From Howard Hampton's mind bending review of Heavy Metal Islam, by
sometime Stones pick- up guitarist Mark
LeVine:
"An ex-Mossad hairdresser
is scarcely more anomalous than disheveled Moroccan riot grrrls, virtuoso
Egyptian metalheads, Lebanese “muhajababes” (young women wearing full head
scarves, army fatigues, tight black T-shirts and Hezbollah wristbands),
Tupac-influenced Palestinian M.C.’s, “the Israeli Oriental death-doom metal
band Orphaned Land”...and rapt Iranian Iron Maiden acolytes...In theocratic
Iran, when Arthimoth’s leader wears a T-shirt reading “Your God Is Dead,” he’s
risking a fate much worse than being suspended from school..."
In a thankfully unrelated development , the new Mayoress of Aberswyth , Wales ,
is threatening to end the town's 30 year film ban on Monty Python's Life Of Brian
Ms Sue Jones-Davies played Judith Iscariot, in a nude scene with the film's hero, Brian, played by the late Graham
Chapman.
"I got the part because somebody dropped out," she said. "I had the same agent as John Cleese and was recommended for the part.
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