Satirist, Comedian, and Hate Preacher?

Yeah, it's a weird combination for Dieter Nuhr.....German comedian, satirist, and hate preacher.

So, this begins last fall....as Nuhr starts a comedy routine which hits on several parts of radical Islam.  I watched some of the pieces and he does a very clever analysis of the mindset and character of people who get to the extreme side of Islam.

Naturally, this attracted attention....particularly from those who are close to the radical version of Islam.  They started to identify Nuhr as a "hate preacher".  This drew court action.  Yesterday, the German court said that Nuhr, based on comments and actions, has legally earned the term 'hate preacher'.

The Islamic individual involved?  What can be said is that he's Erhat Toka....a Turkish-born German who is an entrepreneur of sorts (none of the German news media players will say his business operations or how successful they are).  From the one interview I saw......he dresses in normal business fashion and appears to be fairly clever as well (probably as much so as Nuhr).

As for defining hate preacher?  This is a problem.....I came to search across various word definition forums, and found that it's not exactly loaded with definitions.  A preacher is one who tends to use the gospels or religious positions to chat over his position.  One might come to a conclusion that a hate preacher is a minister who uses his forum or platform to talk over hatred for something.

But combining a comedian and satirist into a hate preacher?  It's a pretty difficult position and one might question the judges involved and how they came to this decision.  Based on the number of German comedians who've taken negative positions against the Catholic Church.....they probably are also hate preachers.  In fact, I estimate the area of comedians and satirists......across the eighty million residents of Germany.....there are probably 300,000 hate preachers doing some form of anti-religion on an occasional basis (some are comedians.....some are hair stylists, political figures, car mechanics or second-league soccer players).

What I perceive is that a number of comedians and satirist will review this court decision and start to advertise themselves as 'hate preachers' in addition to their current title.  TV interview forums will end having to interview various characters with their professions listed across the screen, with 'hate preacher' keenly noted.  It'll eventually be a fairly common thing and the legal experts will end up asking themselves if they opened up a Pandora's Box.  My response would be....yes, indeed.