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Token Christian Offers Hope
Jul. 25th, 2003 11:19 amInterviewed by a Paris paper, the one Assyrian in the Iraqi Provisional Government Council looks forward to a secular Iraq:
"We will benefit from the same legal rights enjoyed by the two main ethnic groups, the Arabs and Kurds. So the Assyrian-Chaldeans will be recognized with the same title, as a nation."
If the American army of occupation can hand Iraq over to the United Nations before the constitution of a secular state is adopted there may be a chance that secularism will not be discredited as something imposed by force. And the sooner Mr. Bush can hand it over, the better his chances for the elections.
At any rate, the occupiers are not so tied to the Kurds as to help them keep the Assyrians down; this was greatly to be feared, and I am somewhat less anxious about the matter than I was.
"We will benefit from the same legal rights enjoyed by the two main ethnic groups, the Arabs and Kurds. So the Assyrian-Chaldeans will be recognized with the same title, as a nation."
If the American army of occupation can hand Iraq over to the United Nations before the constitution of a secular state is adopted there may be a chance that secularism will not be discredited as something imposed by force. And the sooner Mr. Bush can hand it over, the better his chances for the elections.
At any rate, the occupiers are not so tied to the Kurds as to help them keep the Assyrians down; this was greatly to be feared, and I am somewhat less anxious about the matter than I was.