China kung fu monks seek apology for ninja affront

• sEphIrOth

  31 Aug 07, 18:55

  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.
  
  "The so-called defeat is purely fabricated, and we demand the Internet user to apologise to the whole nation for the wrongs he or she did," the Beijing News said, citing a notice announced by a lawyer for the Shaolin monks.
  
  Relations between Chinese and Japanese are sensitive at the best of times, with emotions still running high over Japan's invasion and occupation of parts of China in the first half of the 20th Century.
  
  The Internet user, calling themselves "Five Minutes Every Day", said on an online forum last week that a Japanese ninja came to Shaolin, asked for a fight and many monks failed to beat him, the newspaper said.
  
  "The facts that the monks could not defeat a Japanese ninja showed that they were named as kung fu masters in vain," the Internet user was quoted as saying in the post.
  
  The Shaolin temple "strongly condemned the horrible deeds" of the user, the newspaper said.
  
  "It is not only extremely irresponsible behaviour with respect to the Shaolin temple and its monks, but also to the whole martial art and Chinese nation," it quoted the monks as saying.
  
  
• Trump_Card

  31 Aug 07, 18:57

  
• seotiblizzard

  31 Aug 07, 19:07

  
• mhcampboy

  31 Aug 07, 19:08

  i tot monks are suppose to be humble?
• newcomer

  31 Aug 07, 19:12

  fwah... monks so law savvy sia nowadays.
• popikachu

  31 Aug 07, 19:30

  lol
  
  singapore is still the best country ^^
• BÃ¥seline

  31 Aug 07, 19:34

  Yeh, they probably sub out to agencies to look into the Shaolin's interest from overseas critics and flammatory remarks.
• zheshi

  31 Aug 07, 19:44

  i thought monks don't care about social status?
• SingaporeMacross

  31 Aug 07, 19:54

  ninjas... monks... Chuck Norris beats all of them...
• wonderamazement

  31 Aug 07, 23:53

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  ninjas... monks... Chuck Norris beats all of them...

  
• NewAgeSensitiveBoy

  1 Sep 07, 15:19

  and Neo beat Chuck Norris
• Cullen[10]

  1 Sep 07, 16:30

  Originally posted by popikachu:

  lol
  
  singapore is still the best country ^^

  NOPE
  
  But we have the BEST PAID ministers....
  
  
• dragg

  1 Sep 07, 16:32

  Originally posted by SingaporeMacross:

  ninjas... monks... Chuck Norris beats all of them...

  he is one of the disciples of bruce lee right?
  
  
• euc

  1 Sep 07, 16:52

  son goku could wipe them out
• chillz88

  1 Sep 07, 16:58

  Gun them down and they are dead and defeated.
  21st Century already leh.