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'''There is no current creditable evidence that proves there is such thing as Muslim Assyrians'''. After the conquest of their homeland they were subject to islamination and the ones that became muslim have no Assyrian identity. The Assyrian people never accepted Islam and refused to identify themselfs as arabs this lead to the persecution of the Assyrian people in the middle east.<ref>http://www.imninalu.net/myths-Arabs.htm</ref> |
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The [[Assyrian people]] have been subject to [[Islamisation]] since the 7th century [[Muslim conquests]]. Some of them have been fully [[Arabization|Arabized]], while a small number retains elements of Assyrian ethnic identity: |
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:"A small minority of the Assyrians, around 1%, has converted to Islam, but remains Assyrian in culture and language...The flag of the Muslim Assyrian minority is a vertical tricolor of violet, yellow and green, bearing a white crescent moon and five-pointed star on the upper hoist."<REF>Minahan, James (1996). ''Nations Without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements''. Greenwood Press, p. 247f.</REF> |
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Arabic-speaking [[Muslim]]s known as ''Mhalmoye'' or ''[[Mhallami]]'' from the [[Tur Abdin]] region may originally have been converted from [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac Orthodoxy]] to [[Islam]] during the [[16th century|sixteenth century]].<REF NAME="Kalan">{{Cite web| author=[[Kalan Müzik]] | date=2003 online | title="Syriac Culture" | work=Kalan.com | url=http://www.kalan.com/scripts/Dergi/Dergi.asp?t=3&yid=9392 | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030929053902/http://www.kalan.com/scripts/Dergi/Dergi.asp?t=3&yid=9392 | archivedate=2003-09-29 }}</REF> (cf. [[Hamshenis]], [[Greek Muslims]], [[Pomaks]], [[Macedonian Muslims|Torbesh]], [[Gorani (ethnic group)|Gorani]]). Culture from their pre-Islamic period survived, such as the appearance of the [[Christian cross|cross]] otherwise considered to be a decoration based on a flower.<ref>[http://sor.cua.edu/Pub/StephenGriffith/VisitSETurkeyOct1999.html ''A Fourth Visit to Tur Abdin and SE Turkey''] [http://sor.cua.edu/Pub/StephenGriffith/VisitSETurkeyMay2001.html ''Tur Abdin - A Report of a Visit to SE Turkey in May 2001'']</ref> |
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There is no current creditable evidence that proves there is such thing as Muslim Assyrians. After the conquest of their homeland they were subject to islamination and the ones that became muslim have no Assyrian identity. The Assyrian people never accepted Islam and refused to identify themselfs as arabs this lead to the persecution of the Assyrian people in the middle east.[1]
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