HENRY ROLLINS Talks About Terror Accusation

February 21, 2006

Henry Rollins recently spoke to MTV.com about the controversy surrounding his most recent trip to Australia. On the flight from New Zealand, Rollins said he was reading a copy of Wall Street Journal correspondent Ahmed Rashid's book "Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia". The man sitting next to him took objection to the book and reported Rollins to the Australian government.

"The guy phoned me in to their, like, anti-terrorist board, and they found me — they looked me up," he said. "They looked up the flight and found out who was sitting in seat 10A and they got to me. And they said, 'OK, you're now a person of interest. The man next to you does not agree with your politics and he didn't like the book you were reading.' This kind of provocation, I don't respond very well to. I was furious. And so I write back, 'You can tell everyone at your office, including your boss, to go f--- themselves. This book has been read by a ton of people — I am not a threat to your state or any state or any republic.' "

In the actual text of his online response, Rollins added: "Baghdad's safer than my hometown, and your PM is a sissy."

Rollins said he isn't sure he'll ever be able to return to Australia. That doesn't upset him all that much. What does irk him, though, is that he can't take out his frustrations on the man who reported him as a potential national security risk.

"He didn't even leave his name and address [when he called], and that, to me, is pretty cowardly," Rollins said. "The next time I get out to Australia — that is, if they let me in — I am going to talk about that guy in every interview I do. And it will get to him. It's a small country, in that there aren't a lot of people there and most of the country's just sand and flies. So it will get to him."

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