US Rocker-Henry Rollins="Possible Threat " Reading Book on Jihad

[kpete]

Henry's terror flight
From: By Kathy McCabe
February 16, 2006

US rocker and writer Henry Rollins was reported to the National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because of a book he was reading on flight to Brisbane.

A furious Rollins was informed he was "nominated as a possible threat" for reading Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia.

The incident happened on a flight from Auckland on the recent Big Day Out tour.

Rollins told Australian fans during his tour that he received a letter from a "nice woman" who worked "in one of those government areas that deals with anti-terrorism matters."

He posted the letter on his website.

"Please tell your Government and everyone in your office to go f... themselves. Baghdad's safer than my hometown and your PM is a sissy," he wrote.

http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,18160231-7484,00.html

[rodeodance]

1. tattletailers--tell on your neighbor mentality--like for even reading a

book to educate yourself!--my gawd!

[baldguy]

2. Go Henry!

[xchrom]

3. now you can't even read. sad.

but i LOVED your pm is a sissy!

normally i'm not given to loving remarks like that -- but given what happened and that it was rollins -- it's hysterical.

[KamaAina]

4. Well, he'd only be a "Minor Threat"

Minor Threat was a DC-based punk band that was popular around the time Henry Rollins emerged on the scene with Black Flag in the mid-'80s. :-)

The scary thing is, it appears that Australia is even less free than right here in Bushovia. Yikes! Where's a freedom-loving progressive supposed to emigrate these days?

[Sal316]

5. I'm reading that book.

It's good... not an easy read. It's got alot of info crammed into a seemingly short space.

[DS1]

6. The biggest threat from Henry Rollins is having your eardrums burst

when he walks into a room.

Or, moments after he walks into a room, and he ego comes around the corner and overpressure kicks in.

[BanzaiBonnie]

7. I saw him in Portland this summer

He is freaking fabulous. Rolling on the floor funny. Foul a mouth as you'd hear anywhere, but bitingly funny.

I don't care what kind of ego he has, he's got dead aim for politics.

[crikkett]

8. I wrap my books in paper

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