Orientalische Christen in den USA wehren sich gegen Vereinnahmung...

verfasst von Theo Stuss, 13.10.2001, 15:08

...durch islamische, arabische Lobbies, von denen sie nicht vertreten werden wollen. Der Artikel beklagt, daß bereits etliche orientalische Christen, die sich als Aramäer, Syrer und Kopten bezeichnen Opfer, von Gewalttaten geworden sind, die Amerikaner gegen sie verübt haben.

Zitat:
"The first victim of such hate crime was Mr. Adel Karas a Christian Copt from Egypt, who immigrated to the USA to escape the attacks of Moslem Fundamentalist on Christian Copts in Egypt, and ironically his life was ended by the irresponsible action of an American Christian who mistakenly thought that he was an Arab Moslem. Copts are the descendants of the ancient Egyptian Pharos and are not ethnically Arabs."

Hier der ganze Artikel:

Written by Concerned Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac on 30 Sep 2001 21:17:03:

To Everyone:

Time magazine (October 1st issue) in the article titled"As American As..." by David van Biema on page 72. In it, there is a chart (Muslims and Arabs in America) describing Arab Americans and their various religions. In it, they lumped Chaldeans/Syriacs/Assyrians under the Orthodox rite. Worse than that, this makes it sound as if Syriacs/Assyrians/Chaldean are just Christian Arabs!

The source for this misinformation is the Arab American Institute. Please pick up a copy of the magazine (Bin Laden on cover), read that chart, and go to Time.com and write a short letter to the editor pointing out the error, and express your outrage on lumping Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs with Arabs and terrorists.

Yesterday during the AATV Arab American T.V. program (aired from Los Angeles), its host Mr. Bohtor aired several protest phone calls that his program received from Coptic Christians who called him to express their outrage about the way his T.V. program labeled Mr. Adel Karas as an Arab in their previous program. (Mr. Karas was a Coptic Christian who was the victim of a hate crime; he was murdered couple of weeks ago by someone who mistook him for an Arab Moslem). The callers protested and said that Mr. Karas was a Coptic Christian not an Arab, and Copts are not Arabs, they are native Egyptians, and they don’t want the TV to promote that he was an Arab at all. After those calls Mr. Bohtor started using the term Jaliaytuna (our community), instead of Al-Jaliya Al-Arabiyya (the Arabic community), he also started using the term the Arabic speaking community rather than the Arabic community.

The Syriac Orthodox community although they officially changed their name to Syriac last summer, yet the signs on their churches in the USA still carry the name Syrian, and that Syrian name on the sign could mislead some uneducated Americans to associate them with the Syrian Arabs, it is very important that the Syriacs remove the Syrian sign that are on their churches, and replace that with Syriac.

In order to reduce the heat on them, the Arab American Institute (AAI) is trying to drag all Middle Easterners into this mess that was cause by some deranged Moslem Arab fundamentalists. And the Time magazine had blindly followed their false claims, which further jeopardized the safety of the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, and Copts. We will hold any organization, or media institute financially and criminally liable to any consequences that are resulted from their promotion of misinformation that leads to unjust retaliation and victimization of our Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac & Coptic people, if they entice it then they are liable! The Arab American Institute (AAI), enticed the burning of the Assyrian-American Church in Chicago and they have to pay reparations.

I believe that the religious leaders of all Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Churches should be given the same choice that our President George Bush gave the world by saying: Are you with us or against us? And we can add: Are you with the terrorists or against the terrorists? Are you Arabs or non-Arabs? And lets get a written statement from them.

I suggest that the webmasters of the Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac websites edit and polish the draft below and post it on their sites and forums, and set a protest letter, where people could click and e-mail such letter to express their outrage to anyone who associates our Assyrian/Chjaldean/Syriac & Coptic people. Such letter should be sent to all Arab organizations, embassies, the US media, and specifically to Arab organizations and governments who loosely label us as Christian Arabs (ironically while they ban our language and discriminate against us in the Middle East):


Proposed Draft:

Clarification & Educational Campaign Addressed to the American Public

Conducted by the Coalition of Non-Arab & Non-Moslems Middle Eastern Americans

Since the unfortunate tragedy that hit us on September 11, 2001, a sense of fear, hate and paranoia spread, where many Americans reacted by attacking any person who looks like an Arab or as a Moslem (and it all is based on his own concept of who is who). This press release is to clarify, and educate the American public that not every one that happens to have dark hair and a dark tan is an Arab or a Moslem.

In America there are large communities of Assyrians, Chaldeans Syriacs, Arameans, Armenians, and Copts who are Christians, those people are the indigenous people of the Middle East, and although they come from countries that are currently ruled by Arabs, yet they are neither Arabs nor Moslems. Those people had lived in the Middle East long before the arrival of the Arabs. However they might share certain common Middle Eastern looks with Arabs, but so do many Middle Eastern Israelis who look like Arabs too. In fact many Mediterranean people share similar physical features too, a Greek, Italian, Spanish person can easily be mistaken for an Arab Moslem and visa versa. Add to that there are some Arab Moslems who have Blond hair and blue eyes, and although they are not that many of those, the fact remains that they do exist, and a blond Moslem Arab terrorist might slip unnoticed. Should the paranoia be expanded to include blond haired and blue-eyed Europeans?

The Assyrians, Chaldeans Syriacs, Arameans, Armenians, and Copts did not convert to Christianity on the hands of the European and American missionaries during the last century, nor on the hands of the Crusaders during the middle ages. On the contrary, those indigenous Christian people of the Middle East were the earliest Christian communities in the world, they adopted the Christian faith long before the western world did, and in fact they did that while Europe was still practicing pagan rites.

The Assyrians, Chaldeans Syriacs, Arameans, to this date they still use the Aramaic language that Jesus spoke in their liturgy. Those people went through a series of massacres and ethnic cleansing, the most recent ones took place in 1915, 1955.

The first victim of such hate crime was Mr. Adel Karas a Christian Copt from Egypt, who immigrated to the USA to escape the attacks of Moslem Fundamentalist on Christian Copts in Egypt, and ironically his life was ended by the irresponsible action of an American Christian who mistakenly thought that he was an Arab Moslem. Copts are the descendants of the ancient Egyptian Pharos and are not ethnically Arabs.

A week ago St. John Church of the East was the victim of yet another hate crime where it was torched by someone who mistook the Assyrians for Arabs.

The Assyrians, Chaldeans Syriacs, Arameans, Armenians, and Copts are different than Arabs ethnically and linguistically, although some of them were forced to adopt the Arabic language due to the discrimination and the banning of their native languages by Arabs who control and run the governments in the Middle East.

The following are the Christian Church denominations of those communities (listed alphabetically), the followers of those churches are NOT Arabs, and NOT Moslems:

· Armenian Catholic Church
· Armenian Orthodox Church
· Assyrian Evangelical Church
· Assyrian Presbyterian Church
· Assyrian Protestant Church
· Chaldean Catholic Church
· Church of the East
· Coptic Catholic Church
· Coptic Orthodox Church
· Syriac Catholic Church
· Syriac Maronite Church
· Syriac Orthodox Church

Many of the followers of those churches were and still are being discriminated and terrorized by Moslem fundamentalists in the Middle East, and those who came to the USA tried to escape such persecution. It is unfortunate that some Americans who are not aware of this to hit them with a second whammy by venting their anger at those peaceful law abiding citizens.


This is what the Arab America Institute is falsely promoting:

MUSLIMS AND ARABS IN AMERICA
Not all Muslims are Arab; not all Arabs are Muslim. Here are some interesting facts
The number of Muslims in America has soared in the past 30 years...
1970 500,000 2001 6-7 million
...and a large portion of them are African America.
African American 30% to 40% Arab American 25% to 30% South Asian 25% to 30%
The majority of Arab Americans are Christian
Catholic 42% Muslim 23% Orthodox 23% Protestant 12%
...and are heavily concentrated in urban areas
Los Angeles 283,400 Detroit 219,800 New York 162,700 N.E. New Jersey 92,100 Chicago 91,300
Includes Antiochian, Syrian, Greek, Coptic, Chaldean and Assyrian rites
Source: Arab American Institute


Notice how they included Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syrians as Arabs. Just look at the numbers, the majority are the Christians, they are here in America because they escaped Moslem persecutions in their homelands.

African American 30% to 40% Arab American 25% to 30% South Asian 25% to 30%. The majority of Arab Americans are Christian Catholic 42% Muslim 23% Orthodox 23% Protestant 12%.

Here is what the numbers translate to:

Out of the 6,000,000 to 7,000,000, which the Arab America Institute (and the Arab Lobby) in the USA claim as their people/followers!!!!!

Total Christians = 77% (i.e. population of: 4,620,000 - 5,390,000).

Arab Moslems are 25% - 30% of the remaining numbers = 345,000 to 402,500 on the low end, to 414,000 to 483,000 on the high end. (i.e. the number of Arab Moslems is 7.5% to 9% of the number of Middle Eastern Christians in the USA).

I can’t imagine that the Arabs are running their Arab lobby and speaking on behalf of 6-7 million followers in the USA, when in fact the Non-Arab-Middle Eastern-Christians are the majority (unfortunately we are lead like sheep by the Arabs).

With 4.5 - 5.5 million Middle Eastern Christians, we can have our own lobby in the USA, without the need of any Arab Moslem.







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