Tuesday 24 July 2012

The Hellenic Orthodox Community Of Lebanon

The Hellenic Orthodox Community Of Lebanon
Sample As soon as THE Go amiss AND Lead OF THE Neat Band together IN LEBANON, RODRIGUE (DIMITRI) EL KHOURY, BY ANTONIA PATSIDOU

"1) The Hellenic Neat community in Lebanon, lists boring 3,000 Hellenes-Greeks. The Hellenic sermon regions of the earth are mostly shut in the capital Beirut, and in Tripoli, at North Lebanon. Contemporary us above disc on the Hellenic community of Lebanon."

That the Hellenic Neat community in Lebanon lists boring 3000 Hellenes living in Lebanon, is a inappropriate put up. The true compute is about 300,000 and we are 7-8% of the identity, and the fourth major community in Lebanon, formerly Sunnis, Shiits, and Maronites. The compute 3000 represents family who have "Greek placement" from the new Greek take, and family who came to Lebanon from Greece formerly 1920. But family who have "Hellenic heredity", family who in imitation of spar Greek, family who are named "Rum"(in the Arabic discuss) are now above than 300,000.

Later the Arabs industrious our land in 634 A.D, they called our land "the land of al-Rum" and the at the outset Arab historian al-Wakidi from the 8th century noted that in every Syrian and Lebanese commune, the Arab invaders were required to converse in with our personal (al-Rum), in the "Greek discuss" (lougha Rumia). The actual as the Turks formerly them, they called Greeks "Rum" and the Greek discuss "Romaic". At the rear 1400 being of Arab invasions, we are completely Arabized, but we deposit our name, "Rum", and we deposit the Greek discuss in the liturgies. And you have to know that the Greek Neat community, and the Greek Catholic community (Uniates) have the actual heredity, and the Greek Catholic community now are about 190,000 in Lebanon. And don't let pass that lots Greek philosophers and saints are from Antioch (Saint John Chrysosotom, Saint John of Damascus, Saint Romanos the Melodist, etc.).

"2) The Hellenes in Lebanon, bit they speak Arabic, deposit in their way of thinking that they are Greeks, and are clear to develop the Arabism. But what about the tell untruths that was ready by the member parties irritating to assure them that they are Neat Arabs or Syrians, but not Hellenes. For instance sour happens with this issue?"

We serene cry out ourselves "Rum". In the old Arab manuscripts the name "Rum" in our earth machinery "Greek polite society", and the term "lougha Rumia" machinery "Greek discuss". And we are existing, lots centuries prior the Arabs. Papadopoulos, in his book "The Preceding of the Antichian House of worship", says: "The mountain of the Antiochian church was Greek" (page 51). And about the Arabization, he says in the actual book, "The irritation has been intensified as 773... The Calipha al-Mansur... prevents the teaching of the Greek discuss to children. Since that time, the Christians, very the Neat House of worship, were required to decode books participating in Arabic... and this is what precipitated the Arabization of the Greek polite society" (page 570, 571). The tell untruths of the member parties, committed by the Muslims, at this time say to all polite society that they are "Arabs", and the Christians are from the Arab tribes, which is not the truth. They teach this inappropriate put up in schools (Syria), and in Lebanon lots of the polite society repeat this inappropriate put up flaw any earlier period references, and flaw searching the earlier period truth. The tell untruths of the Maronite parties say to our "Neat insignificant" that we are all Christian "Syriacs", not Hellenes, and the "Rums" were invaders, as the "Arabs". And lots members of the "Rum" identity repeat this put up flaw any point of view, committed by the strong Maronite media. The truth is: in this land impart in imitation of existed lots nations-communities. The Syriacs (Maronites), the Hellenes (Rum), and the Arabs (Muslims). We have to develop the "plurality" of this turf, since it is the "historically true one" not the "ideological one".

"3) The Greek Neat Teen of Lebanon are the variety of the Greeks of Antioch, namely they are Greeks from the Hellenistic era. Contemporary is an handiwork on your part to found a member troop for the Greek Neat community. For instance are the objectives of the party?"

Easily by insisting on this "plurality" can we level our community from life form unfathomable. The Lebanese decree is a sectarian decree. We have 128 deputees, 64 prerequisite be Muslims, and 64 prerequisite be Christians. 14 deputees is the quote of the Greek Neat community. The Vice Prevalent Member of the clergy in the same way prerequisite be a Greek Neat. The complete community in Lebanon has its own member troop, that's why they are strong in politics. The Maronites have their member parties (kataeb, the Lebanese forces, the fpm, and the marada), the Sunni community has the "calculated be busy" and the Islamic organizations, the Shiits have the Hezbollah and Amal, the Druze have their parties. Unaffected the Armenian community (1%) of the identity is strong in member life and they can have their own building in the meeting and the imperial, since they have their own troop. The Greek Neat community (7% of the identity) has 14 deputees, none of them have "a Greek Neat" expression, no one of them come from "a Greek Neat" troop. The leaders of the other communities get paid OUR building, that's why our Neat deputees speak of the interests of the other communities. To comply with the "Maronites leaders" or the "Muslim leaders" to get paid them atypical time in impart electoral program. We have to soul ourselves in a member troop to improve our member specter, not precisely in Lebanon, but in Syria too and in Jordan. We have to soul ourselves in a member troop to level our earlier period society, the "Byzantine-Hellenic" society. In this way impart donate be no above fascinating our insignificant in the other's member ideologies. That's why we have to teach the Greek discuss to our insignificant, we have to make conferences about this earlier period society, and this time we ready the at the outset "liturgy in the east" commemorating the fall of OUR Urban (Poli) Constantinople, to deposit our earlier period society source of revenue. In our expression we said: "Hagia Sophia is ours", and we ready this liturgy with greetings from the Greek Neat of Antioch and all the East to our Ecumenical Patriarchate, saying: "Our Patriarch of Constantinople is an ecumenical credence, any rupture to his citizenship is an insulting act versus all the Neat polite society in the world". And for the at the outset time we talked to the Lebanese media about this provoke and this earlier period good cheer.

"4) Since the chivalrous war started in Syria, thousands of Christians have been killed by Muslim mujahideen guerrillas. Several of them are Greek Neat Christians, on the whole Hellene Macedonians and Hellenes of the Dense transom. For instance is your information on this issue?"

Our Greek Neat community in Syria outlast in a poor recognize. The Islamic fundamentalists at this time, supported by western "asinine" politics, incursion lots old Christian monuments, very in Homs Emesa, the commune of the big Greek Saint Romanos the Melodist. At this moment 130,000 Greek Neat are displaced from this commune to the Alawite turf or at Lebanon. They incursion our brothers impart, and weaken them, and the western media support these fundamentalists flaw asking the Greek Neat identity of Syria if it donate be better for them to reorganize an "Islamic fundamentalist decree". I can say, even in Syria, precisely by creating a Greek Neat member troop can we level our specter. Not to be used by the others conflicts - 13% of the Syrian identity is Greek Neat, above than 1,200,000. By firm a member troop for this big community, you can suppose what an grasp we donate have. We donate be above strong and we can say: our troop, our community donate never be obsession in your conflicts. We have our citizenship and we are existing to grab hold of them by creating this troop. We can make the kinship linking all the communities. And we can side with OUR citizenship.

"5) For instance communication would you daydream to send in Greek to your brothers in Hellas?"

We are snobbish of our Greek decline. Do not let pass that existing in the East, you have Greek brothers, and WE Sympathy YOU. We are the Acritan temples [Acritans were the Dense check guards] and we donate deposit the roast in our hands, the roast of Hellenism and Consistency.

Source: Shortened by John Sanidopoulos