User talk:Karambollis

Alqosh

Shlama khon. First I want to welcome you to wikipedia! We need more of our people to join in and contribute to our rich history. If you have question on how to do anything, please let me know. Now to answer your question, you see yes Alqosh's inhabitants are predominatly Chaldean Catholics, but it is different from other Chaldean villages in the area in that they consier themselves more Assyrian then other Chaldeans. Thus it is not pushing NPOV when stating it is indeed a Assyrian village. To give you an example of this, look at the village's hero; Toma Thomas. Probably the greatest Alqoshi leader, of course being Chaldean Catholic, he was a strong Assyrian nationalist leader. This expresses Alqosh's identity. Pshena. Chaldean 00:19, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Karam, nobody is argueing that Alqosh today is pure Chaldean Catholic. Indeed the Catholic Church is an important part of Alqosh's cultural identity. But how can you state that Alqosh is "ethnically Chaldean" when the village didn't even convert to Chaldean Catholicism until only 250 years ago (1750s).[[1]] So let me get this straight; Alqoshnaye were Assyrian before 1750, but after the conversion they lose their ethnic identity and become "Chaldean" ethnically? That doesn't make any sense. Every single Church and monastery you see in Alqosh were all owned by the Assyrian Church of the East until the 1700s. And this explains why the majority of Alqoshnaye still identity themselves with the Assyrian identity; they were one of the last villages to convert to Catholicism. Chaldean 15:35, 20 May 2007 (UTC)