The television is serving a bigger purpose at this moment: last Friday, Euro 2016 started. Yes, I like football. Yes, I try to see as many matches as possible. It's a pity though that the Netherlands haven't qualified this time. I've been living in this beautiful country since 2002 and as long as I've lived here, they've always been present at European and World championships. That's why it's so tough that they haven't been able to qualify. It's even more than that: in my opinion, these championships make you feel part of a bigger whole. I know what I'm talking about, because as a Belgian, we haven't been able to qualify for many years. I can remember that it took us more than 10 years to qualify for one of these big events. Two years ago, we made our comeback in Brazil, and we played well. This year we're back in France, and expectations are high. The team has grown ever since Brazil, they have learnt from their mistakes. The question remains though: will they be able to live up to the expectations?
Europe seems to be united as one during Euro 2016. We as football fanatics seem to be enjoying this big football feast. Every country seems to be united and celebrating - except Holland, so it seems. And on the other side of the world, in the Americas, the Copa América gives the football fans in that part of the world enough reason to celebrate their football feast. However, it seems we're not all united as one. We might be celebrating, but there are other communities that are mourning at this very moment. Of course I'm referring to the LGBT community. What happened a couple of days ago in Orlando,Florida, cannot be approved of. It's disgusting. Another muslim takes action in the name of his faith and kills 50 innocent people! Why in the world is this happening? I'm asking myself, why do you kill in the name of your faith? Isn't faith a testimony of LOVE? I mean, I believe in God, because God is LOVE. Because God loves me, and everyone who wants to be loved. I can't, don't and won't understand that you kill in the name of your God, whichever name you give Him.
God is LOVE. That's the first rule I've ever learned when I accepted God in my life. So either you kill in your own name, and not in the name of God, or you don't know what faith is. Last week I received a flyer in my mailbox. It said that Islam doesn't support any act of terrorism, that it even condemns every act of terrorism. I understand why people start to put these flyers in the mail. It just seems that all these muslims don't understand what faith is. I do notice these thoughts of hatred against muslims in my own head when I see a muslim on the road. I know it's probably not fair to condemn just any muslim on the street, but maybe it's just my own weakness. I won't even say I'm sorry, because I don't feel sorry. I just wish they would stop killing our people. It makes me mad and sad that they kill non-muslims. They kill our people because we aren't muslims. Bullshit! My God would never ever command me to kill in the name of Christianity! Okay, a long, very long time ago, in the Middle Ages, we had the Crusades, but that's a very long time ago. Been there, done that. We don't do that anymore! We live in the 21st century. So the muslims don't have any excuse to keep on killing in the name of their faith! Anyone who attacks my thoughts has to remind him/herself that then, they probably approve of the killings in the name of Allah. 50 innocent people have been killed in Orlando because they are LGBT. Because they aren't muslim. Because they are a little bit different. How much longer are we going to approve of these killings by radical muslims? How much longer are we going to accept radical muslims in our modern societies?
