14) New Anti-Japanese protests errupt in China:


Thousands of anti-Japanese protesters march with anti-Japanese
banners through the street Saturday April 16, 2005 in Shanghai, China.(AP photo)

ABC NewsSHANGHAI, China Apr 16, 2005 — Chanting "Japanese pigs get out," protesters threw stones and broke windows at Japan's consulate and Japanese restaurants in China as some 20,000 people defied government warnings to protest Tokyo's wartime history and its bid for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat. Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing have been fueled by disagreement over the U.N. Security Council, gas resources in disputed seas and new Japanese textbooks that critics say minimize Japan's wartime offenses.

BBC News  Scarred by history: The Rape of Nanjing Thousands of bodies were buried in ditches Between December 1937 and March 1938 one of the worst massacres in modern times took place. Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Nanjing and embarked on a campaign of murder, rape and looting. Based on estimates made by historians and charity organisations in the city at the time, between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, many of them women and children. The number of women raped was said by Westerners who were there to be 20,000, and there were widespread accounts of civilians being hacked to death. Yet many Japanese officials and historians deny there was a massacre on such a scale. They admit that deaths and rapes did occur, but say they were on a much smaller scale than reported. And in any case, they argue, these things happen in times of war.

 


In depth analysis of the massacre:



Steps of Satan:

[2:208] O you who believe, you shall embrace total submission; do not follow the steps of Satan, for he is your most ardent enemy.

During the years of the Sino-Japanese war, Satan dragged the Japanese soldiers step by step into transgression untill they couldn't find a difference between a log and a Chinese person!, driven by hatred and feelings of superiority, they killed, raped and destroyed the city of Nanjing in one of the most horrible massacres of the 20th century, yet to this day the Japanese governmet tries to whitewash it.

1-Fear of authroity figures:

Private Kawata Senji (Pseudonym):
"At the time I didn't think it was wrong. I was ordered to do so. "

(At that time the Japanese people revered their emperor and follwed the orders, any orders, obediently. To this day people prefer to sell their responsbility (free choice) to others, they think that somebody else can carry their sins, however God teaches us that no soul can ever carry another's sins)[35:18] No soul can carry the sins of another soul. If a soul that is loaded with sins implores another to bear part of its load, no other soul can carry any part of it, even if they were related. The only people to heed your warnings are those who reverence their Lord, even when alone in their privacy, and observe the Contact Prayers (Salat). Whoever purifies his soul, does so for his own good. To GOD is the final destiny.

Nobody on earth can evade his or her responsbility

2-Fear of the enemy---> Superiority/Dehumanization:

Ironically those who torture, dehumanize and kill their enemies unjustly are only doing so because of fear! they are afraid of their enemies, because of their mentality of attributing powers to the creatures instead of God alone. The Japanese army had had already lost alot of troops in other parts of China, and many soldiers had grown to be afraid of the Chinese.

Sergeant Masuda Rokusuke:
"You made us suffer!"... "You made us sacrifice our buddies!"... "You made Japanese people cry!" "You, little brat!" We kicked, whipped, and beat the heads, backs and other parts of the captives to give vent to our frustration. There were at least 300 of them.... 

Investigator Ono Kenji:
"I think those former soldiers used to have racial hatred toward Chinese. Many war veterans I interviewed still unconsciously use the word, Chankoro [derogatory term in Japanese literally meaning, "Chinese brat"], or something of that kind.

(When the human being surrenders to an authority figure (instead of submitting to God alone), when he starts revering a creature, he automatically switches personalities, and the Jinn-companion/devil takes over, now this distorts the balance that God has designed (Satan serving Adam), what follows is that the Jinn-being operates in the "jealousy-mode" that Satan was the first one to exhibit in Paradise (Satan said"I am better than Adam").
The Jinn after taking over the human's body and mind, thinks he is superior to that human and consequently to every other creature (Satan's ideology is based on superiority) this was obvious in how the Japanese soldiers treated the Chinese prisoners, they called them "logs", "brats" thus completely dehumanizing them and justifying any atrocities they would do.)


3-Fear of human retribution/ of being found out:

"There wasn't any soldier who didn't rape. After things were done, usually we killed them. We'd let the women go, they'd run off, and we'd shoot them from the back. We didn't want to leave any trouble behind. If the gendarmes found out, we would be tried by court-martial. So, although we didn't really want to kill them, we did it - though, in fact, there was hardly any gendarme in Nanjing. I served in Nanjing for about two months."


In the name of war:

"On January 23, 1938, when asked about the furniture in the Nationalist Government Building by Matsui Iwane, the commander-in-chief of the Central China Area Army, Nakajima replied, "What is the matter of taking furniture when we are taking over a country and taking away people's lives? No one is going to be pleased even though we leave it there."

"What is the matter of taking furniture when we are taking over a country and taking away people's lives?"

Anything based on other than righetousness and reverence of God (reverence of God entails following the absolute unseen values) naturally results in more evil, war based on agression can only result in such horrific atrocities, same happens today in Israel and in Iraq, the incidents of Abu Graib prison were the natural result of an unjust war.

For when the soldiers know deep inside that the war they are fighting is not right, Satan uses this as a premise to engage them in more and more atrocities, same happens with the ordinary person, for example Satan may whisper to him to go have fun with his friends (just this time!) next he gets drunk, he goes to a brothel, he committs adultery, later a deep feeling of guilt overwhelms him, Satan whispers to him that he is ruined, God will not accept his repentance (to cut the way between him and God and to throw him into despair), then Satan further surrounds him with the idea that people will soon find out and his career will be finished! why not kill her? amazingly enough this individual may start an endless downward spiral of sinning just because of one incident that God would have forgiven him for, if he just hadn't resorted to despair! if he just repented immediately and refrained from following his peers!. These are the steps of Satan.

Conclusion:

Perhaps the most destructive phenomena noticed in the Japanese society (to this day) is the collective group-mentality, difference is discouraged and conformity is encouraged, why? As a survival-strategy the human being was duped by Satan to believe that if he conforms with his peers, he will survive!. In Submission however God teaches us that what grants us redemption and happiness is nothing but righetousness, what the people think of us doesn't matter as long as we seek the unseen absolute values that lead to Him.

[29:25] He said, "You worship beside GOD powerless idols due to peer pressure, just to preserve some friendship among you in this worldly life. But then, on the Day of Resurrection, you will disown one another, and curse one another. Your destiny is Hell, wherein you cannot help one another."