Regardless of one's views in regards to the West being involved outside of the West...this is sad.
The Greece @ Turkey friendly match, was none to friendly to victims of the recent France terrorist attacks.
Along with booing, whistling and other verbal messages from the Turkish crowd, "Allahu Akbar," was heard, meaning God is great, or God is greater from the Arabic to the English.
My moderate conservative position, religiously and politically is cautious of Western involvement is non-Western affairs. I personally favour a very strong Western military alliance, such as NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), but more so for defensive purposes and defensive war.
When non-Western nations are interfered with as in via Western military, a rational response from the masses such as democracy is better than different types of dictatorships, therefore, Western influence is good and appreciated, to mould a dictatorship toward democracy, should not necessarily be expected from the masses.
This Western approach although somewhat rational, seems to me to overlook the human and national pride aspect of non-Western peoples.
This corrupted within sinful human nature. (Romans 1-6 in general terms).
Many in the masses will non-rationally, support THEIR tyrant or like, over a Western foreigner.
That being stated, I reason there is no excuse or good rational and ethical reason to support terrorism in any form.
Shame on the Turkies...
(Note: November 21 via Facebook an article was linked to me and by second hand knowledge it was stated that the crowd may have not been supporting the terrorist act, but were in disagreement with the terrorists and/or Western foreign policy. I found some other articles with other views and this is a questionable position. Some may have been making noises for other reasons but this is still disrespectful. And that is only some, please see comments section).
As noted in a recent post on my other blog, even in a state of War, I view killing civilians and non-combatants as immoral and unethical.
As well, even though I have a Biblical Christian worldview and not a secular one, I strongly support the Western objective (Romans 13) to protect itself, its nations, as in maintaining law and order.
As well, I of course do not believe in the Islamic God, which to me is a cultural creation hundreds of years after Christianity and in disagreement with central Christian theology, such as the Nature of God, The Trinity, The Deity of Christ, The Atonement of Christ and Salvation By Grace through Faith Alone. That being unto good works (Ephesians 2) and not in any way, by good works.
The events at the match also makes me ponder...
I can accept that many Western Muslims do not support radical Islam and terrorism.
However, what about the Turkish population?
A member of NATO.
Should the European Union (for which I am an overseas citizen) allow Turkish membership?
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