This is no bad joke - It is the Germany of today:[Please excuse the bad English! I used babelfish-translator]
MIRROR ON-LINE ONE - 13. November 2007, 18:28
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http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,517018,00.htmlPOP SINGER MUHABBET
Sample boy under Islamism suspicion
Of Thorsten Doerting and pure hard Mohr
He sings with ministers of foreign affairs and officiates as an Unicef Ambassador - the German-Turkish Popstar Muhabbet presents itself as integration miracle. Two film producers raise now heavy reproaches against him: It is to have defended the murder at the Dutch director Theo van Gogh.
Yesterday it sang still with Ministers the high song of the integration, today doubts critic substantial its reliability. The 23-jaehrige Popstar Muhabbet, which took up a "Integrationssong" on Monday with the ministers of foreign affairs of Germany and France, franc walter Steinmeier and Bernhard Kouchner, in a citizen of Berlin Tonstudio, has possibly also a less presentable side. Of it at least Esther Schapira, department chief "events of the day" reports with watching television the hessian broadcast.
Sänger Muhabbet:Model Migrant under suspicion
Singer Muhabbet: Model Migrant under suspicion
In spring this yearly was shown Schapiras together with the author Kamil Taylan turned documentary film "the day, as Theo van Gogh murdered" in the pool of broadcasting corporations. Therein the two reconstruct the murder at the Dutch film producer van Gogh by Mohammed Bouyeri. Bouyeri, dutchman of Moroccan descent, had shot its head on 2 November 2004 eight times at its victim, then with the Machete had separated and a claim of responsibility with the measurer into the chest had rammed.
When Schapiras film received a price on 20 October with the award of the "Prix Europe" in the section "Current Affairs", the authoress became acquainted with singers Muhabbet personally. It had opened the meeting with a song, had later handed TV Prix Europe over for the "multi-cultural television program of the yearly 2007" and had seen with the cause also a montage of Schapiras film.
On the after show party Schapira came first with Muhabbets manager, yokes Kuehling, into the discussion, then the singer is pushed in addition. Obviously rather applied, then Schapira reports, Muhabbet it started: "Theo van Gogh had still luck that he died so fast. I would have tortured it into the cellar closed and." Then it added: "also Ayan Hirsi Ali earned death." The Islamkritikerin and former Netherlands delegates from Somalia, living under police protection, had co-operated with van Gogh with the disputed film "tender".
"boy, are you crazy?" - "no, I mean that completely serious."
The CO author of the film, Kamil Taylan, even German Turk and Muslim, confirm the representation Schapiras. He came to it, when Schapira and managers already were deepened Kuehling into a violent dispute. Taylan addressed Muhabbet on its statements and asked it on Turkish: "boy, are you crazy?" Muhabbet has thereupon answered to German: "no, I mean that completely serious."
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Esther Schapira had done for first to make the affair public. MIRROR ON-LINE ONE is present a Mail change Schapiras with the manager, in whom it addresses the incident. It sent Muhabbets manager thereafter a DVD of their film, so that that and Muhabbet could make themselves a picture of the complete work - and Muhabbet of its statement distance takes. Whereupon neither musician nor managers would have reacted. On the day of yesterday it came then in the presence of a further coworker of the HR to a telephone call with manager Kuehling, with which that did not disclaim and only said the reproaches at least, it can nothing remember. Since Muhabbet wanted to participate nevertheless in the PR action of yesterday with the two ministers of foreign affairs and move away not from its statement, Schapira had decided to go but to the public: "that is now not simply a nice boy from Berlin."
On request of MIRROR ON-LINE ONE can remember Muhabbets manager now nevertheless, disclaimed however the reproaches Schapiras: "that was not said. Muhabbet does not even know, who Ayan Hirsi Ali is." The singer had expressed himself yesterday already into that Pool of broadcasting corporations to "Tagesthemen" to the reproaches. He finds "any murder call catastrophic" and said: "I reject these accusations completely."
Actually, thus manager Kuehling opposite MIRROR ON-LINE ONE, gave it a passionate discussion over the short montage of the price-crowned documentary film. It was drunk also some. Also it and Muhabbet at the unterschwellige emotional message of the film would have been annoyed, which they would have resentment-loaded as and would anti-Muslim have felt. Finally Schapiras colleague Kamil Taylan Muhabbet even a little "geschubst". "nevertheless that wanted anyway only away", says manager Kuehling.
Immaculate image as mediators between the cultures
Murat Ersen, as Muhabbet with correct name is called, is considered as musical integration miracle. He comes from Cologne Bocklemuend, a quarter, that is comparable with the social focus Berlin Neukoelln. Muhabbet sings on German, its music style designates it as R'n'Besk - a mixture from the American R'n'B (Rhythm and Blues) and Arabesk, to a complaining Turkish people music. Its album "R'n'Besk" published the major label SonyBMG, sold themselves approximately it to 30.000-mal - the Turkish newspaper "Huerriyet" called it the "German king of the R'n'Besk".
Particularly because of its immaculate image as mediators between the cultures politics and media often looked for Muhabbets proximity in the past years. Past year traveled it with minister of foreign affairs stone Meier to Turkey and to the Weihnachtsfeier of the foreign office was invited. It is partner of the anti-force campaign "schau not away" the youth magazine "Bravo", and played a concert in the context of the initiative "schau!" the federal family Ministry. And it already appeared on meetings with Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel as an Unicef Ambassador.
Steinmeier sees at present no reason to suspend a further co-operation with Muhabbet until the reproaches are clarified. It does not have any reference points for what is accused Muhabbet and underlined instead earnings/services of the singer. "I would have wished myself that one would have been occupied perhaps concretely with, which Mr. Muhabbet made, said in the last two years" stone Meier. It expressed itself to deal "unagitated" with the thing.
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