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This is an educational website presenting a unique worldview that is geared toward goodwill for all those who value knowledge, freedom and toleration. From the beginning of creation, people who sought peace proliferated, those who promoted war perished. The ability to reflect on one's own genesis is the characteristic of every human being. This ability gives the human being a sense of historical perspective. Knowledge expands this perspective. Freedom allows the human being to grow in wisdom. Toleration is the fruit of this wisdom. The powers that condemn knowledge, curtail freedom, and breed intolerance are doomed to fail.

However, history teaches us that allowing these powers to prosper unimpeded eventually leads to war and destruction, innocent people are killed and the recovery is slow, especially in this day and age. The proliferation of nuclear weapons is a danger to all civilized human beings. It is the responsibility of all civilized nations to limit the use of nuclear science to the development of energy for peaceful purposes.

The world is divided into many religions. Religious differences often lead to intolerance. Yet religious freedom is an integral part of the freedom of all people. It is the responsibility of all civilized nations to guard the rights of all individuals to exercise their personal freedom. Most nations have their own beliefs and practices.

Cultural toleration is based on knowledge and wisdom. All nations should respect the cultures of their neighbors. Toleration based on knowledge and communication, freedom based on respect for other cultures and religions -- these lead to peace and goodwill for all humanity. Discussing these subjects leads to sharp observations, critical opinions, and arguments; but this is a natural process of communication.

The Scriptures

For the last fourteen years, I have been translating the Scriptures from the Ancient Aramaic language directly into English. These are the original Scriptures recorded by the Jewish scribes. In the process of translating, I have come to realize that the Scriptures were never properly translated, the reason being that the Western translators assumed that the New Testament was originated in Greek and that the Old Testament was originated in Hebrew. Neither of these two assumptions are correct.

The Scriptures were recorded in Ashurit, which was the language spoken in Nineveh and Ashur. This is the language that the Galileans spoke as well, as it was the language of their ancestors who had come from Nineveh. These were the people that Jonah the Prophet had preached to. It was the dialect that Jesus also spoke.

The denial of this fact is simply a prejudice of the Western theologians who wished to discredit the Ancient Church of the East, the Church that had compiled the entire Scriptures. When the Roman Emperor Constantine adopted Christianity as the state religion in the 4th Century AD, he decided to wrest the authority of the Scriptures from the Ancient Church of the East and the Ashurai people who had safeguarded it for centuries.

Later the Roman Church decided that it was more prestigious to claim that Christianity was a Western religion. Thus when the Muslims conquered the Holy Lands in the 6th Century AD, the Roman Church and the Europeans fought the Muslims over Jerusalem and the occupation of the Holy Lands. Incredibly this situation has not yet been resolved, because this is the same nightmare we are facing today. The troubles we are having with Islamic Extremists are mostly due to the misrepresentations of Western Christianity, who insist that the New Testament was originated in Greek and that "the kingdom" was taken from the Jews and given to the Gentiles, a name they fabricated themselves. There is no such term as "Gentiles" in the Scriptures. The word is "nations," which refers to all the nations that were not Jewish. And "the kingdom" was not taken from the Jewish people, as they were the ones who preached it and bore testimonty to it to all the nations. Thus my translation of the Scriptures may be a ray of hope for those who seek the truth about Jesus and the Faith in His Name.

September Eleven Era

With the rampage of the terrorists against all that is decent in Iraq, most of the Democrats in the Senate are clamoring to bring the troops home. With some Republican Senators beginning to voice their dissatisfaction with the progress of freedom and democracy in Iraq, the betrayal of the Iraqi people and ultimately the entire region is now openly being considered. If it was not for George W. Bush, Iraq would not have been liberated in the first place. If Iraq is abandoned, the whole region will be swarming with terrorists. Thus with the rise of American traitors in Congress, the US is headed for disaster if the American people should fail to elect another genuinely Christian President in the next election. I hope and pray that the American people will continue to elect Conservative leaders and representatives who will safeguard American values.

American Values

There is no doubt that the US is the biggest Super Power in the world today. The US did not have to wage war to achieve this status. That is why the US is not a world empire and has no desire to be an empire, despite foreign propaganda. The rise of the US to this level has been mostly due to a sense of fairness which the American people believe in and exercise. This sense of fairness is a blessing of their Christian heritage. It has been an inspiration to all immigrants who flocked to America.

The Ashurai

Christian values emerged out of Mesopotamia and the Hebrew traditions. The original Scriptures were recorded in Mesopotamia for the first time. Judaism and Christianity emerged out of the Near East. The Islamic rise in the 7th Century suppressed and eventually drove out the Christians and the Jews from the region. The Jews returned in 1948, after the Genocide inflicted on them by the Nazis; but the Ashurai people were not able to return.

Even though they fought alongside the Allies in both World Wars, the Ashurai people were never accorded the status of a legitimate ally. They were relegated to minority status in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon, and were never allowed to re-settle in their original homelands. With the United Nations primarily concerned with the rights of the Third World countries, the Ashurai people's rights are never discussed in the UN. The UN will always be a total failure because of that.

Documentary Film

The great museums of the world, especially the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, and the British Museum in London, England, house the great monuments and artifacts of Ashurai history. Mesopotamia is were humanity began. Without the Ashurai people there would be no civilization. Ashurai art, literature and science are the proof of that. They are a great resource for documentary filmmakers and world historians.