In his speech to the right-wing populist” Reich citizens “boasts singer Xavier Naidoo fiercest criticism. Even the Pop Academy, whose co-founder, he is distancing herself from him. Naidoo is known for his unusual theories.
In the role of the missionary Xavier Naidoo likes to show. But now he seems to have gone too far. For the proclamation of His truth, the singer an audience has chosen from the political wilderness: Before the populist right-wing so-called Reich citizens, the Germany does not recognize as a sovereign state, he preached on the Day of German Unity in Berlin’s government district on the area occupied by the USA Federal Republic and called for resistance. Of his audience, he was applauded – but since he gets a lot of scolding. He no longer wanted to comment, says his management.
in Naidoo’s hometown Mannheim irritation is great. “We distance ourselves from the questionable and confusing policy statements and the appearance Xavier Naidoo,” says the Pop Academy, whose co-founder is the lead singer. The guest lecturer of the singer was suspended until the Department have spoken to him about the matter.
“We are still an occupied country”
Who knows Naidoo, the surprising his Berlin theses not. By 2011, he said about the ARD television: “We are not free, we are still an occupied country.”. Criticism of the policies of the United States, he expressed for years. But experts now abuts the forum bitter on that Naidoo has been looking for his speech. “What is surprising that he deliberately on the stage of right-wing populist conspiracy theorists and enemies of the constitution arises,” criticizes media scholar Marcus S. Kleiner of the University of Macromedia in Stuttgart.
But how fit the Christian religious singers and the Reich Citizenship together? The Göttingen researchers democracy Jöran Klatt explained it this way: “. What unites Mr Naidoo and the citizens of the Reich, is the outrage over an alleged foreign domination and anger on a diffuse image of the enemy”
call for resistance
How much of the Mannheim with Indian and African roots wishes change, is in his speech very clearly: “I definitely want to, that we somehow manage each order in this country, “he says, because – and evokes the power of the individual. “One only has to bring even the power, to overthrow the whole thing. And if we unite, now if even a few hundred are here, then we must succeed but in any case.” Against whom exactly this call to teach resistance remains unclear, says political scientist Klatt. “This is also in the Reich citizens that way.”
From Klatts view spread Naidoo above all a conspiracy theory. The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 referred to the singer as a warning shot. “Who has accepted as truth what was said there that has the veil before the eyes, easy. Everything that has happened since then, has only helped that we have further distanced ourselves from each other, that more blood has flowed and that the direction we have really, absolutely the wrong is. ” In the region around Mannheim where many American soldiers were stationed, he had the “American occupation” always clearly had in mind.
Naidoo justify his appearance before the “Reich citizens”
media scientist Little sees a new dimension achieved by Naidoo presenting his theses for the first time on a political stage. “On an entertainment stage, it is not justified, but it is faster under,” he says. “Now it will not go under.” For a spontaneous, thoughtless action of the singer Little does not hold the speech: “This was no accident This was a deliberate staging..” Naidoo had thus made a lot of PR for the citizens of the Reich.
In an interview with the Südwestrundfunks the singer says a few days after the speech: “There are all critics of the system, as I We need this freedom to tell our not quite suited to the masses opinion..” He wanted to reach out to all people, whether it be kingdom citizens or members of the NPD, he stressed. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) eventually Nor could choose, of whom they speak.
If it therefore right ideas is criticized, he found the sad, says Naidoo. “I’m an artist, I also like to use art as a provocative means at my expression.” Small thinks this is dangerous. “The wrong combination of aesthetics and politics is the entry point for right-wing populism.”
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