Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has caused Kilroy-style controversy during an interview on an Australian radio station where he was plugging his band's Sydney and Brisbane gigs. Somehow the conversation got onto Islamic fundamentalism, and so the controversial remarks rolled out.
Firstly Simmons said: "This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit, you've got another thing coming. They want to come and live right where you live and they think that you're evil."
Accusing certain Islamic cultures of treating women "worse than dogs", he continued: "You can send your dog to school to learn tricks, sit, beg, do all that stuff - none of the women have that advantage."
Needless to say, many in Australia's Muslim community weren't too impressed. Yasser Soliman, chairman of Victoria state's Islamic Council told reporters last week: "Mixing the entertainment world with the political and religious world is a minefield. I think it would be good for overseas speakers and commentators to be given some sort of advice in regards to our vilification laws here. They leave and go back to where they arrived from, but they leave behind a big mess that we have to live with."