page_title: Dieter Nuhr
section_title: Islamic cabaret controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Dieter Nuhr / Islamic cabaret controversy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dieter Nuhr mit seinem Programm Nuhr die Ruhe live in der Sport- bzw. Mehrzweckhalle des Gymnasiums Adolfinum in Moers English: The German comedian Dieter Nuhr during his bill Nuhr die Ruhe in the multipurpose hall of the Gymnasium Adolfinum in Moers, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.This photograph was taken with a Nikon D3000
context_page_description: Dieter Herbert Nuhr is a German comedian, carbaret artist, author and television presenter.
  Nuhr's stage program nuhr in Berlin is the first German stand-up comedy which was created exclusively for Netflix.
context_section_description: Dieter Nuhr is one of the few German cabaret artists who deals with the topic of radical sides of Islam in his programmes and books. In October 2014, a suspected Salafist pressed charges against Nuhr because he was allegedly insulting creeds and religious communities. Erhat Toka (board member of the former Muslimisch Demokratischen Union – MDU, now Bündnis für Innovation und Gerechtigkeit (BIG)) initiated the process and denoted Nuhr to be a hatemonger who agitates against Islam and invoked people to boycott Nuhr's event in Osnabrück. The Islamic scholar Bülent Ucar of the University of Osnabrück argued that Nuhr uses generalizations, feeds prejudice and brings himself up to tendentious interpretations of the Koran. The emeritus professor of theology Reinhold Mokrosch who is also speaker of the Round Table of the Religions could understand the criticism of Nuhr since he felt that it encouraged Islamophobia. Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the non-representative Central Council of Muslims in Germany was also upset about Nuhr's utterances but advised to keep calm. Mazyek declared: "If Mr. Nuhr thinks he can interpret the Koran in a fundamentalist way for the sake of satire then he has to take responsibility for this. However, it is not worth suing him and thus giving him free advertising."
  Lawyer Klaus Staeck, recent president of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, does not expect the complaint against the cabaret artist to be successful. Nuhr only exercises his freedom of opinion, which is taken very seriously by German courts. Nuhr objects to the accusation that he would be stirring up hatred against Islam. He would continue warning of the dangers of radical Islam, said the satirist to the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. He is not interested in insulting Muslims, but still wants to deal critically with Islam, he told the Welt am Sonntag. The cabaret artist warned of not publicly criticizing Islam just because of fearing the possible reactions and to not leave the protest only to the right-wingers. Nuhr, on his part, criticized the report of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, which related the term “hate preacher-image” to Nuhr in their online issue. The Tagesspiegel cited Nuhr's entry from his Facebook site: “Been accused as “hate preacher” by Islamists because I quoted the Quran correctly. Begging for regular visits in jail! Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung only asks for the opinion of the Islamists and shows understanding. The question is: Does a country, that has that kind of newspapers, even need Islamists?” Richard Herzinger comments that there were some concerns and that the complaint would especially harm the image of Muslims. On 5 November 2014, the Prosecution Office of Osnabrück announced that the proceedings against Nuhr would be closed. The prosecution justified this with the lack of “xenophobic sentiment” in the works of Dieter Nuhr as well as the circumstance, that it obviously is satire.
caption: Dieter Nuhr live in 2011
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