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Mon Apr 15, 2013, 12:06 PM Apr 2013

Anne Frank Museum Defends Justin Bieber After ‘Belieber’ Controversy

By Agence France-Presse
Monday, April 15, 2013 7:07 EDT

Amsterdam’s Anne Frank museum on Monday defended teen idol Justin Bieber amid a furor over his comments that he hoped the Jewish teen who died in a Nazi camp would have been a fan.

“We think that what’s special is that a 19-year-old comes to the Anne Frank House and spends an hour visiting on a Friday night,” museum spokeswoman Maatje Mostart told AFP amid growing criticism of the pop star’s perceived selfishness.

Canadian heartthrob Bieber visited the museum-house, where Frank and her family hid from the Nazis, and wrote in the guestbook: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”

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“He could be doing other things in Amsterdam, he was very interested,” said Mostart.

“That’s more important than the commotion that we’re now seeing. That’s the positive side and we want to leave it at that.”

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