Madonna has risked upsetting her European fans by comparing many mainland countries to Nazi Germany.
The pop superstar, who was promoting her new album Rebel Heart in a Bbc interview, revealed she's concerned about the future of France and other nations.
The 56 year old said, "(Album song) Ghosttown is like, for me, a kind of foreshadowing of two people living, like, the only lovers left alive in a post-apocalyptic world. I feel like that's where we're heading for if we continue to behave the way we behave, to treat one another the way we're treating one another, to maintain this level of intolerance and discriminatory prejudice... hateful behaviour towards other human beings who are different than you are.
"France was once a country that accepted people of colour. It was once a place that artists escaped to, whether it was Josephine Baker or Charlie Parker or writers, painters, whatever. It was a country that embraced everyone and that encouraged freedom in every way, shape, or form - freedom of expression, artistic freedom, for example.
"Now, it's completely gone... It's like we're living in a crazy time. It feels like, you know, Nazi Germany. All of these people... the intolerance, the level of intolerance that's going on is really scary.
"It's not just happening in France, it's all over Europe, but it's specifically in France. Anti-Semitism, I think, is at an all-time high, people are becoming, behaving, and reacting in extremely fearful ways, so it's scary."
Her comments come a month after the horror of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris, where gunmen shot and killed 12 people at the publication's headquarters over cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad.
At the time, Madonna took to Instagram and wrote, "These are very scary times we are living in. Ignorance breeds Intolerance and fear. We can only fight darkness with light! We are all Charlie!"
Source:http://hub.contactmusic.com/madonna/news/madonna-europe-is-becoming-more-like-nazi-germany_4612455
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