Yes, relatively speaking, Peter Murphy just looks old. The guys in other bands, like the Buzzcocks, just look a chubbier than they they used to.
I love Bauhaus, and I have four CDs by Peter Murphy without Bauhaus, but they're all old. I didn't even know he/they were doing anything new. I'll listen to it on Amazon or something. And I didn't know he had anything to do with being Muslim.
His wife is a ballet dancer from Turkey. They spend most of their time there, and it's rubbed off, unfortunately. Turkish pop culture is a tad on the cheesy side, not surprisingly (I spent a summer there as an exchange student when I was in HS, just before Deep came out).
Yeah, Murph lives in Turkey, and admitted in an interview some years back that he had rejected Catholocism for Islam, because it just "made more sense". He was quick to distance himself from the "violent" fanatics, though.
Still, I'm not a fan of middle eastern music, so I don't really care for the touches he adds to his new solo stuff. His first three albums were amazing, but he started to flounder when he put Holy Smoke out.
I think I've seen him ten times since '88. His last gig, at the HOB in Orlando was just weird, with his bleach blond van dyk beard and beaded slippers.