According to this article, 84.6% of Greeks consider the London bombings to be a criminal act, but a surprising (to me, at least) 8% approve the incident "as an act of resistance against big powers". I'm not sure exactly why this surprises me, of course we should expect sympathizers, but in the end, did this terrorist bombing (or any) actually support a "cause"? Sure, they want the military forces out of Iraq and Afghanistan, but I am not naive enough to think that will end such bombings, especially when I hear the terrorists make statements like "Allah wants us to kill Americans" and "we are fighting those who are opposed to Islam". Excuse me? Does anyone really think the war in Iraq is about opposition to Islam?
It seems to me that the leaders of these terrorist organizations, at least the Al-Qaeda related ones, are really just working from a power hungry agenda. They can brainwash young Muslims into fighting for their cause, they can send them to die, and in the end it just seems like glorified serial killing. They don't separate between killing their own and westerners, they kill whomever, whenever, and with whatever means are possible. This is not an organization working for the will of Allah, it is an organization working for the destruction of all mankind. And I can't see being sympathetic to a cause that ruins as many of its own people as it does the "opposition".
Not surprisingly, the Greeks overwhelmingly want to stay neutral. For one thing, the Greeks don't really have the armed forces to send for this cause, for another, Greeks have always had semi-decent relations with the middle eastern countries (sans Turkey, and that is improving day by day).
Even so, with all the voiced "morality" of the terrorists, I really don't see how they are any better than the invasion forces of Iraq and Afghanistan - they are doing the same thing, just in a different (if more cowardly) way.
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