Fw: School Grand opening

[banipal benjamin]

Below is some pictures were taken as Mar Aprim was invited by me to attend as guest of honer to cut the ribbon. Unfortunately he claimed that it was him who opened the school. Read below on Ishtar TV. 

How can a religious leader make such a falls claim?

Banipal

On Monday, February 10, 2014 11:50 PM, banipal benjamin <bneashu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

الصفحة الرئيسية الصفحة الرئيسية الأخبار الأخبار برامج عشتار برامج عشتار مقالات مقالات شعبنا شعبنا وسائط متعددة وسائط متعددة تردد قناة عشتار تردد قناة عشتار من نحن من نحن إتصل بنا إتصل بنا  0 0إرسال4 | مشاهدات : 207 | مشاركات: 0 | 2011-08-14 09:23:00 |  نيافة الأسقف مار أبرم خاميس يفتتح مدرسة رسمية في مدينة فينكس بولاية أريزونا الأميريكية بسم الآب والإبن والروح القدس الإله الواحد آمين ببركة الرب وبرعاية نيافة الأسقف مار أبرم خاميس راعي وأسقف لأبرشية غرب أميريكا لكنيسة المشرق الآشورية، تم افتتاح مدرسة رسمية في البناية التابعة لكاتدرائية مار بطرس الرسول لكنيسة المشرق الآشورية في مدينة فينكس بولاية أريزونا الأمريكية. وقد قام نيافته بافتتاح المدرسة رسميا والإطلاع على برامجها الدراسية والتربوية وحضر الإفتاح كل من الأركذياقون الأب فريدرك هرمز والأب قندو قندو كاهن رعية مار بطرس الرسول والأب خوشابا شليمون كاهن رعية مار يوسب خنانيشوع في مدينة جاندلر وايضا الكادر التدريسي مع الطلاب والاهالي. علما ان المدرسة ستبدأ مشوارها التعليمي لسنتها الأولى مع 130 طالب وطالبة. الرب يبارك هذا العمل الرائع ولتكن جميع مدارسنا نورا للأجيال القادمة.عن اللجنة الإعلامية لأبرشية غرب أميريكا لكنيسة المشرق الآشورية الأب

[Matay]

Shlomo ah'uno Banipal,

Ana la masen/ l-eyben qaryen lishana "Arabaya. Shersha diyi eele min Tur-Abdin, athro d Othuroye ma"erwoye. B aha duktha nashe la mhamzimi/mah'ken "Arabaya.

Maybe it was Ishtar TV who wrote this mistake and not the bishop.

Did you contact them about this?

Nevertheless, I would like to congratulate you for this. Keep us updated with pictures and text about this school. It wil motivate us in different parts of the world to follow your example. 

Basma ganookh oo Marya naterrookh,

Matay Arsan

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[Banipal Benjamin]

Shlamo Akhuna Matay

 

Thank you for your email;

Maybe Ishtar TV posted this on their own, I don’t know.

I opened the school in year 2011 and closed it in 2012 because of the lack of moral support from the Assyrian church and community. The reason I keep posting this,  is for reminder because people forget.

I spend 5 years applying for Charter school and when I was granted the approval by the US department of education, the Assyrians of the Church did not support the school by not enrolling their kids in. The result,  school struggled financially.

And Mar Aprim Khamis and his church committee members did not renew the lease agreement for our school because we were behind on the rent. It is a long story, but Assyrian nation have to be aware of what happened so it will not happen again.

Our organization of “Bne Ashur” is an educational organization. Our goal is to open schools all over USA so we can preserve our Assyrian language for the next Assyrian generation. And also to prepare the way for the next Assyrian generation so they will hold titles in the White house to gain the political power.

 

Unfortunately just like many nations, we also have betrayals and money lovers that don’t care about the future of the next Assyrian generation. And we have these betrayals infiltrated in our churches as they are blocking stones in our way to bring success to our children’s future.

 

 Without Assyrian schools in USA,  we are lost as a nation. But our church in Arizona is more concerned about the dead Saints than the future of the living Assyrian children, as they do the Dukhrana for every Saint every Sunday. In addition to the Dukhrane,  our churches became as organization of entertainments by holding bingos and holding parties to generate money. Not being wise when I brought them the school and paid them rent , they still did not support the school Morally. .They did not have patient with me and the school by not realizing that every new school will struggle financially the first year of operation.

I had no choice but to close the school.

However we are planning for more schools in different states, but this time we will not open them at any church.  We will succeed despite all the obstacles because God is helping us.

Assyrians will rise but we must rise within our selves. And our true enemy is some of our own people. Please click on this link to watch the school video;  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNlEe-j9pis

 

Banipal Benjamin    

[matay]

Shlomo Ah’uno Banipal,

I have watched the youtube video. It was very nice, especially when the muslim girl was cheering: Khaya Atour :) 

I recommend everyone to watch it and pass it around. 

Very often we don’t realize that our churches act like political parties, who constantly keep the power over the people firmly in their hands. We, the members of the Syr. Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic churches, experience this at every major “Assyrianism” event. The members of the Assyrian Church of the East seem to over-see this because the church carries the name “Assyrian". 

Churches don’t want schools outside their control. Churches don’t want other political or cultural institutions becoming big and powerful. Churches don’t care about the “nation” or “national question” unless it’s all done through their initiative and it's under their control. (Not even the Assyrian Church of the East, despite the national name it carries). They sell heaven and hell to the masses and no competition to their merchandise is tolerated. Umtho/Umta and Mardutho/Marduta, once understood well, are powerful awakenings out of the dream that we are kept in by our religious leaders. 

Somehow it is understandable that our religious leaders act like this. There are boundaries and limits to their play ground and market. They can’t step into the world of Umtho/Umta, because their holy principles and constitution (Holy Book) forbids them. They would make fools out of themselves and it would break up their credibility/authority. This is why they wish everybody to remain fearful (!) believers in their products (Heaven/Hell, Jesus’/God’s forgiveness, Holy Mary’s love), because only they can sell you this. That is their play ground and they want you to stay there, so that they can rule you and me.

They, however, don’t realize that they suffocate the beautiful message of Christianity or their ancient church traditions by their aggressive “political” acts when they kill initiatives or attempts by others to protect our culture. Only an open discussion forum such as repetitive and a multitude of TV programs on such issues will liberate us from this sad state. This however should be done on independent and secular satellite TV  that will enter the households of every Assyrian (whether they like it or not) and this will awaken the people. 

I have high hopes for our people in the USA that are becoming very wealthy and will be able to fund such secular media projects before they assimilate into the melting pot of the USA or before ignorance will catch up on them. Without awakening, the nation is lost. That was already envisioned by the late Assyrian professor Naum Faiq from New Jersey in the 1920’s. His poetry and writings in his magazines were all about secular awakening and uniting the religiously divided nation. 

Don’t get me wrong. I love my church, the “Syriac” Orthodox church, which to me is the Assyrian (!) Orthodox church. This church, more than any other of our beloved Assyrian churches, has incorporated and safe guarded hundreds if not thousands of authentic melodies and poetry of the highest level in her liturgy since the dawn of Christianity, using pre-Christian songs and poetry as an example. The classical Assyrian language (Kthobonoyo/Sepraya/Lishana ateeqa) would have been extinct, if my church had not preserved it as one of her holy relics. Professor Naum Faiq knew this better than anyone, because he had the highest level of Shamoshutho / Shamashutha within our church and by the patriarch he was appointed as teacher for monks and bishops in Assyria before he had to leave his homeland.

But just like a blinded mother choking her child to death by hugging it too firm, this is also the case for our churches and their national/traditional heritage. We need to “help” our churches and separate “Church” and “State”  / i.e. politics/society/nationalism and church/religion. Such change should come from within and not from the outside. The battle for the awakening is on all fronts, even within the church. So don’t leave the churches to (with all due respect) the uneducated puppets of the bishops.

I apologize for the lengthy email,

Ham iqoro,

Matay beth Arsan

[Banipal Benjamin]

Shlamo Akhuna Matay,

Thank you for you email , and yes I agree with you every thing you said. 

In regard our Assyrian Church, I did not leave it,  but only i don't attend it here in Arizona. 

In regard the resurrection of our nation and how we can unite and overcome all the obstacles: We must know that our national issue will never be united or resurrected through religion churches or  through political organizations, instead,  

in order for us to rise we must rise through Global corporations with projects. Because the world of today is all controlled by major corporations.  This is why I came up with a plan attached bellow, and I believe with this plan we can rise and bring success to our nation globally. Success will generate wealth, and wealth will generate the political power that we don't have , once achieving that, Unity and resurrections will come. 

The listed projects in the attached fellow chart, most of them are sponsored by the USA federal programs. And this is my goal to use USA funds for the benefit of our nation. The school was the first project that we started. And my goal is to open school all over USA even for Americans in all 50 States. By doing this we will participate in education field in USA.  And we will become a nation of education. I did invite Assyrian church to partner up with us, But they did not reply. I even invited many Assyrian organizations to participate in our projects,  as Zowaa, Bet- Nahrain,  AUA and many other, but they all did not reply. Because they don't believe in projects,  instead they think they will unite this nation by their own poor political organization.

I invite you to visit my facebook at "Banipal Benjamin"

Sincerely

Banipal