In 1989, Yusuf Islam enthusiastically endorsed the Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa against Salman Rushdie for insulting Islam: “Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie,” by Craig R. Whitney in the New York Times, May 23, 1989:
TONDON [sic], 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.”…
And in 2010, there were posted on YouTube two “Classic Yusuf Islam Nasheeds without Music.” A nasheed is a song praising Allah or Islam in some way. Nasheeds are usually sung a cappella or with percussion accompaniment only, and according to most Islamic authorities they’re the only kind of music allowed under Islamic law. At minute 2:02 of the first nasheed (video below), Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, sings:
What are you saying?
What are you saying?
I’m praying to Allah
To give us victory
Over the kuffar.
“I’m praying to Allah to give us victory over the kuffar” (unbelievers)? When have you ever heard a Jew or a Christian praying for victory over the unbelievers? The supremacism and hatred is open and unapologetic, and especially piquant coming the former Mr. Peace Train himself, who has for years cultivated an image as a benign, peaceful, cuddly, peace-and-love-hippie Muslim.
“Questions remain over Cat Stevens’ connections to radical Muslims,” by Andrea Peyser, New York Post, December 11, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):
…Now 66, Yusuf/Stevens, who lives in London and Dubai, has demonstrated that he believes in radicalism and, allegedly, has given financial support to terrorists. But after listening to him speak on American TV this past weekend, you might think he was a victim of — what else? — the media.
“Yeah, I reckon the media has played kind of a nonpositive role in creating my image,” he said in a coming-out-again interview on “CBS Sunday Morning.’’
Before the married father of five’s foray into concert halls on his tour called “Peace Train . . . Late Again,’’ Yusuf/Stevens canceled a show scheduled to be staged last week at New York City’s Beacon Theatre, he said, to protest “extortionate’’ fees charged for tickets by scalpers. He promised to return to the city in the future. Yet I wonder how he would be received in a town brutalized by radical Islamic terrorists who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
He was born Steven Georgiou to a Greek-Cypriot father and a Swedish mother in 1948. When he was known as Cat Stevens, he nearly drowned, he has claimed, while swimming in the surf off Malibu, Calif., in 1976. He said he shouted, “Oh, God! If you save me I will work for you,’’ then was carried ashore by a wave. His brother gave him a copy of the Koran. In 1977, he became a Muslim.
But he provoked outrage when, appearing on a British TV show in 1989, he seemed to support the Iranian fatwa calling for the death of British author Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses’’ is considered blasphemous by some Muslims.
Asked if he’d attend a demonstration in which Rushdie was burned in effigy, he said, “I would have hoped that it’d be the real thing.’’
In 2000, Islam was booted from Israel after, officials said, the philanthropist delivered tens of thousands of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas during a visit in 1988. Then in 2004, his flight from London to Washington, DC, was diverted to Bangor, Maine, where he was questioned by US officials, then shipped back to England after it was determined he was on the government’s “no fly’’ terrorist watch list.
A US government official said Islam was believed to have made donations that wound up supporting not only Hamas but Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian sheik convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting to bomb New York City landmarks. (Islam said he never “knowingly’’ funded terrorists.)
Two years later, he was allowed to fly into the United States to conduct radio interviews for a new album. Earlier this year at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed three songs….
sheik yer'mami says
“the philanthropist delivered tens of thousands of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas”
If that’s not terror finance I don’t know what is.
mortimer says
Jihad is not a ‘peace train’. Jihad is war against the disbelievers.
mortimer says
Musical instruments are HARAM!
Bamaguje says
Killing instruments are halal.
pumbar says
islam left a number of trains in pieces on 7/7 and also later in Madrid.
Shane says
I enjoyed his music in my youth, but I will not listen to it now. He has betrayed his religion and culture by becoming a jihad-supporting Muslim. He is no man of peace now, as he is a devout member of the Religion of War.
Shane says
Stevens is on the Jihad train now and encouraging other Muslims to hop on it too!
Jack Diamond says
All you need to know about Yusuf Islam, today, is to note his close association with the Muslim Brotherhood luminaries and groups tied to Hamas. He attends international conferences in Qatar for Tariq Ramadan’s Shari’a research center, CILE, sharing the stage with Qaradawi. His is a trustee of the Union of Good, a group of charities headed by Qaradawi which is known to help fund Hamas. Yusuf is founder of Muslim Aid, a UK charity which is part of the Union of Good and the UK Muslim Brotherhood. He is chairman of IBEER, an international education association choked full of Muslim Brotherhood trustees. If he is performing again, it is da’wa not backsliding.
http://www.albawaba.com/business/pr/cile-conference-475953
http://swissdefenceleague.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/tariq-ramadan-center-to-hold-international-conference-many-global-muslim-brotherhood-luminaries-to-attend/
MatchMarker says
He also started the sicko segregated Islamia School in London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamia_Primary_School
You know what they’re teaching in there.
Zebo says
Wonder what the muslims would have done to him is his name was Pig Stevens.
But yeah,it is a wild world,
in most cases thx to your religion
Ernie says
Dear Zebo : ” But yeah , it is a wild world …… . Good one !
mortimer says
By playing guitar and singing (because he’s broke and records don’t make money nowadays), the Artist No Longer Known as ‘Islam’ is IGNORING AND THWARTING SHARIA LAW!
Cat No Longer ‘Islam’ is an INNOVATOR and DEVIATIONIST. If he does not repent, the vigilante jihadists have permission under Sharia to hunt him like a deer!
How do you feel now about HERESY, Mr. Not Islam?
Do you want for yourself what you want for Rushdie? Or are you a ‘hypocrite’?
mortimer says
And you can bet the ‘Artist formerly Known as Islam’ knows that too.
And if he isn’t a ‘hypocrite’, why is he dropping the name ‘ISLAM’?
zebo says
cat stevens was always known as a very accurate person,
therefore he changed his name from islam to islamism the day he found out the truth about islam,
therfore formerly known Yusuf Islam
is now You’suffer Islamism.
somehistory says
islam does not allow this…which I really liked. (Too bad he was infected by a bite from the beast)
Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the Word
Sweet the rains new fall, sunlit from Heaven
Like the first dewfall on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where His feet pass
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God’s recreation of the new day
Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the Word
Cat Stevens – Morning Has Broken Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Mirren10 says
Stevens didn’t write the words.
They were written by Eleanor Farjeon, an English poet and children’s writer, in about 1931. I don’ t know about the tune.
somehistory says
Of that, I am aware. The website from which I copied the words…rather than type them out myself…also had his name. To give *credit* to the site is why I put his name on my post.
The reason I put the words is due to the fact that the song is so very nice and he is the one I heard sing it when it came out in the ’70s. I still like the words and they still mean what they did when he sang them as when she wrote them. 🙂
Mirren10 says
” I still like the words and they still mean what they did when he sang them as when she wrote them”
Yes, of course, I wasn’t at all trying to imply anyone should reject Elenor Farjeon’s poem just because that di*k head chose to put it to music.
I just thought *you* thought Stevens wrote it. Sorry ! 🙂
somehistory says
Mirren10 ,
I understand. No need to apologize. I just wanted to express my feelings, I guess, about the thought behind the words.:) And there might be others, seeing what I posted, who would think he did write it. I should have been clearer.
albert says
When he was a Christian he sang those lovely words written by a poet.
He converts to Islam and in his own words wants to burn to death Salman Rushdie that in itself tells a story.
cassandra says
I used to sing that at morning assembly in junior school, it was considered a religious song – a Christian hymn…
pumbar says
Singing hymns at assembly? Shocking! Report to the headmaster at once.
Judi says
Mirren – you are correct. I learnt that song At school many years before he plagiarised it.
somehistory says
Merely singing a song that someone else wrote is not *plagiarism*. Singing a song someone else wrote may pay royalties to the writer, but hundreds of singers sing songs, or poems made into songs, that they themselves did not write.
If Cat Stevens had not sang these words, many would never have heard them or come to appreciate them. I am sorry anyone falls victim to islam, but he sang them before his fall. Because he knew the words is all the more incomprehensible that he turned to the beast to *do its work.*
mortimer says
The poem you quote is about the Second Person of the Holy Trinity and how nature itself praises Him.
Blasphemy to a Muslim.
somehistory says
Both the Psalms and the ancient Prophets, such as Job and Isaiah, tell us that creation sings God’s praises. The *poem* is another person’s expression of that truth. And I appreciate it.
eib says
And the former Stevens must never be allowed to forget this. He is a bitter disgrace to both his Cypriot and Swedish heritage. Jesus Christ, the Anointed, Son of God. Never forget the truth, lest you run the same path as Mr. Islam, the oikophobe.
Huck Folder says
oinkophobe?
pumbar says
Fear of oinks (ie. pigs)?
eib says
No. I meant oikophobe. That is an irrational fear of one’s native culture.
Twostellas says
Now, wouldn’t it be something if karma bit him in the ass, and the ideology he sold his soul to, promoted violence and oppression for, covered for, etc came around and the Islamists deemed him apostate and kuffar! Along with his whole family. I guess he’d get a taste of the beast he helped support that so many families have been terrorized with and murdered for. While he sat comfy and assured in his superiority! Advancng violence for ‘blasphemy’* (*other Muslims tellng the truth!) If he is no longer useful or needed for Sharia advancement his ‘brothers and sisters’ would turn against him and take him out in an instance (he must know this after so many years in the muslim community). What a sorry excuse for a human being he is!
Keith Jordan says
Yes, I think that, sooner or later, he will be tortured to death, for playing music, which is not allowed by Islam.
Angemon says
Typical islamic mindset: it’s always someone else’s fault.
Too bad we don’t know his definition of “terrorists”.
mortimer says
And we should believe Yusuf non-Islam because he wants to deceive us and kill kafirs because they think Mohammed is a false prophet.
Such twisted logic to cover his deceits.
KrazyKafir says
Tossed every CD and cassette I had of this mentally ill simpleton a long time ago.
emily says
He should be banned from America, and Canada and his music banned from all of our radio stations. He probably ran out of money supporting all the terrorist organizations. BOYCOTT! CALL YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS!
theoffaltruth says
I was recently sickened by the fact that he was allowed to enter Canada and perform in Toronto. To allow him to play here is nothing else but a desecrated glorification of his subversive ideology, that feeds into his following’s lack of judgement. Besides the ridiculous naive sheep who support him musically, his allowed presence is a twisted endorsement of his radicalism to his fellow jihadist-minded terrorists, as much as it is to those who line up to hear the soulless Peace Train propaganda he zealously preaches; more like spews. The subliminal indoctrination he hopes to proffer, and in many cases succeeds at to varying political and radically religious degrees – wherever he is allowed to infiltrate – is in sharp contrast to what the ovine-minded among us ignorantly believe or flagrantly refuse to care about, to everyone’s peril. When will they bloody learn?
Mustafa bin el San says
Pee Strain
Joginder Singh says
cat stevens is a muslim like all muslims jihad and muslims goes together like politicians and dishonesty
donna says
His music sucks anyway. He’s a has been. His music sucked even in the old days. Keep him and his bs out of America.
oslamisdeath says
Always hated his namby pamby music. Flaming a$$hole!
Champ says
Well, Cat is singing a new tune now …
“Taqiyya Train”
Now I’ve been brainwashed lately, thinking about the evil things to come
And I believe it could be, something evil has begun
Oh I’ve been brainwashed lately, dreaming about the world under islam
And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come (wrong!)
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a taqiyya train
Oh taqiyya train take this world, come take us to hell again.
Now I’ve been brainwashed lately, thinking about the evil things to come
And I believe it could be, something evil has begun
Oh taqiyya train sounding louder
Glide on the taqiyya train
Come on now taqiyya train
Yes, taqiyya train evil roller
Everyone jump upon the taqiyya train
Come on now taqiyya train
Get your bags together, deceive your good friends too
Cause it’s getting nearer, it soon will be with you
Now come and join the death cult, it’s not so far from you
And it’s getting nearer, soon it will all be true (wrong!)
Oh taqiyya train sounding louder
Glide on the taqiyya train
Come on now taqiyya train
Now I’ve been brainwashed lately, thinking about the world under islam
Why must we go on living, why can’t we all die for allah.
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a taqiyya train
Oh taqiyya train take this world, come take us to hell again.
Oh taqiyya train sounding louder
Glide on the taqiyya train
Come on now taqiyya train
Yes, taqiyya train evil roller
Everyone jump upon the taqiyya train
Come on taqiyya train
Yes, it’s the taqiyya train
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No thank you Cat!! ..bleh!
Mirren10 says
Brill, Champ. Well done ! 🙂
mortimer says
I laughed and laughed. Too funny.
Smelly, hot, steaming, trainloads of taqiyya.
And, Mr. non-Islam, you’re not a ‘hypocrite’ by using forbidden musical instruments.
Champ says
Thanks, Mirren10! 😉
jay says
lmao 10/10
Buraq says
The greatest pity of all is that Islam suppressed a unique musical talent for decades, not to mention twisting Cat Stevens into a hater of anyone who does not submit to its pernicious belief system.
Clowns are sad people, and this clown is one of the saddest of the lot.
Salah says
A benign, peaceful, cuddly, peace-and-love-hippie embraces Islam.
An evil, aggressive, disgusting, war-and-hate-salafi leaves Islam!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Harqan
mortimer says
Islam creates monsters that are without compassion.
voegelinian says
From 2009:
“Paul McCartney and Dolly Parton guest on new Yusuf album ”
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/22/paul-mccartney-dolly-parton-yusuf
ECAW says
some revealing answers here:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/15/yusuf-islam-interview
such as:
What is your greatest fear?
The Hellfire.
and
What is the worst job you’ve done?
Explaining my position on the Satanic Verses issue.
and some pointed comments.
Huck Folder says
“What is your greatest fear?
The Hellfire missile with my name on it.”
St. Croix says
Oh very young
What will you leave us this time?
You’re only dancing on this earth for a short while
* (Yes a very short time. Now do what you are supposed to do: fight and die–killing infidels in the name of Allah.)
Oh very young
What will you leave us this time?
There’ll never be a better chance to change your mind
And if you want this world to see a better day
Will you carry the words of love with you?
Will you ride the great white bird into heaven?
(*Whoops! I’ve changed things around oh very young! Whatever you do, don’t carry those words of love with you! There is a better way to see ‘a better day.’ Carry the words of hate with you! And you will see heaven where your rewards await).
Champ says
Here Cat Stevens is pictured alongside Rick Warren spreading evil Chrislam …
http://www.exposingchrislam.com/
This is a must read!
Paul says
Has anybody ever asked him why he converted to Islam and submitted to the Islamic god after having
apparently been saved from drowning by the Christian one? Surely, he received the answer to
his supposed spiritual search there and then – that’s if the story about drowning is factual. I believe in God,
but it’s clear that this guy is somewhat economical with the truth, hence my scepticism.
His decision to convert appealed to something horrible within him. Easy as that.
Arthur says
Indeed, I was struck by the same part of the story!
>>He said he shouted, “Oh, God! If you save me I will work for you,’’ then was carried ashore by a wave.
When does he plan to get started? When will he realize that Allah is not God and he’s been working for the wrong side? At 66 years old he’s running out of time!
Paul says
It’s even worse than that. ‘Allah’ is just a repackaged version of the false god
Baal who is mentioned in the Bible. The Bible strictly forbids sun, moon and star
worship (Islamic prayer times are based on this) and in Zephaniah 1 it says that
people who go up to their rooftops and bow down to them whilst trying to claim
allegiance to the true God will be swept away. There are so many more examples.
Does he realise just how wrong he is?! He turned his ‘miracle’ (if it happened) into
something it wasn’t.
Jack says
The only questions are in the minds of the media, groupies, and the far left who will somehow try to justify what he is doing because he doesn’t understand. If the intel is correct, Israeli, US and UK, than it is like the Family, he is never leaving’ unless he wants to be dead! There is no sign that he has repudiated Islam. Besides who knows what scam might be taking place with his travels back and forth.
Ayattollahowmany says
Sad that the millions of unenlightened useful idiots for Islam will pay this piece of excrement handsomely to go to his concerts. WHY has the no-fly rule been dropped?
Of course, MONEY TALKS…
Ann Inquirer says
Is that song threatening or what! “You can be found;” “He knows who the good muslims are,” This is murana, heighted taqiyya,
jay says
A long time ago I saw him on Oprah? Or something similar where he was decrying how he’d been blacklisted because of, what else, Islamphobia. He made the usual emotional plea to the horrible racists to not misunderstand him and he went on to tell about how peaceful and holy his life has been since Islam. Right. Because just like many Christian ‘born agains’ who get a little too fanatical and gung ho, that in Islam never ever happens or turns out 20x worse since a born again/convert Muslim is more likely to want death and bombs than just to be really annoying and pushy about Jesus and abortion.
Jay Barney says
Art Garfunkel spoke at Mr. Islam’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He described him as a better songwriter than Paul Simon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rC_Km0J5Bk
Caliph Bob says
Mr. Yusuf supported a book “Al-Wala wa’l-Bara” (Love for the Believers and Hatred/Enmity for the Disbelievers) This book is one of the most hateful books ever translated into English and he is one of its “moral and financial” supporters. Proof is here here: https://www.kalamullah.com/Books/alWalaawalBaraa1.pdf (scroll down to page 5) I am sure every single English speaking jihadi has read and agrees with the contents of this book. It basically justifies why non-Muslims are inferior and should be hated and avoided at all costs. You’re on the hate train Cat.
givemeabreakintheleg says
screw cat stevens.
talentless hack.