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Sir Dr. Ara Vartkes Darzi, the new British Healthcare Minister, studied for six years in Baghdad College (the nationalized American Jesuits High School in Baghdad). He passed the State Baccalaureate Exams in 1978 (the same year I passed these exams). Then, he immediately left Iraq to study in the Medicine School in Dublin. For elementary school, Ara went to Al-Nidamiya (former Frank Ayni) School (the nationalized Jewish School in Baghdad).
The BBC published the story saying that Ara was born in Armenia and raised in Ireland, which is not true.
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Thank you for providing this detailed information about A.Darzi.
ReplyDeleteI've read an article in The Independent (British newspaper) about A.Darzi, who addressed an issue in British Parliament regarding artificial IVF (In-Vitrio-Fertilization) and was in support of it as well as in support of children adoption by gay and lesbian couples.
I've felt disgusted and became suspicious about his "Armenian" roots, because as far as I know true Armenian people are mostly Christians.
Then I've found your website and everything was clear to me.
He was a British Labour Party member because he was a leftist and a Jew.
True Christian will never support anything which is against God's Law.
Toronto
The comment from Toronto is so confused. Mr Darzi is a Christian of the Orthodox Church. The primary school referred to was established by jews in Iraq before the creation of Israel (in 1948). Most jews left Iraq and the school was then attended by christians and moslems.
ReplyDeleteMr Darzi's ethical convictions are personal and secular, i.e. not following any religious doctrine. In fact, as I'm sure the Toronto writer must know the jewish Old Testament abhors homosexuality. This attitude to homosexuality is similar in the original Christianity and in Islam. Why is the writer confusing 'secular' thinking with 'Jewish' thinking?
Regarding his Labour party affiliation: there are as many jews in the British Labour Party as in the Conservative Party. Politics in today's Great Britain, to a great extent, is religion-blind after centuries of bloody revolutions and natural evolution.
I listened to Lord Darzi's Dessert Island interview on BBC Radio 4 this morning and was intrigued as a Baghdadi of the same generation (I am 5 years younger) and background who moved to Britain three years after he left Baghdad and had a similar upbringing (except for my ethnicity and relegious origins). So I tried to research the schools that Lord Darzi attended in Baghdad on Google and fell on your blog.
ReplyDeleteYou stated that his primary school was Al-Nidhamiya, however that was my secondary school and only accepted pupils from the 4th grade (15+) years so I am not sure that this is accurate.
I was disappointed to hear the esteemed Lord Doctor emphasise that his school in Baghdad was Jewish and Armenian which could not be entirely correct at that time, for while there may have a few Arminians and Jewish pupils at whatever state school he attended (schools were nationalised in the early 70's all over Iraq) I am sure that the majority of his teachers and class mates were muslim and if they were to hear his interview as I did they would have been even more disappointed by this statement.