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
I don't lie when I say the SAF is the most efficient organisation in our country.
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.
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...........................
Same reason as Acheh?
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.