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So, Justin Bieber was in the Netherlands as part of his Believe world tour. He gave a concert at the GelreDome in Arnhem on April 13.
In case you've been living under a rock, Justin Bieber is the nineteen-year-old Canadian pop star who has taken the teeny-bopper world by storm.
His Dutch Beliebers had snatched up all the tickets within hours of them going on sale.
But what really caught the country's attention was Justin's visit to Amsterdam - specifically the iconic Anne Frank House.
It's not that the Anne Frank House is unused to celebrity visits (Whoopie Goldberg's been more than once), but they certainly haven't gotten many comments like the one Justin Bieber left in the museum's guest book.
According to the museum's Facebook page, Bieber wrote: "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber."
While the museum itself has called the comment "positive," (after all, we know from Anne's diary and the pictures she glued to the wall of her room in the secret annex, she was very much a lover of pop culture), many Dutch residents and members of the Jewish community were in an uproar. As is a lot of the rest of the world.
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said he "doesn't see anything wrong with it."
Buzzfeed has since reported that, during Bieber's tour of the museum, the guide mentioned that Anne was a fan of pop culture and that she probably would have been a fan of his.
Bieber and his people have remained silent.
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