The National Post has an interesting update on the Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam controversy. As you will recall, the onetime troubadour was recently sent home en route to the USA for possible terror connections, which he denies.
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.”
From now on I’ll refer to Cat as a “so-called human.”… More here.
I was glad to read that article; I have been fuming about the Cat Stevens thing since it happened a couple weeks ago, and hadn’t yet run across any sane commentary about it. He could sure dish it out back in the Rushdie days, but apparently can’t take it now. It doesn’t seem to enter his Western-raised mind that supporting death for a novelist (ever hear of artistic freedom, Cat? ever believe in it???) would brand him a total nutball (at the very least) in the eyes of the West, and might get him on a few lists. But no, he’s a “victim”—–awwww!
And I didn’t even know about his contributions to the Hamas-front organization; that’s absolutely appalling.
suellen
“The First Cut is the Deepest” especially when it is inflicted on the society the gave you everything or as the anagramists have it “Stitches feet deep – it hurts”. (by Stanley Accrington
Between supporting Hamas and “Moonshadow” that man’s burnoose’d ass should never darken our borders again…
On more Islamic anti-Semitism, this report from Memri has to be seen to be believed:
“”The solution is clear, not only to me but to everyone. If only [the Muslims] declared Jihad, we would see who stays home. We have a few countriesÖ There is one country with a population of over 60-70 million people. If we let them only march, with no weapons even, they would completely trample the Jews, they would turn them into rotten carcasses under their feet. There is another country that donated money, saying, ‘I am behind you, I’ll support you with weapons, just wage [ Jihad ].’”
There’s also this report from Jordan from Winds of Change.net.