Malay SAF Officer say there is reason Allah choose japan

Anyhowsay SG

The S'pore army officer has since issued an apology on his Facebook page (Yahoo! Photo).

By Angela Lim | What’s buzzing? – 27 minutes ago

An army officer in Singapore, who posted controversial remarks on the developments in Japan, has apologised for being insensitive to the grief of victims after netizens slammed him for his comments.

Calling himself Shahril Beckham on social networking site Facebook, the former OCS instructor had posted as his status, "There is a reason why God chose Japan..."

A friend of his replied to his comment saying, "Extreme dislike. This comment is in bad taste. Are they not human?"

To which the officer responded with a slew of vulgarities, calling him an "idiot". With support from others, he then went on to viciously attack the friend for "preaching" to him.

After receiving negative feedback for his insensitivity, the army officer eventually publicly apologised for his comments on his Facebook profile.

"To those who may be affected (with) my comments on "why god chose japan", I sincerely apologise. I admit (that) my following comments thereafter has been rather insensitive and unethical causing grief to others (sic). I've acted on impulse and once again, I am truly sorry," he wrote.

As Japan struggles to recover from the tragedy, netizens have taken up arms against those making similar comments online.

Source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/what-...05358-600.html

Anyhowsay SG

ditzy SG

I don't lie when I say the SAF is the most efficient organisation in our country.

Underpaid SG

That's not saying a lot. :)

Anyway, this was probably a ... I won't call it one shot, in all orgs there are people who talk before they think, the SAF is hardly unique in this. Hell, even I sometimes oopsie, and I bet you do too. Just forget about the bugger and carry on with more important things, like life, work and family.

Asromanista2001 SG

another MAT that has a mouth bigger than his brain......................

his career is finished anyway even if they don't fire him...........................

Allah ???........................he's as real as Harry Potter anyway...........................

mancha SG

Same reason as Acheh?

fudgester SG

Sigh...... 'to those who may be affected with my comments'.....

In other words, '..... to those who think my comments were wrong, even though I don't think they really were......'

Seriously, what's with all these meandering apologies? Why not just say, 'What I said was wrong, and I'm sorry for that'?

By the way, Shahril, I'm also Muslim, and I know better than to speak on behalf on God.

And I also do know that it is conduct unbecoming of a Muslim to act in such a cocky manner, as shown by the posts in this link.

Perhaps you might want to start by working on a real, unqualified apology.