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More details of the meeting I mention in my own piece below. From the National Post, with thanks to the many who sent this to me:
TORONTO - Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was the guest of honour at a Toronto fundraising dinner hosted by an organization that has since been identified by the Canadian government as a "front" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.In a videotape of the 1998 event obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a "so-called new society" created by a "so-called religion" and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to "lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land."
The Jerusalem Fund is one of four "fronts" named in a secret Privy Council Office memo that was sent to Jean Chretien, then prime minister, on May 23, 2000, discussing what it called groups that "have unsavoury links with terrorism.
"In a limited number of cases, fundraising in support of violent foreign struggles takes place in Canada through the cover of ethnic, religious or community-based associations and groups, lobbying and even criminal activity," the report says.
"Front groups operating in Canada include the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services (Hamas Front), the World Tamil Movement (Tamil Tigers Front), the Canadian Kurdish Information Network (Kurdistan Workers Party Front) and the Babbar Khalsa (a Sikh extremist front)."
Hamas, also known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, is responsible for most of the suicide bombings against Israelis. Canada has outlawed Hamas under federal anti-terrorism legislation, making it illegal to support the group....
But on June 20, 1998, Mr. Islam gave the keynote address at a Jerusalem Fund fundraising dinner held in Toronto. The event was videotaped, and a copy was obtained by the SITE Institute, a U.S. terrorism research organization.
The video opens with a scene of Niagara Falls, overlayed with the Jerusalem Fund logo, which features the al-Aqsa Mosque and the maple leaf. It begins with an unidentified man explaining the activities of the Jerusalem Fund, which he describes as "helping the Muslims in Palestine" by financing hospitals, health clinics, families in need and orphans.
"Palestine is close to the heart of each and every Muslim. What the Muslims of Palestine have been doing for many years now has been that bright light shining, that hope ... that they are still believers that can raise the banner of jihad in the most difficult of circumstances."
Mr. Islam then begins a 45-minute speech in English in which he says it is "intolerable" for Muslims to "stand and watch" the situation in the Middle East. He describes Jerusalem as the centre of a land that is holy because of its connection to Allah.
"So this city which is blessed because of its religious nature. Therefore, what we see today is the result of the departure of religion from this area, of the uprooting of religion. So many of the people of the faith have been exiled from this region, moved on, to make way for what? Strangely and ironically, they moved on in the name of so-called religion, on behalf of ... the Jews.
"Of course, that would explain what is happening. Because the moment that religion and religious virtues disappear, there for sure follows trouble, tyranny, oppression," he says. "So what do we see then today? The concoction of a so-called new society based on an old society."
He says there could be "no redeemer except Allah. No political concept or construct or treaty or agent except the laws of Allah, which he instructed for this world. Jerusalem is that, the symbol of that. Out of the hands of the righteous then it falls into disrepute and blood.
"Jerusalem, al-Quds, it is a mirror reflecting the reality ... If it is dark, if it is bloody, then so too is the world. Today it reflects injustice of the secular man over the religious man. And how can the secular man be given the control and the sanctuary of the divine place of worship when he doesn't even respect what is holy? How? And how can those of faith allow that to happen? Therefore, peace will not return until we return to the Holy Land."
Posted by Robert at September 29, 2004 7:46 AM
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Cat Stevens , bad singer , even worse liar.
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at September 29, 2004 8:31 AM
Mr Spencer, I wish you wouldn't call him Cat Stevens. Cat Stevens is dead. Yusuf Islam is his unfortunate reincarnation.
I used to love his music, and still do. I loved him back in the days when he was Cat Stevens. But Cat Stevens is alas no more. Yusuf Islam is his evil replacement. I truly look forward to the day when he renounces this evil religion, and goes back to being Cat Stevens again.
Posted by: Voltaire at September 29, 2004 8:39 AM
Cat Stevens will be interviewed by Elisabeth Vargas on 20/20 this Friday. If she does not mention his public, and repeated, approval of the Fatwa against Rushdie, if she does not mention his consistent support of Hamas (just a simple act of “charity” of course) if she does not mention his crude antisemitic dismissal of Israel, then one will have to ask oneself: what was the point? A chance for one "celebrity" to be interviewed by a television “celebrity,” where Celebrity #1 (Interviewee) explains to Celebrity #2 (Interviewer) how put-upon he feels, how unfair his treatment, without the slightest attempt to offer the well-founded reasons – and there are many -- for keeping him out? And if Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens/Stephen Georgiou goes into his "racism" rant, will Elisabeth Vargas mention that a set of beliefs (she should really quote him on the unique wonderfulness of Islam, which entitles it to smother all other belief-systems) is not a "race/” Will she dare to point out that despite the alias "Cat Stevens," Mr. Georgiou (for that is his real name) looks as white as John Walker Lindh or CAIR's Hooper.
Posted by: Hugh at September 29, 2004 11:55 AM
That is like was it hitler's fault?
When you look at who were the first to aline with him? makes you wonder?
When they throw up what support of Hitler remind them of Nazism in the Arab world?
Arab support of Hitler predated his 1933 ascendancy to power, and news of his victory was welcomed with great joy in the arab world.among the first congratulatory telegrams he received were several Arab capitals Syria,anton sa’ada ,egypt’s gamal Nasser[Arafat hero]egrams he received were several Arab capitals Syria,anton sa’ada ,egypt’s gamal Nasser[Arafat hero]`
And what about the grand mufti hajj amin al-hussenini?
If the Jews were not in Israel how could he call for killing of all Jews in Israel in 1930 and the Jerusalem riots of 1929 and 1936-1939 and the riot of Hebron riot of 1929?
? Had the Nazi rewritten the Qu-ran? This could get the so called moderates out of a big mess?
Qur’an 5:44 “It was We who revealed the Torah. By its standard the prophets judged the Jews, and the prophets bowed () to Allah’s will, surrendering. For the rabbis and priests: to them was entrusted the protection of Allah’s Scripture Book; they were witnesses of it. Therefore fear not men, but fear Me, and sell not My revelations for a miserable price.”
So if it is true what the mulsums in the USA say that they believe in the same GOD that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Then they are in Big trouble !!
Yes God Trusted the Jews with his words and now men are lieing to you to tell you to KILL this has been you curse and the men you FOLLOW are YELLOW and are not of GOD!!!
even saddam knew this?
He did not kill all the Jews and Christians in Iraq?
Proof this z MONSTER does not follow GOD was it him who took out saddam who hurt the Iraqi People or was it the USA and Friends who took out the Monster saddam??
So then comes in to play 5:32 and if you kill a Jew it will be as if you kill ALL MAMKIND?
So the Leaders in Iran are leading them all to sure hell fire!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom and Courage to stay the course to Defeat the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Eyes of the World to their Threat Amen
at September 29, 2004 5:54 PM
it would be interesting to learn how a
'rock and roller' became a moslem.
i am afraid that we could live to see mass conversions of burned out secular young people to islam.
the west has rejected the bible and Jesus, and now incredibly islam may fill the spiritual void.
Posted by: forrest shalom at September 29, 2004 9:53 PM
I posted this link yesterday after reading it
in my local paper,it was like those humourous
video clips where a person denies saying something and then the actual video of them saying exactly that statement.
I almost fell for Mr.Islams little scam,but liars better have good memories befor they deny doing something that hey really did.
CAIR Canada and a few other Islamic org's do the same thing,they throw out a sound-bit at a press conference thinking people won't research it,when they're caught in the lie they scream Islamophobe or racist.
The lawyer of a local Muslim made a comment to the media that was printed in a paper and used by CAIR as a point of reference for facts,problem was the lawyer only said his client felt the Governments still monitoring him. CAIR
gave the impression he's being followed,but hey,just because he's paranoid doesn't mean they're not following him.
This time I'm glad the CAT didn't come back,as for his law suit against the USA,the Hamas fund raiser video won't go over too well in court,the Judges are a little funny that way when it comes to factual proof of a denial to a action by the accused.
at September 29, 2004 9:54 PM
He should try holding a pop concert in downtown Mecca. As he is being stoned to death he would deny that Islam restricts freedom.
This is the guy who after 9/11 denied that that event had anything to do with Islam. Now here he is supporting a terrorist movement himself.
He is a role model alright. He shows the lying content of the Islamic movement with his own persona.
Nossy
Posted by: Nostrodamus at September 30, 2004 12:05 AM
And she should remind him that translators and editors of the Satanic Verses were attacked and some killed, and she should ask whether or not he feels complicit in the assaults and murders, since he was a public figure who endorsed the fatwa.
And she should ask him if he believes in free speech. "Do I have a moral and legal right to proclaim in public, right now, unambiguously the general sentiments of the Satanic Verses? What if I did, would you have a moral duty to stop me? How would you do that?"
And whether or not, he, as a British citizen, owes loyalty to the crown or to Islam? And what if his loyalties conflict, what would he do?
And he should ask him if he repudiates the notion that Islam must eventually dominate humanity and that it is his duty to help bring that about.
"And what if I do not want to be a Muslim? What if I do not believe? What if I want to wear short skirts, drink wine, have a career in journalism, and think for myself?
Posted by: JTF at September 30, 2004 1:19 AM
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