The conspiracy theories have been floating around in his head for a long time: Read an interview with Xavier Naidoo here that was conducted in 1999 and was published in Musikexpress at the time.
Recap: Xavier Naidoo, one of the most commercially successful German-speaking pop musicians to date thanks to chart hits such as “She doesn’t see me”, “This way” and “Not from this world”, was seen in a video in 2020 in which he spoke against refugees and political Correctness and was consequently thrown out of the “DSDS” jury. He was still wandering around “from pop star to populist,” so to speak Georg Diez in 2014 at Spiegel Online wrote. Evidence of this included Naidoo’s appearances at Monday demos of the new right, and videos of this circulated on the Internet. In them you saw and see and hear how Naidoo denies Germany a constitution, considers the country to still be occupied and should be banned as a warmonger. At that time, Naidoo continued to push forward and spoke of adrenochrome, denied man-made climate change, accused Angela Merkel of killing our pensioners, pointed out plans to destroy Germany, called the SPD and the Left fascists, was interviewed by Eva Herman and so on.
Spiegel online and other media Already back then, they reminded us that musician, religious fanatic and casting show juror Naidoo was not just now attracting attention with his right-wing theses and conspiracy theories – he had already given an interview in the ARD morning magazine in 2011 after he could no longer be taken seriously or was classified as dangerous had to. In fact, Naidoo’s talk goes back much further: in an interview with Musikexpress in June 1999, he spoke, among other things, of competition between religions, crusades, the apocalypse and Mannheim against America. For example, Naidoo admitted that he was a racist, “but a racist regardless of skin color. I’m no more racist than any Japanese person.”
Read the complete interview (in old spelling) by Peter von Stahl from our archive here.
ME: Good day!
Xavier Naidoo: (laughs) “When I see him – that’s what you always say? But it’s a nice greeting – primarily south of the Black Forest and over to Bavaria in the God-fearing areas, near the Pietkong.”
Sounds like you have problems with the Pietkong leaders – Pope, bishops, cardinals?
“In general, I’m rather suspicious. I try to keep my faith pure and not include any religions.”
Don’t all people basically believe in the same God?
“No! I am a Christian. I believe in Jesus Christ and in his Father. It’s not uninteresting what I call you. You too want to be called by your name. If the name of my God were Allah, then he would have no son. That’s not my God, there’s nothing to discuss.”
During your community service, you came across the Bible out of boredom. And if by chance there was a German translation of the Koran lying around?
“I don’t think I would have been so fascinated by the Koran. Where I opened the Bible, what I read was so current that it could have been a report.”
Had you already dealt with faith before this time?
“Like everyone, I too was searching in the face of the millennium. I found what I was looking for in 1993. I had previously considered many things. A lot of things I condemn now – fortune telling, astrology.”
Do you at least tolerate other people believing in a different God?
“My upbringing allows me this: I always have respect for other people. But he will never be able to tell me that his God is above mine. Any Muslim will be able to have an excellent argument with me about this – why shouldn’t I do the same? For me, this is a legal competition between religions that is now about to be decided.”
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