hitler

Remember the article about the teens who decided that hitler was their idol? I've just been reminded that i have ALOT to say on that issue.
Firstly, I do not think they actually know what they are saying. Perhaps they are one of those controversial people who seek attention by being controversial. hey, it got them on the frontpage, didn't it? albeit for the worst reasons, but still. However, it is highly worrying to see that after years of inculcating us youths with the fundamental truth that hitler was EVIL, fellow young sprouts like them have managed to plug their ears and eyes and hearts to believe what can only be blatantly wrong.
Once again, Singaporean youths are showing themselves to be the insensitive, morally lacking bunch of people that the majority are not, just because of the handful of media-hungry youths who will do anything for that 30 seconds of fame. Running around saying "heil hitler" is equally as bad as wearing the red swastika. They both glorify what ought to be put down, especially in a multiracial society like Singapore- Racism. When Prince Harry wore a red swastika in the name of fun, he was made to visit auschwitz and view first-hand what the Glorious leader Hitler did. Yet what do these handful of teens get? Media attention, a chance to show how misguided they are, and the chance to get their big heads on the newspaper. However, i can just imagine what their principal must have said about the issue in assembly the next day, and i can't help but snicker, and HOPE that they were made to attend detention, for the disrespect they show to the 6 million Jews who died during WW2 because of hitler, and the millions of others who died because of Hitler's power-hungry attitude.
I must confess that i have absolutely NO idea why they chose hitler as a representative of a great leader. Perhaps their definition of leader runs along the lines of ruthless, barbaric, power-hungry, racist, perfectionist, souless and warped. Yet i sincerely do not believe that they would subject themselves to a leadership that is half of what Hitler's was. I do not believe that they would volunteer to be part of Germany during the WW2, where they were trapped and spied upon by a insecure and suspicious ruler. So i can only conclude that they are totally devoid of an imagination that would enable them to actually view the world from a perspective different from their own mypoic ones, or that somewhere in their upbringing, something went totally awry. Perhaps we need to rethink how we, as the youths of Singapore, are viewing life. Are we too myopic? Are we so desperate to win that morals no longer mean anything to us? Have we become too entrenched in the worldly perception of fame and fortune that we have forgotten that our heart is what matters, and not the temporial body?
I have been to the holocaust museum in Israel, and just seeing this remnant of those horrifying days of WW2 is enough to make you weep. You walk through this maze of candles, thousands and thousands of them, shining, full of promise. And you know that every single one of these candles represent a child, snuffed out of this life in the gas chambers and concentration camps of the Nazis. So many families were broken apart, so many lives shattered. So much pain and so much despair, and that continuous thread of hope that links them all together. The mass graves of skeletal human beings, each body merely it's frame, the skin stretched taunt over it. You know the anorexic girls you see on the street? They are fat compared to the jews that were captured during hitler's rampage over europe. The people in the concentration camps were so thin, their bodies were a plank. You could see their pelvis from the back, and each joint and rib. THAT thin.
heavenly father, i pray that you will never let your chosen people suffer like that again. i pray that i will be a light in this growing darkness, and i pray that as your people, we will continue to spread the light that is in us, to each person we meet, till the light conquers the darkness.