What would you say if I told you that there’s an Australian-born Muslim professor/lawyer/political commentator who, in his spare time away from lecturing on global terrorism or appearing on Australian television, is also the lead guitarist/songwriter for a funk-rock outfit called Robot Child (with gig proceeds going to the construction of a school for girls in war-torn Afghanistan)? To most, this would probably ring of bizarre fiction, like I just described a painfully loveable character out of a Persian New Age version of Family Matters. Full story