“We
will never agree to live as dhimmis”
Syriac
orthodox archbishop
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Nikodimos Daoud Sharf
In a televised interview, Mar Nikodimos Daoud Sharf
/ Diocese of Mosul and Kurdistan region, talked about the situation of Christians after displacement on Mayadeen TV, August 18,
2014 :
-We don`t even have knives, how can we
defend ourselves if we don`t have weapons of any kind ?
-when these (ISIS) takfirists come to get
you, they reject the other and say that they want to die in order to get their
72 virgins and eternal boys, we don`t have concepts of this type .
-We have pens, paper, culture and
knowledge, we don`t have anything to fight with . A Christian cannot live where
law doesn`t prevail, we can live in a place governed by law, where there is no
law to protect us and guarantee our rights we cannot live because we have no
weapons, and we weren`t brought up by our religion, society, and family on the
culture of blood, killing, and plunder . We don`t have such a culture you have
to understand this, the others do have this culture .
-We defend ourselves against these
beasts, they are beasts ! We are not beasts, we represent true humanity, we
don`t know how to slaughter, we don`t know how to kill ! All we know is how to
write and how to instill culture in those around us; just as we instilled
culture in the Arabs and Muslims in the past when they come here as conquerors;
and we don`t know if we should call them conquests or raids !
-When they entered our lands, we the
Syriac Christians in particular instilled culture in then history will curse us
for educating them and for translating books for them; we have been instilling
culture in them to this very day, but they sold us out for nothing . The
countries for which we were willing to die spat us out . We will never agree to live as dhimmis,
as I have said time and again, a dhimmi is a slave and will never to be
dhimmis, anyone who agree to be dhimmis is better off dead .
