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 […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Three Converts, Three Religions: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, and Cat Stevens
The conversions, once again, proved secular Leftist dogma about religion to be false. My latest in PJ Media: The imminent release of “Trouble No More” — the latest installment of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series; this one covers his controversial 1979-81 “Christian period” — recalls the long-gone age of high-profile rock star conversions. Dylan became a […]
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 […]