered from either the political or religious perspective. The disastrous effect of the interaction between politics and religion has been illustrated once more by the case of the two Israeli soldiers who were abducted in 2006. It is a fact that politically stirred terror is much... [read full story]