Anne Frank House Defends Justin Bieber

Yesterday we reported that Justin Bieber was pissing people off yet again with an “insensitive” note he left after visiting the Anne Frank House. The note read, “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.” the 19-year-old wrote. Obviously, the last part of the little note is what sparked all of the outrage, causing people to question just how highly Bieber thinks of himself.

However, the Anne Frank House is coming to the defense of the pop star in a big way, and they actually make a very good point.  A spokeswoman for the museum told AFP,

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

Even Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League is coming to the defense of Bieber.  He told the Chicago Sun-Times,

“If you read Anne Frank’s diary, she was into celebrities, she was into pop culture. So for (Bieber) to say he would have hoped that she would have been a fan, it’s a nice thing.”

You see, people! Bieber isn’t all that bad. He’s just your normal, self-absorbed, bratty teenager! We’ve all been through that stage in our life; we just didn’t have millions of people following our every move.