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AZERIS CHANGE THE "HISTORY"
AZG DAILY #82, 07-05-2011
By Vahram Atanesian
"Changes should be made to process of teaching Azerbaijani history of
Azerbaijan's educational institutions", said Elnur Aslanov, head of
the political analysis and information department of the Azerbaijani
Ilham Aliyev's Administration.
"Azerbaijan needs modern youth, with good knowledge of history of his
people and the state, guided by the national idea of Azerbaijanism.
When the youth says, "I am Azerbaijani", they should be proud and be
able to convey those feelings to other nationalities through their
intellectual potential, initiative and creativity," he continued.
And what is the purpose of this initiation. According to Elnur
Aslanov, "Azerbaijan has become a leader in the region from economic
and political viewpoint. The country should also become a leader on
human potential, not only in the region, but also in the world."
If a certain Khalil Rza thinks so, it would be possible to hope that
"the mad poet" just dreams. But it turns out, that this is a summary
to "State Program on Azerbaijani Youth for 2011-2015". Ilham Aliyev
ordered the appropriate offices to "present within two months" the
main directions of the project.
"Correcting" one's own history one more time could still be accepted.
Though we should be sure that the "correction" will be carried out on
account of the neighboring nations - Georgians, Persians, Lezghins,
Armenians and others. That is no news. The roots of Azerbaijani
"historiography" are not clean from the very beginning.
The most dangerous is that Azerbaijan is developing a program and will
implement it, according to Elnur Aslanov, in order "to convey those
feelings of "being Azeri" to other nationalities through their
intellectual potential, initiative and creativity". That is, the
peoples of the region, and potentially, of the world should "stand
proudly and shout": "I am Azeri".
And it must "happen" because "Azerbaijan has become a leader in the
region from economic and political viewpoint."
What is this, if not an obvious fascism? Or, to put it mildly,
xenophobia, hatred towards the others and implantation of the worship
of their own "exceptionality" among the youth, moreover, by the
state-targeted program.
Could you imagine that by cultural, traditional and scientific
potential, by new times economic and demographic potential, such a
program could approve China, a country that has leading position not
only in the region but also worldwide. And convey the pride of "being
Chinese" to the others in the region and the world through the every
possible way. Or Japan. Or Russia, the United States, India. Or, the
entire Arabic world would unite by saying "I am Arab" and "convey that
pride to Jews".
All of the above mentioned countries, however, keep their own national
pride, history, culture and traditions within the borders of their
states. And, at the same time, they respect the others, respect
other's rights to be proud of their history and culture. Since the
source of co-existence is tolerance towards others, but never obliging
ones national pride to others.
Any regularity is not a regularity in Azerbaijan, however, if it is
not crossed the mind of "know-all" Ilham Aliyev. And recently he
"thought" that "the separation of the Turkish united world is the
greatest injustice of the 20th century". And he decided to "restore
the historical justice" throughout conveying to the whole region the
pride "I am Azeri", which should be understood as "I am Turkish", as
this is the slogan of the older brother Turkey.
And after "making Turks" the peoples of the region he intends to
"occupy positions of intellectual leader" in the entire world. Turkish
President Gul says the truth, when he says that soon Turkey would not
want to become an EU member. Why should it want, if Ilham Aliyev
develops a program "to make Turkish the entire world". Perhaps Turkey
prompted this.
And "naive" Europeans try to convince that "there is no Pan-Turkism".
Perhaps they only try to calm themselves.
From: A. Papazian
AZG DAILY #82, 07-05-2011
By Vahram Atanesian
"Changes should be made to process of teaching Azerbaijani history of
Azerbaijan's educational institutions", said Elnur Aslanov, head of
the political analysis and information department of the Azerbaijani
Ilham Aliyev's Administration.
"Azerbaijan needs modern youth, with good knowledge of history of his
people and the state, guided by the national idea of Azerbaijanism.
When the youth says, "I am Azerbaijani", they should be proud and be
able to convey those feelings to other nationalities through their
intellectual potential, initiative and creativity," he continued.
And what is the purpose of this initiation. According to Elnur
Aslanov, "Azerbaijan has become a leader in the region from economic
and political viewpoint. The country should also become a leader on
human potential, not only in the region, but also in the world."
If a certain Khalil Rza thinks so, it would be possible to hope that
"the mad poet" just dreams. But it turns out, that this is a summary
to "State Program on Azerbaijani Youth for 2011-2015". Ilham Aliyev
ordered the appropriate offices to "present within two months" the
main directions of the project.
"Correcting" one's own history one more time could still be accepted.
Though we should be sure that the "correction" will be carried out on
account of the neighboring nations - Georgians, Persians, Lezghins,
Armenians and others. That is no news. The roots of Azerbaijani
"historiography" are not clean from the very beginning.
The most dangerous is that Azerbaijan is developing a program and will
implement it, according to Elnur Aslanov, in order "to convey those
feelings of "being Azeri" to other nationalities through their
intellectual potential, initiative and creativity". That is, the
peoples of the region, and potentially, of the world should "stand
proudly and shout": "I am Azeri".
And it must "happen" because "Azerbaijan has become a leader in the
region from economic and political viewpoint."
What is this, if not an obvious fascism? Or, to put it mildly,
xenophobia, hatred towards the others and implantation of the worship
of their own "exceptionality" among the youth, moreover, by the
state-targeted program.
Could you imagine that by cultural, traditional and scientific
potential, by new times economic and demographic potential, such a
program could approve China, a country that has leading position not
only in the region but also worldwide. And convey the pride of "being
Chinese" to the others in the region and the world through the every
possible way. Or Japan. Or Russia, the United States, India. Or, the
entire Arabic world would unite by saying "I am Arab" and "convey that
pride to Jews".
All of the above mentioned countries, however, keep their own national
pride, history, culture and traditions within the borders of their
states. And, at the same time, they respect the others, respect
other's rights to be proud of their history and culture. Since the
source of co-existence is tolerance towards others, but never obliging
ones national pride to others.
Any regularity is not a regularity in Azerbaijan, however, if it is
not crossed the mind of "know-all" Ilham Aliyev. And recently he
"thought" that "the separation of the Turkish united world is the
greatest injustice of the 20th century". And he decided to "restore
the historical justice" throughout conveying to the whole region the
pride "I am Azeri", which should be understood as "I am Turkish", as
this is the slogan of the older brother Turkey.
And after "making Turks" the peoples of the region he intends to
"occupy positions of intellectual leader" in the entire world. Turkish
President Gul says the truth, when he says that soon Turkey would not
want to become an EU member. Why should it want, if Ilham Aliyev
develops a program "to make Turkish the entire world". Perhaps Turkey
prompted this.
And "naive" Europeans try to convince that "there is no Pan-Turkism".
Perhaps they only try to calm themselves.
From: A. Papazian