Syriac nationalism

The term Assyrismus ( in English " Assyrism " or " Assyrianism " ) is a variant of the Christian Mesopotamian nationalism, which is in contrast to pan-Arabism and the end of the 19th century began.

Assyrian nationalism

The Assyrismus as ideology sees itself as a result of social, historical, religious and political ideas and principles based on the Syriac language, a dialect of Aramaic, which should not be confused with the Syrian dialect of Arabic.

Both in terms of confessionalism, ie membership in different churches (see Syrian Christians and " Assyrians " ), as well as the interests of the governments of the young national states of Nahostens pushes the Assyrismus obstacles.

On the one decomposes the current Syrian language in different dialects. On the other hand mastered by the lack of an independent state, as well as flight, expulsion and persecution by no means all that we impute the Assyrian ethnic group, this language. Here, especially in the Western diaspora, attempted to counteract language courses in ethno language.

In the matter of religion, the two separated by different Christologies Eastern Churches are to be distinguished in the first place, the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch (in the west referred to as " Monophysites " and " Jacobites ") and the Assyrian Church of the East ( in the West also referred to as " Nestorians "). Then there are the various churches united with Rome, as the Church of the Maronites, the Syrian Catholic Church and the Chaldean Catholic Church.

After journalist and human rights activist Raif Toma the Assyrismus is not only a patriotism in the Mesopotamian sense, but is aimed at the unity of all Mesopotamians. The Assyrismus in the strict sense is a " Panmesopotamismus ", an independent idealism and a collection of Mesopotamian thought good - He should be denominational across and does not constitute institutionalized association policy, but is überparteiisch in and Institutionstunabhängig, although with the aim of a systematic political thinking and a National advanced thinking to achieve. The political Assyrismus establishes a connection between the name of the Syrian churches and the larger story of the nascent unit than the people of these churches. In this case, the separation of religion and politics is required, but rejected the suspicion of anti - clericalism.

Organizations

1968 was the Assyrian Universal Alliance (Assyrian Universal Alliance - AUA ), a worldwide organization that has set itself the target to clinch a semi -autonomous state in the ancient homeland of the Assyrians. During the second Gulf War in 1991 worsened the situation of the Assyrians. According to the AUA left more than 250,000 Iraq.

In 1978 was founded in Lebanon Shuraya. This political organization is in favor of starting their own Assyrian state Mesopotamia.

Other Organizations: ADM, ADO, ADP, APP, BNDP, Furkono and other