Outrage as KISS player mouths off on Muslims

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | May 14, 2004

[evolved_rage]

I was just waxing philosophically about the great bands of the 70s: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Rush, and Kiss. WTF was last one???

[68skylark]

I've never been a Kiss fan -- not really into guys with makeup. But all these comments sound pretty much right on the money.

[Clemenza]

Gene's always been a hawk on foreign policy and not just on the Middle East. I remember him making some not too kind remarks about the Russians during the 1980s.

[isthisnickcool]

Simmons had a right to free speech, but this had to be balanced against the damage done to innocent people, he said.

What would we do without the Moslems working hard to make sure "no damage (is) done to innocent people". /sarcasm off

[68skylark]

Blondie, Elvis Costelo, The Clash, The Police, ...

[Militiaman7]

Not a KISS fan, but Right-On! Gene

[Hildy]

Isn't Simmons the guy who says he's slept with something like 10,000 women? and Cher? LOL!

[musical_airman]

Bravo, Gene!

[TADSLOS]

"Mixing the entertainment world with the political and religious world is a minefield."

Yeah, tell it to Babs and the Blitzie Chicks. In the meantime, I'm going out and buying up every KISS CD I can find after I join the Gene Simmons fan club.

[The South Texan]

Gene Simmons makes a ton of sense here. He makes more since than most Democrats and even some Republicans on the issues with face with Islam. It is not the relgion of peace. If it is, I would hate to see the relgion of hate.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

The Starland Vocal Band?

[scott7278]

"Mixing the entertainment world with the political and religious world is a minefield."

You don't have to tell us -- we've got all kinds of New Age, politically correct, post-modern, anti-West garbage coming out of Hollywood and the music world.

Judging from Gene Simmons' comments, he ain't one of them.

[RepoGirl]

Rock and Roll All Nite, Party every day PING!!!!

I love Gene.

[tortoise]

Isn't Simmons the guy who says he's slept with something like 10,000 women? and Cher?

No, no, no. You are thinking of Richard Simmons.

[oceanview]

and Shannon Tweed most notably!

[blackbart.223]

"Simmons had a right to free speech, but this had to be balanced against the damage done to innocent people, he said."

Most of the damage being done to innocent people at this point in time is being done by Muslims.

[veronica]

So he claims. He was born in Tel Aviv and his mother survived the Nazi camps. He knows all about Nazis, the old and the new, and he tells it like it is.