Tokyo Governor: Earthquake Was Divine Punishment

[Nomenclature]

Tokyo Governor: Earthquake Was Divine Punishment #ishihara_damare | Japan Probe

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara has told the press he believes the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan on Friday was a form of divine punishment:

“The identity of the Japanese people is selfishness. The Japanese people must take advantage of this tsunami as means of washing away their selfish greed. I really do think this is divine punishment.”

Ishihara was contrasting the “selfishness and greed” that he perceived in Japan with the identity of the United States with “liberty” and the identity of France with “liberty, philanthropy, and equality [sic].”

I'm speechless. Looks like right wingers in Asia are pretty united in their love for the white man and in their cruel indifference to their countrymen's lives or sufferings, be it Shintaro Ishihara or Liu Xiaobo.

 

[shaktiman2010]

American liberty? Well, let's see.

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/236/godblessamerica.jpg

 

[ProsperBD]

Is this man an idiot or what?

 

[Roybot]

Nothing wrong in motivating people.

 

[shaktiman2010]

@Nomenclature,

remember what Indian PM said in British parliament? We have idiots in India too.

 

[shaktiman2010]

roy_gourav,

his statement doesn't inspire any self-respecting Japanese. It's a demotivation.

I think that guy himself is demotivated to say such thing.

 

[cross1993]

He is a Korean?

 

[Roybot]

roy_gourav,

his statement doesn't inspire any self-respecting Japanese. It's a demotivation.

I think that guy himself is demotivated to say such thing.

How so mate? Do explain?

 

[justanobserver]

Divine punishment ?!! I thought Japanese people were mainly atheistic !

 

[shaktiman2010]

I think that Governer is mentally sick or must be some Black-magic religious fundoo type. Scary!

 

[Frank Martin]

It is a punishment from Nature btw

 

[cross1993]

Divine punishment ?!! I thought Japanese people were mainly atheistic !

Japan is the belief in Buddhism and Taoism. South Korea is a fanatical Christian.

 

[shaktiman2010]

Japan is the belief in Buddhism and Taoism. South Korea is a fanatical Christian.

what about China?

 

[cross1993]

what about China?

Most Chinese people are atheists, followed by the Buddhists and Taoists, a small amount of Muslims and Christians.

 

[SAUD-404]

I think that his head got shacked by this earthquake