Justin Bieber Hopes Anne Frank Would Have Been A ‘Belieber,’ Stirs Outrage

Justin Bieber, while on a visit to The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, made it known that he hopes that were the late teenage Holocaust victim alive today, she would have been a "belieber,” a term used for one of the young star's fans.

According to The Anne Frank House Facebook page, Bieber and his entourage paid them a visit last week that lasted over an hour. When the pop singer went to sign the guest book, he wrote:

“Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”

Anne Frank chronicled her experience, and that of her family, as Dutch Jews in the midst of the horrors of the Holocaust as they hid from the Nazis in what would later be published as The Diary of Anne Frank. She died at the age of 15 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany

Bieber’s egocentric entry in the guestbook at The Anne Frank House caused the world over to cringe. Over the last few months, Bieber has made headlines more than a few times for behavior that seems incongruent with the modest young Canadian kid who made it big after becoming a YouTube sensation – showing up late for concerts, cursing off paparazzi and allegedly threatening a neighbor after speeding around his Los Angeles neighborhood to name a few instances.

Not everyone, however, fully faults the teen sensation for having wished Anne Frank would have been one of his fans. The Anne Frank House spokeswoman, Maatje Mostart, has decided to cut Bieber some slack. “He’s 19,” she told the BBC. “It’s a crazy life he’s living, he didn’t mean bad… and also it’s nice that he made the effort, he didn’t have to come.”