According to the Assyrian International News Agency:

Can anyone verify this plight? Where is the solid evidence?

Firstly does the Assyrians today have anything to do with a political entity thousands of years ago, do they carry the blood stained hands of their Leaders before? So if some Assyrian is whinging is it relevant for you to mention this, does it have any significance?

The first of us, our father Prophet Adam, he sinned then repented, yet are we to blame, no,… because no soul shall carry the burden of anothers.

Although wanting to believe/hope in the varacity of Muslims rallying in support of other minorities…, I know for a FACT that, for the most part, their VAST majority could/would NOT dare do so, in public, for FEAR of mainstream’s violent reaction against them (KILLING them!!!).

Therefore, based on that, but-most importantly in the photo-based on the DELIBERATELY-FADED background (the man sitting “behind” the banner & the sign he’s carrying or, the people on the left-hand side of it are all BLURRED) my question is-if such an already non-mainstream/controversial or confrontational act (of the 2 women in the photo) is already taking place (revealing “truth” as it is-without covering their identities, for fear for their lives, through retribution of opponents) AUTHENTICALLY then, WHY COVER the identities of the OTHER people in the photo? Also, WHY cover the WRITING in the banner that the sitting man is carrying (although his face is already covered by the banner)?

Above all; bottom line: I DISPISE the abuse of advances of technology (photo DOCTORING) by UNSCRUPULOUS people working on propagating LIES & promoting their own PERSONAL AGENDAS…!!! If you are a TRUTH-teller, having NOTHING to lose/hide: show it as IT IS (UNmodified!)-& let the viewer be the judge of it (if you are already posting something publicly)!!!

And here’s MY lesson in CAUTION: BEWARE of ANYTHING you see/watch! As we “progress” in technoglogy-apparently, so does human’s ability to counterfeit to a point of “pefection” (where one cannot tell the difference between the original & fake anymore! Not the case with this photo here, though…)!

OVERALL, I would empathize with all human suffering & hoping & praying for more acceptance, compasssion, love toward the other (the different-whether religiusly, ethnically, sexually, etc…).

Yet, as a Jew, I can forgive but cannot/would not forget the fact that the Assyrian Empire was one of the empires to have EXILED the Jews off their lands (in Biblical times)! So, before speaking of being understood/acceptedd-one has to learn how to do same for/on one’s OWN, in the spirit of: “clean one own’s backyard before asking others to clean theirs”…(goes for world politics, ethnic relkations, etc…as much today as in past-or actually, becasue & in light of past/hostory)!!!

I am sympathetic to all Iraqis, regardless of religious beliefs who have been affected by the invasion of Iraq.

I am sympatheric to all American soldiers who have been duped into fighting a war that was not necessarry. The mainstream media did not not do enough to educate the public about the long relationship betweem Iraq and the U.S nor did they do enough to question the honesty of the U.S. governnment’s reasons for wanting to invade Iraq.

I think you need to address the American Christians who have dropped bombs on Iraq, destroyed its infrastructure, killed thousands…

Could you at least say something — anything — even vaguely sympathetic about the Assyrian Christian community?

I question your sincerity to help the Chrisitans of Iraq, when you do not want to address the destruction and chaos that the United States has caused in Iraq.

I will be happy to address that issue, Randall: can you point me to the article discussing it? I prefer not to do it here since that isn’t the topic of Andre’s article

The world survived 7/7/07 and all the predictions of doom and gloom. You can sit back, have a cup of tea or your favorite beverage, and read some great articles. If you must choose only one article, let it be…