Slovenia Urged to Ban Croatian Nationalist Singer Marko Perkovic Thompson

[RockSushi]

[QUOTE]Politicians called for Croatian singer Marko Perkovic Thompson to be barred from playing a concert in Slovenia, alleging his nationalist lyrics incite hatred, but organisers insist there is no legal basis for a ban.

The mayor of Maribor, Andrej Fistravec, said that Marko Perkovic Thompson’s concert on May 20 in the south-eastern Slovenian city should not take place, claiming that the Croatian singer promotes fascism, media reported on Wednesday.

“In Maribor there is no place for iconography and symbolism causing further division after World War II, and there is no room for fascism,” Fistravec told Slovenian News Agency, STA.

“World War II caused much unnecessary destruction, pain and tragedy... I can’t sympathise with any form of Nazism or fascism,” he added.

Fistravec cited Thompson’s use of the Croatian WWII Ustasa fascist chant ‘Za dom spremni’ (‘Ready for the Home(land)’) in his 1991 wartime song ‘Cavoglave’, as well as his songs explicitly connected the Ustasa movement.

In 2009, his performance of the Ustasa-praising song, ‘Jasenovac and Gradiska Stara’ – the names of Ustasa concentration camps – shocked Croatia and the region.[/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatian-nationalist-singer-s-problems-with-concert-in-slovenia-04-06-2017[/URL]

Now ban Ceca and several other bands and then we can rest peacefully.

[AntonioR]

Those damn fascists spreading hatred everywhere they go:

[video=youtube;kj-49WLIGqI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-49WLIGqI[/video]
(translation: talking with the wind about his family and birthplace and asking to take him home)

Even in that "controversial" Cavoglave song, he is just telling the [U]invading Serbian army[/U] in the [U]middle of the war of independence[/U] that they shall not enter Cavoglave, his birthplace, as long as he and his comrades live. How rude of him. You can watch the translated version here: [url]www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbCp2WgkYw[/url]

Jasenovac and Gradiska Stara is not even his original song and he doesn't perform it on concerts. A news site that would probably be banned on Facepunch reported in 2003 that he was recorded singing it on some private party or something God knows when and they uploaded an MP3 on the site. It may not even be him.

He got into all this trouble mostly because he is popular among the right, and occasionally somebody in the crowd wears some inappropriate WW2 clothing or shouts something they shouldn't. But that is more the fault of the organizers of the concert and security IMO.

TLDR: Media blowing it out of proportion.

[Ghost656]

I see Slovenia has nothing better to do lately?