New in PJ Media: Here’s some good news for aging hippies. It’s time to replenish your stocks of patchouli oil and weed; you’ll want to be celebrating, because Cat Stevens has a new album coming out this summer! According to an Associated Press report Wednesday, “the ‘Peace Train’ hitmaker worked for years on the 12 new songs, […]
Salman Rushdie: ‘I’m afraid Cat Stevens got off the peace train a long time ago’
Yes, but no one cares. Jihadis and their enablers and sympathizers aren’t vilified, marginalized, derided and shunned today; they’re celebrated. Only foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression get that treatment. As recently as 2010, there was published on YouTube a nasheed in which the author of “Peace Train” sang: “I’m praying to Allah to give us victory […]
A Wild World Indeed: Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens Tells How He Converted to Islam and Became a Victim
My latest in PJ Media: Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens is a darling of the Western media these days, because he converted to the elites’ favored religion. Critics generally treat Bob Dylan’s “Christian period” as an embarrassing anomaly in his otherwise stellar career, while Yusuf Islam gets a fawning feature in Yahoo Music Sunday to explain his […]
Questions remain over Cat Stevens’ connections to jihad terror
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 […]