Yusuf Islam "appalled" at Rushdie's misunderstanding

In other words, Rushdie should only be killed in a Sharia state. He is apparently saying that he only opposed the death fatwa because Rushdie lived in England, where Sharia was not in effect.

YET.

He nowhere says that there should be no death penalty for blasphemy.

...and nor will he. Ever.

Anytime I see this guys name I feel anger on a level that I can't explain.

Cat Stevens is the worst type of traitor that anybody can imagine. I don't know how many Jews out there have converted to Islam, but this guy is just as bad. I know he is Greek and my understanding is that he was an Orthodox Christian that converted to Islam.

The day this traitor dies and goes to the Hell he has chosen, is a day of great rejoice to me.

I can't even read one thing this guy has to say.

Niv

*Pussycatstevens is always fu*ng around with rhetorical nonsense

What a lying singer-songwriter!

Check the original 1989 piece in the nyt in which Yusuf makes a repeated call of Rushdie's head.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-cat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Re: "The book itself destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis".

Bullshit. I'm getting like Mike Savage. "I can't take it anymore". (BTW, I think the Savage comes from the same section (Jamaica section) in Queens where I grew up,when his family moved from the Bronx.) It's a good idea to get rich and move from Jamaica. God bless the Savage.

'Yusuf Islam' is lying. I distinctly remember him calling for Rushdie's death in 1989 on BBC television. I think it was the 'Question Time' show.

Cat is an airhead from popular music who is in way over his head.

Let him address the hateful passages of the koran, and then try and convince us about the religion of peace.

The fool made his bed and he must sleep in it.

Schmegel,
You're right. The BBC show is cited in the NYT article linked above.

Posted by: The fanatic

Cat Stevens is the worst type of traitor that anybody can imagine. I don't know how many Jews out there have converted to Islam, but this guy is just as bad. I know he is Greek and my understanding is that he was an Orthodox Christian that converted to Islam.

I could not agree more,considering the history of greece and the turks

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2006/10/wanker.html

"...if Mr. Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help, ''I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like.''

''I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is,'' said Mr. Islam, who watched a preview of the program today and said in an interview that he stood by his comments."

Thanks for the link to NYT article. Very revealing.

Mr. Islam says "I never supported the Fatwa."
Meanwhile he would call the originator of the fatwa and tell him exactly where Mr. Rushdie could be found?

The man comes across as a coward. Another "peaceful Muslim" who would never commit an act of violence in the name of Islam - only cheer on those who would.

Why didn't British citizens take notice of these developments. It's been more than FIFTEEN YEARS that British Muslims have been letting everyone else know, point blank, that they have no respect for others.

I see Cat Stevens learned his Islamic catechism well, particularly the part about taqiyya dancing.

I love the "Tea for the Tillerman" album like everyone. That's his first album before he turned Muslim. After, the albums kept getting wierder and wierder and then he converted to Islam and became the total nutcase he is today.

this guy is a total nutcase aside from being a good singer a long time ago. I like the comment some one wrote above, "He has made his bed and is helpless and has to sleep in it."

My view is if he doesnt the Islamist will make sure he does permanently. Cat Stevens didnt realize what he was getting into, and was just looking for spirituallity in a time when drugs and fame was getting to him. Now he finds if he gets out of islam they will kill him and also knows that he got into something not spiritual. He is stuck and must play the game to the end.

"I see Cat Stevens learned his Islamic catechism well, particularly the part about taqiyya dancing." -remote_control

And Robert Spencer adeptly demonstrates his mastery of anti-islamic catechism; first the tauromaquia then the estocada.

Touche and Bravo - you must be feeling better.

Does anyone still like his music? I hate to say this but I still do, even though he is a taqiyya spouting liar. I just can't get rid of his songs from my iPod. Songs like "Morning Has Broken", "Wild World", "Lady D'Arbanville", "Moonshadow"...

Cat Stevens was a different person compared to this current Yusuf Islam. This is just tragic.

i never liked his music from the first time i heard it.
pretentious, whining nonsense.
and now - no change !

I am still trying to wrap my head around the issue of him being a musician, when the playing of music is considered haram in many Islamic societies. He has been cozy with quite a few fundamentalist-types, and I would think they would put him on notice for his profession.

"When asked about my opinion regarding blasphemy, I could not tell a lie and confirmed that - like both the Torah and the Gospel - the Qur’an considers it, without repentance, as a capital offense. The Bible is full of similar harsh laws if you’re looking for them."

Where does the Bible state that blasphemy is a capital offense? And more importantly what does that have to do with the original question anyway?

I still like his music, but he's a fool like Springsteen, Cougarmelloncamp-melloncamp. Oh and the dixie sluts too.

I'm with you, Niv.

I turn off the radio when he's played. My favorite station, WFUV from Fordham University (owned, operated, and partially funded by "The Jesuit University of New York)gives him air-time constantly. I'm so mad at them that I won't contribute toward them at all. What good dhimmis they are, and probably don't even know it. (And probably wouldn't want to "know" it.)

I cannot STAND that traitor. Hopefully, there's a special circle in hell for his ilk.

May 23, 1989

Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie

''I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is,'' said Mr. Islam, who watched a preview of the program today and said in an interview that he stood by his comments."

From the New York Times link cited above
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-cat.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login

Cat Stevens didnt realize what he was getting into, and was just looking for spirituallity in a time when drugs and fame was getting to him. Now he finds if he gets out of islam they will kill him and also knows that he got into something not spiritual. He is stuck and must play the game to the end.

Posted by: Francis M on February 15, 2007 02:51 PM

Francis, I think you are being way too charitable towards Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam). If what you say (about his inability to escape from Islam) were true he would at the very least have kept a low profile and not said anything incendiary. Instead, he has gone on the offensive and quite openly stated that Salman Rushdie should have been burned in person (as opposed to his effigy that was burnt during the muslim protests over his book). I find Cat Stevens utterly detestable and despicable.

imited knowledge of the scriptural texts, this is from some smart convert to islam.. cat stevens you should shut up and sing! l am sick of these people who use their fame to make statements, like l give a frig about this fool. he is a convert to islam, he confessed he has limited knowledge to islam, so you know he is a fool, tell him to jump off a cliff!

A Sharia state does not exist in democracy so to even think it as his opinion on what should happen rather than him saying it should not happen in a Sharia state. His loyalty is elsewhere and this attitude is due to being brainwashed praying too much he has the song stuck in his head called Infidel free expression.

I like how the Bible says it gives God a headache if you pray to him repeatedly using the same demands. Not in those words but it's annoying to some extent I guess i would be if I were God hearing your whining.

A Sharia state does not exist in democracy so to even think it as his opinion on what should happen rather than him saying it should not happen in a Sharia state. His loyalty is elsewhere and this attitude is due to being brainwashed praying too much he has the song stuck in his head called Infidel free expression.

I like how the Bible says it gives God a headache if you pray to him repeatedly using the same demands. Not in those words but it's annoying to some extent I guess i would be if I were God hearing your whining.

A Sharia state does not exist in democracy so to even think it as his opinion on what should happen rather than him saying it should not happen in a Sharia state. His loyalty is elsewhere and this attitude is due to being brainwashed praying too much he has the song stuck in his head called Infidel free expression.

I like how the Bible says it gives God a headache if you pray to him repeatedly using the same demands. Not in those words but it's annoying to some extent I guess i would be if I were God hearing your whining.

Oh baby baby it's a wild world....

I used to like some of the Catman's music until he went crazy and found the real "Moonshadow".

Good grief jesusisthelamb! Just when I was getting used to your accidental double-posting, you hit me with a triple!:p

That persistent high-pitched whirring sound you hear in the background is this taqqiya spouting traitor's futile attempt at backpedaling. Only Nazism and Communism ever provided such a black & white decision path equal to that presented by Islam.

Taqqiya represents one of the ultimate ethical and moral crimes against humanity. Those who uphold its validity are the constant enemy of mankind. There can be no accommodation with those who espouse a doctrine that permits taqqiya. It is nothing more than a sordid excuse to use any and all methods, no matter how heinous or barbaric, in Islam's vile pursuit of global domination.

"I like how the Bible says it gives God a headache if you pray to him repeatedly using the same demands."

The spiritual world's version of Spamming? [rimshot]

"I still like his music, but he's a fool like Springsteen, Cougarmelloncamp-melloncamp. Oh and the dixie sluts too."

Don't forget that country music icon from the Deep South, Dolly Parton, who has collaborated twice with Yusuf Islam and who still thinks he's such a wonderful nice man. That's as good an indicator as any of the mainstream prevalence of the PC disease, when someone as down home as Dolly is infected. (Oh, and if you're going to excuse Dolly on account of ignorance of facts, sorry: that's no excuse for anybody who has their faculties otherwise intact.)

I did not send it 3 times on purpose my post and do not know how and why. I have had some doubts about this site it keeps logging me out and I have to come back in. Is this site being hacked in some way or me? I mean it would not suprise me, and just because I know there must be Jihad nutters out there I don't feel safe even infront of my computer on this site anyway. If anyone has had doubts or weired things happening with this site speak up please then see what can be done if you notice this too.

Including weired phonecalls that sound asian, or the service provider is located in a Muslim sound of town.

You can contact Cat stevens/yusaf islam and tell him what you think of his "clarification" at his website

http://www.mountainoflight.co.uk/contact.html

Since most of you dont dwell in an Islamic state/nation you can be assured he would also not declare a fatwa on your heads.

How droll.

Steven Demetre Georgiou Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam said

I could not tell a lie and confirmed that - like both the Torah and the Gospel - the Qur’an considers it, without repentance, as a capital offense. The Bible is full of similar harsh laws if you’re looking for them.

Muslims call for, and carry out, death sentences for non-believers on a daily basis. Christians? Uhhh, no. That difference is not really significant in Yusuf's twisted brain. I guess his rudimentary knowledge of the Qur'an didn't cause him to mention all the love and forgiveness that Islam teaches, after he agreed that Rushdie should be killed for blasphemy, right?

Steven Demetre Georgiou Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam has 18 years to ponder the firestorm that he kicked up by his statements, and this is the best he can come up with? Lame.

I get tired of hearing about blasphemy, we all are sinners in the eyes of the Lord. You can practice all you want, but the facts are, when you die, everything about you is dead. Your spirit is only a promise by the Lord, and then, only in the final day. I promise you, everything you think is good is bad, and everything bad is good. You have no way of knowing what is blasphemis to the Lord or what is righteous to the Lord. So, do unto others as they should do unto you, if not, then let the Lord sort-em out !

Cat Steven's original (1989) comments can be found here.

A sample from the article:

By CRAIG R. WHITNEY
New York Times
May 23, 1989

LONDON, May 22 -- The musician known as Cat Stevens said in a British television program to be broadcast next week that rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, ''I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.''
The singer, who adopted the name Yusuf Islam when he converted to Islam, made the remark during a panel discussion of British reactions to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's call for Mr. Rushdie to be killed for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his best-selling novel ''The Satanic Verses.''

He also said that if Mr. Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help, ''I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like.''

''I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is,'' said Mr. Islam, who watched a preview of the program today and said in an interview that he stood by his comments.

[End of excerpt].

Above, the mature and reflective Yusuf Islam states:

"However, the application of such Biblical and Qur’anic injunctions is not to be outside of due process of law, in a place or land where such law is accepted and applied by the society as a whole."

In other words, he is saying kill them according to Islamic law (where the phrase "due process of law" would have an entirely different meaning than in the west). Regarding "in a place or land," that phrase is a red herring because the Ayatollah's fatwa was intended, and was understood by followers, to be applicable over the entire planet.

Here is another example of Yusuf Islam's feeble attempts at evasion:

Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
New York Times,
07 Jan, 2007

[Q:] "So would you say you have contempt for a terrorist group like Hamas?"

[YI:] "I wouldn’t put those words in my mouth. I wouldn’t say anything on that issue. I’m here to talk about peace. I’m a man who does want peace for this world, and I don’t think you will achieve that by putting people into corners and asking them very, very difficult questions about very contentious issues."

There you have it. Yusuf Islam thinks that "peace" will not be achieved by asking people difficult questions about contentious issues.

Please, Remote_Control don't tell me Dolly Parton is workin for the dark side too!

Cat Stevens should follow his moon shadow into oblivion like John Schneider at the Dukes of Hazard.....not even their mothers care what they so why does anyone care what a worm is oozing out as it takes up space in life.

What a load of BS. I distinctly remember him being interviewed on a television program. He said, and am I quoting from memory here, "If someone insults Allah, then yes, he deserves to die".

There was no ambiguity about it. He fully supported the call for Rushdie's murder.

I also remember a later interview, I think it was in print this time, when he was asked about his previous support for the murder. He then claimed that he was wrong to state it. He said that he had done so because he was new to Islam was full of enthusiasm for it.

So in other words, he knew just enough about his new faith to be dangerous.

Posted by: remote_control

Don't forget that country music icon from the Deep South, Dolly Parton, who has collaborated twice with Yusuf Islam and who still thinks he's such a wonderful nice man. That's as good an indicator as any of the mainstream prevalence of the PC disease, when someone as down home as Dolly is infected. (Oh, and if you're going to excuse Dolly on account of ignorance of facts, sorry: that's no excuse for anybody who has their faculties otherwise intact.)

Well I never thought Dolly Parton would fearture on my blog

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/02/two-wankers-and-one-dumb-bimbo.html

EricinTexas

He's probably getting into music with the jihadists blessings because it's a nice way to make money. Don't be surprised if he goes out on tour, even in this country, because many people will want to see ol' Cat Stevens again for nostalgia's sake.

Thank God his recent up was online for free. I don't want to give a cent to him. But at the same time he still sounds good, like he did 30 years ago.

Anybody whose name is "Islam" is on my special list. It ain't a good list either. This guy was ok when he did Tea for the Tillerman, but since he turned Islamic, I do not care what he sings or plays; he's on the "list."

Isn't music verboten for the "faithful?" This guy got a special dispensation from allah? There ain't no representative of allah since the 7th century. So who gave him a pass?

shiva, good entry on your blog. Your final wry observation, "INTERESTING TO NOTE He doesnt use his islamic name", is probably answered by $$$. His pre-Islamic music is probably copyrighted under his former name and he has to keep that name on it to get royalties (i.e., to get his Islamic booty from the West he is perniciously parasitic upon).

Dear Shiva

About his being half Greek, I've read somewhere the following story of one of the reasons why he converted to Islam. Cat Stevens was booked up to play a gig in Greece, something he was very much looking forward to because of his Greek roots. However, the same night there was an important football match, so everyone went there instead and hardly anyone turned up to hear him sing. For Greeks, one of the worst things that anyone can do is convert to the religion of their enemies, the Turks, so Cat Steven's conversion could have been very much a way of trying to spite his fellow Greeks for rejecting him.

Cat Steven's is starting to record again, has been in glossy mags like 'Hello', and may want to tour, including I presume in America. That could well be why he is trying to take back what he said about Salman. If not, why has it taken him so long, about twenty years, to deny it all?

'Followed by a moon shadow'- that's probably the closest when trying to analyze the psyche of this bearded, kaftan and coffee-filter wearing moonbat.

When I saw him on some TV-program some years ago hearding a bunch of 9-year old hijabbed girls to the indoctrination centers I just knew he was a pedophile.

Prove me wrong!

http://sheikyermami.com/2006/12/22/this-guy-has-been-followed-by-a-moon-shadow/

"this guy is a total nutcase aside from being a good singer a long time ago."

I can tell you from a professional standpoint he's a VERY POOR SINGER.
He has no power and his range is one octave at best.
I've heard better buskers on most street corners.

His songwriting skills are no better,in my opinion there infantile.
He's just another rich kid got lucky.

For everyone of his kind theres 100 artists from poor backgrounds who never made it.
He's like a form of artistic blockage like all the rest of them.

His musical efforts are just a waste of studio time and electricity.