Say, say, say what you want… about Iraq. But it did warm my heart to learn that a two hour heavy metal concert was recently held on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad. This is huge news considering that the music was practically banned over the last few years as fans of were routinely threatened with violence. One of the organizers explained to USA Today that they were taking it from all sides as Sunnis accused metal fans of supporting the Mahdi Army because they wore black like members of the Shiite militia. The Shiites, meanwhile, suspected fans of being from al-Qaeda because their goatees resembled the mustacheless beards popular among hard-line Sunni Islamists.
The best part of this story is that one of the headlining headbanging bands, Brutal Impact, is made up of two Sunnis, two Shiites and a Christian. Now if we could just get that kind of unity out of the Iraqi parliament.
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