cosmosaltana
29.10.03, 19:04
This letter was sent to Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard Corporation, in
response to a speech given by her on September 26, 2001.
November 7, 2001
Carly Fiorina Hewlett-Packard 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185
Dear Madame Fiorina:
It is with great interest that I read your speech delivered on September 26,
2001, titled "Technology, Business and Our way of Life: What's Next" [sic]. I
was particularly interested in the story you told at the end of your speech,
about the Arab/Muslim civilization. As an Assyrian, a non-Arab, Christian
native of the Middle East, whose ancestors reach back to 5000 B.C., I wish to
clarify some points you made in this little story, and to alert you to the
dangers of unwittingly being drawn into the Arabist/Islamist ideology, which
seeks to assimilate all cultures and religions into the Arab/Islamic fold.
I know you are a very busy woman, but please find ten minutes to read what
follows, as it is a perspective that you will not likely get from anywhere
else. I will answer some of the specific points you made in your speech, then
conclude with a brief perspective on this Arabist/Islamist ideology.
Arabs and Muslims appeared on the world scene in 630 A.D., when the armies of
Muhammad began their conquest of the Middle East. We should be very clear
that this was a military conquest, not a missionary enterprise, and through
the use of force, authorized by a declaration of a Jihad against infidels,
Arabs/Muslims were able to forcibly convert and assimilate non-Arabs and non-
Mulsims into their fold. Very few indigenous communities of the Middle East
survived this