SAF officer flamed for remarks on Japan

Just what you'd expect from insentive and rude Singaporeans really. First world economy third world society. Education failed.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, however, not wise to put up such comments in public forum. It reflects the person narrow mindset.

If disasters strike in singapore,singaporean for sure will blame the gov.
Thats all they can think of.

During WWII, both Japanese imperial army & Nazi Germany have had committed countless atrocious crimes.
But there is a huge difference between these 2 devils:
Germany had officially/publicly apologized for their crimes, retained concentration camps as reminders of their crimes, and make German nation award of their past crimes.
Japan -- DID NOT.
I would agreed that this disaster had taken numerous innocent lives.
So had the japanese imperial soldiers that had cut of heads of innocent civilian lives during WWII.

Long ago, I had once read a book (can't remember the name), citing a statement from a new generation young Jew.
He said that he does not have the rights to forgive the Nazi that had all killed the millions of Jews. Only the murdered dead Jews had THAT rights.

For your educational reference, go into Youtube, and search "rape of nanking".
Those are documentary files, NOT Hollywood scenes.
Both my grandparents (passed away peacefully), during their remaining lifetime, did not even dare to look into a Japanese straight into their eyes.

Still, I would share the grief of the 311 disaster, but younger generations must know the facts of the Pacific War during WWII.

lets forget the passed and look forwards to those who need help now !! ( japan) ,
if we carry on ,on the " SAF officer " , it will never be end
So...help the victim.....

Has anyone questioned why the focus in the headline is the profession of the subject?
Is there a need to bring in the profession of the subject?
Would things be different if the subject were a cleaner, hawker, doctor?
Are our judgements coloured as a result?

I feel very very sorry for the suffering the Japs are going thru now. Just wish that the Japs who are working here in Singapore get rid of their "arrogant"and "Mr Know-it-all" attitude. My message to them: " One day you will be humbled"

I don't know why but a lot of people have been arguing about this and I find it stupid but what had happened in Japan is just another natural disaster with a larger magnitude as usual that will inevitably take away lives in which ignorant people will be shocked and starts to question...

You guys should know that natural disasters is a part of natural phenomenon of earth and its not like specifically targeted at a race or group of people. Tsunami and earthquakes have been happening in Japan for centuries and there are some disaster that happened in other places in the past that are worse and have more causulties that what is happeneing Japan right now.

If you say God treat Japan this way, then what about many more Africans that are dying each day? What about the recession that hit America that cause many to lose their Jobs? What about the Euro Union falling to such a pathetic state and owing lots of money? If you are young, pretty and rich, are you going to stay there for the next hundred years? I know some zealots are going to say: maybe god is angry, god is trying to hint at something... blah blah... The problem is you are using human emotions to reason out and describe those happenings on earth and when things are favorable for you, you will say God is helping you, when things don't go your way(like maybe you fall sick), you will find some unrealistic explanation for it.

We will always have people who literally believe and rely on dogmas for every explanation without questioning or understanding the way and nature of this world. If people are not stupid enough to be swayed by rumours, I would not ****ing received forwarded stupid 'BBC' SMS which tells me to close the windows to avoid the radiation rain.

Good luck humans, I think we will destroy ourselves first before nature takes us.

Its funny how people who posts insensitive and rude remarks on sensitive issues later apologise publicly. Somehow it seems like their brain cells start to multiply only after being slammed.

If there is a so called "God", all this should happen..all this are natural thing is going to happen sooner or later... !
WHERE WE GO TO AFTER THIS LIFE DOES NOT DEPEND ON OUR RELIGION AS ACCORDINGLG TO BUDDHISM, IN FACT THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT TO PRAY TO WORSHIP, OE EVEN BELIEVE IN THE BUDDHA OR SO CALLED G O D TO HAVE A GOODATER LIFE OR GO TO HEAVEN OR TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE .
What happens to us after this life depends on how we conduct ourselves in this present life.
The path to heaven or eternal life is not by faith or worship, but by doing good and avoiding evil.

The BUDDHA never said anything like"worship me and you shall be rewarded". BUDDHA had also never threatened to punosh anyone should they do not believe in Him or follow His Teaching.

Buddha had stressed that everone should seek, understand and experience the Truth for themselves, and not to have blind faith in anyone or anything.
Buddha had said that there is nothing wrong in doubting or even qusetioninh Him, as most people will take time to understand... Buddha want us to Think and be a Thinker and not to be a Blind Follower in Him or othe religion..

Thus all people who are a believer of religion, be it Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Taiost,Christians....etc And evenatheists, are all able to enjoy a blessed afterlife...eternal life..or go to "Heaven"... BUT of course provided, they have been "GOOD' people .

Japan disaster has nothing to do with country history, cultural etc. This disaster has a much broader meaning, this disaster has threaten the existing of human. It all begin when we take more than what we need from the nature. When volcanoe erupt in the past, human harvest the natural resource in the Volcanoe, we are greedy and we dig in deeper into volcanoe to harvest more. When oil erupt in middle east, we harvest the oil, we are greedy, we drill in further down to draw more oil. We, human do not understand the meaning of 'give and take' and want to take more from heaven by digging and drilling. This in turn has soften the earth core, accelearate the pole shift, accelerate the green house, accelarate to what happen today. More disaster will come in all part of world as the Earth is now in a very unstable state. There is no longer guarantee that there will be no natural disaster in Singapore.

let's just help out or pray for these people regardless.

the japanese are very strong will. they are coping, and the people trying to contain the nuclear fallout are great heroes. so are those who went on rescue and retrieving corpses; some of which are probably decomposed and gory.

singaporeans including i are really......fortunate. we have alot to learn from this disaster and these japanese even though they are now undergoing this hardship. i am sure they will rise again.

We should distinguish between "man-made" catastrophes and "natural" catastrophes caused by nature.For instance the atrocities committed in War time like WWll were man-made. Those who believe in God could say the present tsunami Is "Divine Retribution". Those who believe there is no God say it was caused by Nature .The important thing to note is that "man-made" catastrophies could have been avoided as they were activated by man, whereas "naturalCatastrophes " caused by Nature cannot be avioded as can be explained scientifically.

I am sad on hearing all these comments about God punishment. Are we God in any way to pass such comments. Please be sensitive to those who have suffered this triple blow and just help to lessen their grieve and suffering. Dont play God.

The fools said in his heart that "there is no God".. But there is a place called Hell that is reserve for them.

Sure, God sure did 'choose' Japan - if God is the God of Einstein, inanimate, constant, without personality or biases and one made up of purely natural elements (i.e. nature).

What's wrong with that? So what if God 'chose' the Jews for the holocaust? Or he chose the Hindus in the Hindu Kush or the Chinese in Nanxing? It's not the statement, the term God simply should mean random events.

There is no God, and it's a scientifically proven fact. God is just random natural events, nothing more.

The moral of the story is, if u have nothing nice to say, then just keep ur comments to urself... especially on Facebook.

Let's all pray for the Japanese.. to strive thru this adversity... :)

Im so sick of everyone using forums & blogs to bad mouth about Japan, If everyone is stuck in the past instead the future you got some serious problems. These people had nothing to do what has happened, ITS A NATURAL DISASTER!!!! So screw everyone that shows hate & I hope Karma shows up on your door step. BTW, just wait for a disaster to hit here in Singapore, It will be amazing how many will be screaming for help once you lost everything & loved ones

man's faults, blame god; man's ruins,blame devil; man's mistakes, blame others; man's damages, blame authorities; man, oh man...sigh!!!

There is a reason for the hatred so does the love has. If the disaster happened in 1946, what would you express? History hasn’t changed, only the time the disaster occurred has changed, but people think in a different way! It is only because you don’t have a reason for the hatred.
But remember, a lot people in this world never forget what happened to their country, their sisters, brothers, and people in WW2.