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Lara Logan
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I went to an ancient village in northern Iraq once when reporting for 60 Minutes. I asked them to take me to the oldest building in the village. They did not take me to the mosque as I expected, they took me to the synagogue. Then I asked to go to the second oldest building and they took me to the Assyrian church. Then I asked “what about the mosque”? They said that came “after”. So I looked it up. Turned out the Assyrians were the first to convert to Christianity as a nation in the 1st century AD. And 500 - 600 years later the first Muslims came to that land. I was surprised because there is no mention of this ever. I lived in Iraq for five years before this and never considered for a moment that anyone else had a claim to any of that land - it was never part of the narrative there or in the US or anywhere else. And then a Kurdish man educated me on their history and how many of the Kurds were taxed into extinction by Muslim conquerors/invaders and forced to convert. It’s why some Kurds still bear hatred towards their Muslim neighbor’s today. What is the point? That there’s enough blame to go around - you can find it everywhere you go. But there is never an excuse for slaughtering innocent, unarmed people in cold blood. Never. And if you are justifying this, you are on the wrong side of history.