Deacon Dr. Gorgis Mardo
THE ROLE OF THE SHAMOUN FAMILY IN THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS OF ITS OPPONENTS
DEAR READERS,
IF WE EXCLUDE THE MURDER COMMITTED IN ALQOSH AGAINST THE PATRIARCH HANANISHOU BY HIS UNCLE BECAUSE OF THE STRUGGLE OVER THE PATRIARCHAL CHAIR, AND IF WE DISMISS THE CRIME OF ANNIHILATING THE NIMROD FAMILY BY THEIR COUSINS IN QUJANIS, WE HAVE TO PAUSE FOR A WHILE ON THE MURDER OF THE MARTYR MARSHIMON BENJAMIN AND WHO WAS BEHIND IT.
SOME DEFENDERS OF SARMA KHANUM WROTE A WHILE AGO THAT AFTER SEIZING THE CASTLE OF ISMAIL AGHA AL-SHIKAKI “SIMKO” THEY FOUND IN IT A LETTER ADDRESSED FROM THE ENGLISH TO SIMKO ASKING HIM TO ASSASSINATE HIS HOLINESS THE MARTYR PATRIARCH MAR BENJAMIN, AND AS THE PROVERB SAYS (FROM YOUR MOUTH I CONDEMN YOU), IS IT LOGICAL AND REASONABLE THAT SURMA KHANUM DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS ALLEGED LETTER OR DID IT NOT REACH HER HAND, ESPECIALLY AFTER SHE BECAME THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING THINGS AFTER THE KILLING OF HER BROTHER, MAR BENJAMIN? AND WHAT WERE ITS PROCEDURES REGARDING THIS SERIOUS MATTER? ALL THE EVIDENCE PROVED THAT SHE TOOK HER FAMILY AND THE FAMILY OF MALIK ISMAIL AND THOSE CLOSE TO HER AND THE FORCE THAT WAS UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE FAMILY, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FORCE
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS IN IRAQ:
1) THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF AGHA MIRZA, BROTHER OF AGHA BOUTROS, WAS NOT A NATURAL DEATH, AS HIS EAGERNESS TO CONFRONT HIS ENEMIES WITH THE SPIRIT OF A LEADER FIGHTER WAS EXPECTED TO BE ASSASSINATED BY THE BRITISH AGENTS, WITH THEIR PAYMENT, AT ANY MOMENT! FOR THIS REASON, WHEN HE WAS RETURNING FROM Tel Kaif Chaldean town at night by car, HE CARRIED HIS PISTOL IN HIS HAND AND PUT HIS FINGER ON THE TRIGGER TO FACE ANY EMERGENCY SITUATION, WHICH LED TO A BULLET FROM HIS PISTOL FIRING ON HIS THIGH AS A RESULT OF THE CAR CRASHING INTO ONE OF THE LARGE POTHOLES IN THE ROAD, WHICH RESULTED IN SEVERE BLEEDING THAT CAUSED HIS DEATH… AGHA BOUTROS WAS PREVENTED FROM ATTENDING HIS BURIAL CEREMONIES IN MOSUL, THE KING OF KHOSHABA, MALIK KHAMU AL-BAZI AND THE REST OF THE CHIEFS PERFORMED THIS DUTY FOR THIS LEADER WHO SPENT HIS LIFE ON THE BATTLEFIELDS IN DEFENSE OF HIS NATION…
2) THE FIRST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON KING KHOSHABA IN 1920:
THIS IS THE LETTER OF BISHOP MARIA AND ALAHA, HE INCLUDED A TEXT TRANSLATION (I HAVE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED THE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL LETTER WRITTEN IN HIS EMINENCE’S HANDWRITING FROM CHICAGO)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 19
HONORABLE KING OF KHOSHABA
I OFFER MY LOVE AND RESPECT. AFTER GREETINGS, I HOPE THAT YOU AND YOUR HONORABLE FAMILY ARE IN GOOD HEALTH.
I HAVEN’T RECEIVED A LETTER FROM YOU FOR A WHILE, BUT I KNOW THAT YOUR EXCELLENCY IS VERY BUSY WITH RELIGIOUS ISSUES.
MY DEAR FRIEND, MAY GOD BLESS YOUR GLORIOUS DEEDS FOR YOUR NATION. IN FACT, THE SERVICES OF YOUR VENERABLE FAMILY, SINCE ANCIENT TIMES, TO THE ASSYRIAN NATION, CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN BY ANY MEMBER OF THIS NATION. BUT WHAT DO I SAY TO SIR MARSHIMON AND THE SHIMONITES WHO DO NOT RESPECT THEMSELVES OR OTHERS AS WELL! IN THIS WAY, THEY CANNOT PRESERVE NEITHER THEMSELVES NOR OTHERS. HOWEVER, DO NOT THINK, MY DEAR, THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF HUMILIATING YOU AND ME OR HUMILIATING OTHERS. RATHER, THEY HUMILIATE THEMSELVES AND BECOME A MOCKERY IN FRONT OF THE SECT AND THE WORLD. WE ARE VERY SADDENED BY THEIR AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS AGAINST YOU AND IN EVERY CASE, BUT GOD NEVER ABANDONS THE TRUTH AND CLINGS TO FALSEHOOD. WE PUT OURSELVES IN FRONT OF THE CANNONS FOR THEIR SAKE, BUT DESPITE THAT, THEIR EYES ARE BLINDED WHEN THEY SEE US OFFERING THE LEAST APPRECIATION OR RESPECT FROM THE RELIGION WITHOUT THINKING THAT APPRECIATION AND RESPECT IS ONLY GIVEN TO THOSE WHO DESERVE IT. YOU WILL GO FORWARD WITH THE BLESSING OF GOD, AND WE WILL STAND WITH YOU UNTIL DEATH, AND WE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU EVEN THE PICKAXE AND THE SPADE (THE GRAVE). IN FACT, WE LOVED THE MARCHIMON FAMILY, BUT THEY DID NOT WANT TO. LET THEM DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AND REMAIN LEADERS AS LONG AS THEY CAN. THE PEOPLE OF MARBICHO HAVE WRITTEN AGAINST YOU AND AGAINST AGHA BOUTROS A LOT, AND A YOUNG MAN NAMED MANSOUR CAME TO YOUR PARTY FROM HERE TO ASSASSINATE YOU AND AGHA BOUTROS, SO YOU MUST MANAGE HIS AFFAIRS. ALL THESE ACTS OF VANDALISM ARE ISSUED BY MARIUSEF KHANANICHO, WHO REPRESENTS THE ROLE OF OPPOSITION AGAINST YOU AND AGHA BOUTROS THERE.
MY DEAR, I HOPE THAT YOU WILL WRITE SOME LETTERS TO THE ASSYRIAN SECT PRESENT HERE, BECAUSE THEY ALL SUPPORT YOU AND AGHA BOUTROS, EXCEPT FOR THE PEOPLE OF MARBICHO WHO ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO STAND AGAINST YOU, BUT WE WILL BREAK THEIR NECKS HERE AFTER A WHILE, GOD WILLING, AND YOU WILL BE THERE. GREETINGS TO AGHA BOUTROS… YOUR LOYAL SERVANT, YOALAHA…
THE SECOND KING KHOSHABA ASSASSINATION PLOT:
IT IS WORTH MENTIONING AFTER THE MAY 1941 COUP AND THE RETURN OF THE BRITISH TO SEIZE THE REINS OF AFFAIRS IN IRAQ WITH AN IRON FIST AND IMPOSE THEIR COMPLETE CONTROL OVER ITS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. THEY REHABILITATED THEIR ARAB, KURDISH, AND ASSYRIAN FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES, AND RE-APPOINTED THEM IN SENSITIVE CENTERS AND POSITIONS IN THE STATE, SUCH AS THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND IN THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF BRIGADES, ESPECIALLY THE NORTHERN ONES, TO IMPLEMENT A POLICY AIMED AT STRIKING NATIONAL ELEMENTS, FRAGMENTING THE HOME FRONT, AND SPREADING DIVISION IN IT. AS FOR THEIR ASSYRIAN FRIENDS, THEY TRANSPORTED MAR YOUSSEF KHANANICHO BY PRIVATE MILITARY PLANE TO (CYPRUS) TO MEET WITH HIS NEPHEW, MAR SHIMON AND SARMA KHATOON, AND BRING HIM BACK. AFTER THAT, SAINT JOSEPH EMBARKED ON A REMARKABLE ACTIVITY IN MOVING AFTER A SLUMBER SINCE 1933, USING BRITISH MILITARY VEHICLES AND PROTECTING THEM FROM HABBANIYAH, WHICH HE TOOK AS HIS WINTER HEADQUARTERS, MOVING BETWEEN THE DISTRICTS OF MOSUL, KIRKUK, AND ERBIL. IN THE SUMMER SEASON, HE GOES UP TO THE RESORT OF SIR AMADIYA, WHERE AL-LEVY CAMPS. HIS RELATIVES WERE APPOINTED TO SPECIAL JOBS IN THE BRITISH EMBASSY AND CONSULATES. AS FOR THE SECOND STEP, IT WAS TO INVITE MALIK YAQU MALIK ISMAIL TO RETURN FROM SYRIA AND VOLUNTEER AGAIN IN THE LEVY FORCE, WHICH WAS PLACED IN THE SERVICE OF THE BRITISH. THE THIRD STEP WAS THE AGREEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP IN HABBANIYAH WITH THE LEADERSHIP AND OFFICERS OF AL-LEVY TO PREPARE AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF KHOSHABA AND LIQUIDATE HIS COMPANIONS! SO THEY DREW UP THE PLAN AND ORDERED THE COLLECTION OF MONEY FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS IN HABBANIYAH FROM AMONG THE AFFILIATES OF AL-LIVY, AND THEY CHOSE THE EXECUTING GROUP LED BY (STEFANOS SHIMON), NICKNAMED GEORGE ABU MARKRIT FROM THE GILO MINOR CLAN, WHO PRETENDED TO ACCEPT THE MISSION AND PROMISED TO IMPLEMENT IT.. BUT KING KHOSHABA’S RESPONSE WAS NOT EMOTIONAL, AND HE DID NOT FILE A LEGAL COMPLAINT AGAINST THEM IN THE COURTS, EVEN IF THE ELEMENTS OF THE LAWSUIT WERE AVAILABLE, BUT HE TRIED CALMLY AND DISTINGUISHED PRUDENCE TO GIVE AN UNFORGETTABLE LESSON TO THE ABUSERS WITH MALICIOUS INTENTIONS. SO HE WROTE TO THAT CONSPIRING GROUP A LENGTHY LETTER IN WHICH HE REMINDED THEM OF ALL THEIR SHAMEFUL DEEDS THAT CAUSED TRAGEDIES AND DISASTERS FOR THE POOR ASSYRIANS, AND FOR WHICH THEY DESERVE TO BE KILLED AND DIE MANY TIMES, RATHER THAN KILLING THOSE WHO WERE THE REASON FOR THE SALVATION OF THIS NATION AND PRESERVING WHAT IS LEFT OF IT. AND HE ASKED THEM: DO YOU REALLY DARE TO KILL ME NOW, AND I PROMISE YOU THAT YOU ARE COWARDS WHO ARE THUNDERING IN THE BATTLEFIELDS, TERRIFIED OF LOOKING AT MY FACE AND AFRAID TO PASS OVER MY CORPSE! FROM WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU GOT THIS COURAGE NOW? SO HE WROTE TO THAT CONSPIRING GROUP A LENGTHY LETTER IN WHICH HE REMINDED THEM OF ALL THEIR SHAMEFUL DEEDS THAT CAUSED TRAGEDIES AND DISASTERS FOR THE POOR ASSYRIANS, AND FOR WHICH THEY DESERVE TO BE KILLED AND DIE MANY TIMES, RATHER THAN KILLING THOSE WHO WERE THE REASON FOR THE SALVATION OF THIS NATION AND PRESERVING WHAT IS LEFT OF IT. AND HE ASKED THEM: DO YOU REALLY DARE TO KILL ME NOW, AND I PROMISE YOU THAT YOU ARE COWARDS WHO ARE THUNDERING IN THE BATTLEFIELDS, TERRIFIED OF LOOKING AT MY FACE AND AFRAID TO PASS OVER MY CORPSE! FROM WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU GOT THIS COURAGE NOW? SO HE WROTE TO THAT CONSPIRING GROUP A LENGTHY LETTER IN WHICH HE REMINDED THEM OF ALL THEIR SHAMEFUL DEEDS THAT CAUSED TRAGEDIES AND DISASTERS FOR THE POOR ASSYRIANS, AND FOR WHICH THEY DESERVE TO BE KILLED AND DIE MANY TIMES, RATHER THAN KILLING THOSE WHO WERE THE REASON FOR THE SALVATION OF THIS NATION AND PRESERVING WHAT IS LEFT OF IT. AND HE ASKED THEM: DO YOU REALLY DARE TO KILL ME NOW, AND I PROMISE YOU THAT YOU ARE COWARDS WHO ARE THUNDERING IN THE BATTLEFIELDS, TERRIFIED OF LOOKING AT MY FACE AND AFRAID TO PASS OVER MY CORPSE! FROM WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU GOT THIS COURAGE NOW?
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS IN SYRIA:
FROM THE BOOK (THE ASSYRIAN STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL) WRITTEN BY MALIK LUKOSHLIMON IN BADAWI AL-TAKHUMI…
AFTER THE MODREN ASSYRIANS (NESTORIANS) WHO IMMIGRATED TO SYRIA SETTLED IN THE KHABOUR REGION, THEY FOUND THAT THE PROMISES THEY HAD HEARD FROM THE SHAMOUN FAMILY, WHO PORTRAYED THIS REGION TO THEM AS THE GARDEN OF EDEN, SEEMED LIKE HELL COMPARED TO THE BEAUTIFUL REGIONS AND VILLAGES THAT THEY INHABITED IN IRAQ AND THE RESOURCES THAT THEY REAPED FROM THEIR AGRICULTURAL WORK AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. IT SUFFICED THEM TO LIVE IN DIGNITY, AS WAS THE CASE WITH THE ARABS AND KURDS LIVING IN THE REGION. RATHER, THEY WERE BETTER OFF THAN THEM, AND IN TERMS OF ARMAMENT, TOO, THEY CONSTITUTED A SIGNIFICANT DEFENSIVE WEIGHT, SINCE DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1920-1933 AD, NONE OF THE KURDISH OR ARAB CLANS DARED TO HARASS THEM. FOR THESE REASONS COMBINED, SOME OF THEM TRIED TO RETURN TO THEIR VILLAGES IN IRAQ. AS FOR THOSE WHO WERE UNABLE TO DO SO, THEIR EYES BECAME STARING AT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, WHICH MIGHT FIND ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT WOULD ACCEPT THEM TO MOVE TO A BETTER CONDITION. IN THIS PERIOD, THAT IS, SINCE 1934, FIVE PEOPLE BECAME ACTIVE IN THIS DIRECTION, AND THEY ARE (MALIK LOKO SHLIMON AL-TAKHUMI, MALIK DANIEL, MALIK ISMAIL, LEON DINKHA AL-SHAMUNI, MAQSUD NEKHO, AND PRESIDENT SHLIMON ZUMAYA). THEIR ACTIVITY WAS INITIALLY SUPPORTED BY HIS HOLINESS THE PATRIARCH RESIDING IN CYPRUS. . HOWEVER, HIS HOLINESS RETURNED AFTER SEVERAL YEARS TO CHANGE HIS MIND AND PUT OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF ANY MIGRATION FROM KHABOUR, AFTER HE SENSED THAT THERE WAS A GREAT MATERIAL BENEFIT FOR HIM IN KEEPING THEM INDIFFERENT TO THEIR MISFORTUNES (THIS IS WHAT WE WILL SEE IN THE TWO LETTERS THAT HIS HOLINESS SENT TO THE PEOPLE OF KHABOUR, AND I WILL PUBLISH THEM IN THE NEXT PARTS).
THREAT OF ASSASSINATION BY UNKNOWN PERSONS TO MALIK LOKO SHLIMON AL-TAKHOUMI:
IN THIS CHARGED ATMOSPHERE, I RECEIVED THE ASSASSINATION THREAT LETTER AND I TRANSLATED IT LITERALLY WITH ITS SPELLING AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS…
(THE CONTENT OF THE LETTER) TO LUKO SHLIMON BADAWI AL-TAKHOUMI:
BEFORE TAKING ANY ACTION, WE WANT TO INFORM YOU AND YOU MUST COMPLY, OTHERWISE YOUR LIFE WILL BE IN DANGER.
“Young AssyrianS (Terrorists)
WHO DON’T CARE ABOUT THEIR LIVES”
WE, THE AUTHORS OF THIS ULTIMATUM, ARE A GROUP OF YOUNG ASSYRIANS (TERRORISTS) WHO DON’T CARE ABOUT THEIR LIVES. AFTER STUDYING YOUR ACTIVITIES FOR A LONG TIME, WE HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT YOU ARE THE FIRST TO RAISE PROBLEMS AMONG THE ASSYRIANS, AND YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED THE MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE. YOU MUST EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC COMMANDS:
1) YOU ARE NOT A FRONTIER OWNER (CHIEF) AS YOU NOW CALL YOURSELF. THE APPROPRIATE PRESIDENT MUST HAVE OBTAINED A CERTIFICATE TO THAT EFFECT, SIGNED AND SEALED BY PATRIARCH MAR SHIMON.
2) IN THE FUTURE, YOU MUST OBEY ALL ORDERS ISSUED BY PATRIARCH MARSHMEON AND BE LOYAL TO HIS FOLLOWERS.
3) YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP ALL YOUR ACTIVITIES AGAINST YOUR RECOGNIZED LEADER AMONG ALL NATIONS AND THE ASSYRIAN PEOPLE.
4) YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY END ALL YOUR RELATIONS WITH YOUSSEF MALIK FOR BEING A TRAITOR TO OUR PEOPLE (BY WHICH HE MEANS YOUSSEF MALIK AL-TALKEFI, THE FAMOUS WRITER AND FORMER SECRETARY OF MAR SHIMON).
5) IF YOU IGNORE ALL OF THE ABOVE, YOUR LIFE WILL END VERY SOON, BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO HAVE ANOTHER PATRIARCH AND KHOSHABA.
(SENT FROM THE SECRET SOCIETY)…..
THIS, OF COURSE, WAS NOT THE FIRST THREAT OF ASSASSINATION, NOR WAS THE AUTHOR ALONE EXPOSED TO THAT. PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP WHO MADE DECISIONS THAT AFFECT THE LIVES AND WELL-BEING OF OTHERS SHOULD EXPECT SOME REACTIONS FROM THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THAT… BUT WHEN THEY RESORT TO ASSASSINATION, THAT IS AN INDICATION OF PEOPLE WITH A LOW PERSONALITY. MORAL BANKRUPTCY… OTHERS HAVE BEEN ASSASSINATED IN IRAQ PREVIOUSLY, SUCH AS AGHA BOUTROS AND MALAK KHOSHABA…
SECOND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT:
(YUMU QASIM) A PARANOID PERSON, WHO WAS USED AS AN ASSASSIN TO ELIMINATE OPPONENTS:
THE AFOREMENTIONED YUMO QASIM HAD BEEN SUFFERING FROM A MENTAL PROBLEM (PARANOIA) SINCE HIS CHILDHOOD, AND HE HAD A GUN, SO THE FRENCH CAPTAIN (VILIOD) WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE ASSYRIAN CAMPS IN AL-KHABUR PULLED THE GUN FROM HIM AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE AND HANDED IT OVER TO (RUMI), THE WIFE OF SHALIMON, THE BROTHER OF MALIK DANIEL AND MALIK YAKO. MALEK ISMAIL’S CHILDREN SO THAT HE COULD NOT USE HIM IN HIS MAD DELUSIONS. AND WHEN (ROMY) RETURNED FROM CYPRUS AFTER VISITING HER SISTER, SARMA KHANUM, AND HER NEPHEW, MARSHMOUN, SHE RETURNED THE GUN TO YUMO, AND IT TURNED OUT THAT SHE HAD PROVIDED HIM WITH INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT TO DO WITH IT… IT DOES NOT REQUIRE EFFORT TO PERSUADE SUCH A PERSON TO DO SOMETHING THAT A NORMAL PERSON WOULD THINK OF MORE THAN ONCE BEFORE TAKING ACTION OR REJECTING IT DIRECTLY.
ONE DAY IN 1937, LEON ACCOMPANIED YOMO, AS USUAL, AND THEY WENT TO VISIT THE NEIGHBORS, THEN THEY RETURNED TO LEON’S HOUSE AT 11:30 AT NIGHT. THE BULLET MISSED HIS HEART BY ONE CENTIMETER, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT OF DR. (FRECHO), THE DOCTOR WHO TREATED HIM IN BEIRUT. THEN YOMO FLED FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRIME IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT WAS COMMITTED AND TRIED IN VAIN TO LEAVE SYRIA TO IRAQ … AS FOR LEON, CAPTAIN “FILWOOD” WAS INFORMED BY THE LOCAL VILLAGERS, SO HE WENT DIRECTLY TO SEE LEON. AN URGENT DISPATCH WAS SENT FROM ALEPPO TO TAKE HIM TO A HOSPITAL IN BEIRUT FOR TREATMENT. HE UNDERWENT SURGERY AND HIS LIFE WAS SAVED…. LYON SPOKE FRENCH, AND HE WORKED AS A TRANSLATOR FOR CAPTAIN FELIOD… ON THE SAME NIGHT OF THE ACCIDENT, CAPTAIN FELIOD WENT FROM TAL TAMR TO AL-HASAKAH AND INFORMED THE AUTHORITIES IN THE PROVINCE ABOUT THE CRIME. HE ASKED TO NOTIFY ALL THE TOWNS ON THE ISLAND SO THAT THEY WOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT NOT TO ALLOW YOMO TO ESCAPE FROM SYRIA… YOMO WAS SEEN NEAR ONE OF THE VILLAGES IN THE AREA, AND HE WAS CHASED AND ASKED TO STOP, BUT HE STARTED SHOOTING AT HIS PURSUERS, AND THERE WAS AN EXCHANGE OF FIRE IN WHICH YOMO WAS WOUNDED IN THE THIGH AFTER HE USED UP HIS BULLETS, BUT HE COULD NOT ESCAPE WITH A BROKEN FEMUR. SO HE WAS ARRESTED AND HANDED OVER TO THE GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES… AND WHEN HIS TESTIMONY WAS TAKEN THROUGH THE TRANSLATION OF DR. YADKAR, YOMO STATED (THAT HE WAS INDOCTRINATED BY ROMY, SAYING TO HIM: THERE ARE FIVE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE MARCHIMON AND THEY MUST BE ELIMINATED, AND THESE PEOPLE ARE: MALIK LOKO, MALIK DANIEL, LEON DANKHA AL-SHAMUNI, MAQSOUD NEKHO AND THE PRESIDENT SHLIMON ZUMAYA), AND IT WAS PROVEN IN THE INVESTIGATION THAT YOMO HAD ACCOMPLICES IN THIS WORK, AND ONE OF THEM CAME AND CONFESSED AND ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS FROM HIS SPECIFIC VICTIM, WHO WAS (MALIK DANIEL, SON OF MALIK ISMAIL, BROTHER OF RUMI’S HUSBAND), WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ASSASSINATED THAT NIGHT.
WE DO NOT WANT TO MENTION HERE THE NAME OF THE MURDERER OR THE REASON FOR WHICH HE WANTED TO KILL MALIK DANIEL, EXCEPT THAT HIS NAME IS NOT A SECRET TO THE SONS OF TAYARI IN TAL TAMR… GOD IS THE JUDGE AND HE WILL REWARD EACH ONE ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS AND INTENTIONS. HE WAS TERRIFIED BEFORE PULLING THE TRIGGER AND ADDED THAT HE FELT AS IF A VOICE HAD TOLD HIM NOT TO DO SO… END OF QUOTE…
THE TRAGEDY OF ALQOSH AND ENDED WITH THE TRAGEDY OF CALIFORNIA, PASSING THROUGH THE TRAGEDIES OF GOJANS AND URMIA. AND AS CHRISTIANS, WE SAY GOD’S MERCY BE UPON EVERYONE WHO WAS KILLED AND EVERYONE WHOM GOD TOOK. THE WORD HOLINESS HAS ITS OWN SPIRITUAL MEANING FOR WHICH THAT PERSONALITY WAS SANCTIFIED, AND AMONG THE QUALITIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN THE SAINTS ARE THE DISTINGUISHED HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS AND SELF-SACRIFICE FOR THE SAKE OF SPIRITUAL BELIEF AND ASCETICISM AND AVOIDING MATTERS THAT CALL FOR BLOODSHED AND HONESTY WITH EVERYONE EVEN WITH ENEMIES AND ABSTAINING FROM COLLECTING MONEY AND NOT TO SEIZE THE MONEY OF OTHERS (SO HOW ABOUT IF THIS MONEY IS THE MONEY OF THE POOR, ORPHANS AND WIDOWS! ) THIS MATTER APPLIES TO ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD EXCEPT FOR OUR PEOPLE, SOME OF WHICH ARE UNIQUE TO SANCTIFYING THOSE WHO ARE FAR FROM HOLINESS… IS THE ONE WHO CAUSES THE KILLING OF THOUSANDS OF HIS PEOPLE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A WORLDLY POSITION CONSIDERED A SAINT? IS ANYONE CONSPIRING TO ASSASSINATE HIS OPPONENTS, EVEN AMONG HIS RELATIVES, FOR NOTHING BUT BECAUSE THEY TRIED TO FIND A BETTER SHELTER FOR THEM THAN IN SYRIA, AND BECAUSE THAT LEADS TO THE LOSS OF THIS SAINT’S SOURCE OF LIVELIHOOD IN THE EVENT OF THEIR DEPARTURE, SO HE TRIED TO PREVENT THEM AND KEEP THEM IN A STATE OF POVERTY AND DESTITUTION SO THAT HE COULD BEG THROUGH THEM LARGE SUMS OF DOLLARS BENEFACTORS IN AMERICA IS THIS CONSIDERED A SAINT? IS THE ONE WHO OCCUPIES THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS POSITION IN HIS CHURCH THAT PREVENTS HIM FROM MARRYING AND HAVING CHILDREN VIOLATING THE LAW OF THE CHURCH, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THIS LAW, SO HE MARRIES AND HAS CHILDREN AND ISSUES HIS ORDERS TO ALL BISHOPS AND BISHOPS TO FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE, IS HE CONSIDERED A SAINT? THEY ARE QUESTIONS THAT REQUIRE AN ANSWER. IS THAT POSSIBLE FOR MERCENARIES? AND TO THE FIFTY-SECOND PART SOON.
