The Assyrians are not Muslims nor are they Arabs, not sure why they're being mentioned in an Arab OC thread. They are one of the oldest Christian populations in the world and they have their own language and culture.
The closest group Assyrians are similar to in terms of culture and genetics are Armenians, with the exception of the language of course.
They're not Arabs and describing an Assyrian as an "Arab" would most probably be considered an insult, but most of their diaspora has origins in Northern Iraq. That's why organized crime from the Assyrian community is thrown under the same roof of "Arab OC".
I mean, a majority of the Moroccan and Algerian criminals in the Netherlands, France and Belgium consider themselves Berber instead of Arab as well. Yet they as well get mostly described as "Arab OC".
That's not completely true either, Assyrian Homeland is divided between north Iraq, northwestern Iran, northeastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey. For example if you go to Detroit or Chicago, most of them may be from Iraq, but if you go to Sweden or Germany, most of them are from Turkey.
Sweden has a lot of Turkish Assyrians, true. I'm even willing to bet that the majority of "Turks" in Sweden are, in fact, Assyrians.
In the USA and Australia on the other hand, the vast majority of them are from Iraq. It's in places like Detroit (with the so-called "Chaldean mafia") and Sydney (with gangs like "Dlasthr") that Assyrian OC had the most exposure in the English-speaking media.
In Sweden there was the "Södertalje Network", but their leader - Bernard Khouri - is an Assyrian from one of the Arab countries as well.
