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 more powerful than peace. Terrorists who have killed others are set free to carry out further killings. To...

How can it happen, that people ignore the signs of history, where minorities always were hunted, tortured and murdered? This is a question concerning everybody on our globe. To Islamists, Christians, Buddhists, and all the other religious groups. "Human Rights" is a word, that is indirectly defined in each religious dogma, no matter if it is the Bible, the Koran or another one. But this would mean acceptance and tolerance between the majorities and minorities, no matter what kind of religion (if they have one) they practice. History has shown, that people did not learn from the cruel things that happened in human history, and all the troubles that came over these, who lost one or even more of their family. In consideration of the cruel deeds that happened in North Iraq, it is unbelieveable that this is a fact of our present time: “A 2 month old infant kidnapped, beheaded, roasted and returned to its parents on a bed of rice. 14...