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- Cat Stevens Is A Moderate Nazi ... Er, I Mean Muslim Extremist ... I Mean, Muslim
Or whatever. From Jihad Watch: Today on Ummah.com, a poster called "ahaneefah" posted 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...
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Jon Stewart unapologetic for being a useful idiot, inviting Yusuf "Kill Rushdie" Islam to "sanity" rally From Jihadwatch: And he still thinks he is on the side of the enlightened. An update on this story. "Jon Stewart Doesn't Regret Inviting...
- Bono Sucks Up To Yusuf Islam (cat Stevens), The Man Who Advocated Killing Bono's Friend Salman Rushdie
Here's what Yusuf Islam said about Salman Rushdie: New York Times story from May 23, 1989: "Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie," by Craig R. Whitney (thanks to all who sent this in): LONDON, May 22 -- The musician known as Cat...
- Stephen Colbert Reenacts Nuclear Holocaust For Georgetown Professor
Stephen Colbert is a genius. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cBetter Know a Lobby - Ploughshares Fundwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorU.S. Speedskating Master of Science in Foreign Service Professor Joseph Cirincione...
- If Only This Man Would Listen To His Own Lyrics
Cat Stevens used to be a great singer-songwriter. His music was beautiful and his vocal style was unparalleled. Then, he became a Muslim and changed his name to Yusuf Islam. He has since called for the death of Salman Rushdie for having the "audacity"...
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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Are They Pro-Islamofascist or Just Stupid?
From Roger Simon:
Much of the blogosphere is appalled, as well it should be, at the selection of Yusuf Islam — né Cat Stevens — to perform at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s now absurdly named “Rally to Restore Sanity.” As the world well knows, Islam/Stevens is the man who endorsed the fatwa on Salman Rushdie and on more than one occasion said he wished he could carry it out and murder Rushdie himself.
And if that isn’t enough — and it should be — Islam is a misogynist who won’t talk to women. (Take another listen to the paternalistic “Wild World” if you want to hear the psychological roots of his profound “religious” belief.)
So what’s up with Stewart and Colbert? Why would they have a man like that singing at their event? Is this PC cultural relativism gone berserk? (“Hey, dude, it’s cool. Yusuf’s into the fatwa thing, you dig? He loves Khomeini just like Foucault did. All cultures are equal, you know. Who are we to judge?”) If that’s so, why not invite Khalid Sheik Mohammed to perform? He actually took the head off Daniel Pearl. He didn’t just talk the talk. He walked the walk.
But I think there’s another explanation for Islam’s appearance and it’s much simpler: Stewart and Colbert are dumb and uniniformed. Although they pretend to be more, they are just mildly talented entertainers with the depth of a petri dish who rely on their writers to stoke them with material and ideas. And no one told them Cat Stevens supported killing a fellow artist merely for exercising free expression. And unlike many of you, they simply didn’t know themselves. They thought he was, you know, just a peaceful ex-hippie dude who went Islamic spiritual instead of zen. (Okay, that irritated some people, but so what? It would be nice to see them squirm.)
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- Cat Stevens Is A Moderate Nazi ... Er, I Mean Muslim Extremist ... I Mean, Muslim
Or whatever. From Jihad Watch: Today on Ummah.com, a poster called "ahaneefah" posted 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...
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Jon Stewart unapologetic for being a useful idiot, inviting Yusuf "Kill Rushdie" Islam to "sanity" rally From Jihadwatch: And he still thinks he is on the side of the enlightened. An update on this story. "Jon Stewart Doesn't Regret Inviting...
- Bono Sucks Up To Yusuf Islam (cat Stevens), The Man Who Advocated Killing Bono's Friend Salman Rushdie
Here's what Yusuf Islam said about Salman Rushdie: New York Times story from May 23, 1989: "Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie," by Craig R. Whitney (thanks to all who sent this in): LONDON, May 22 -- The musician known as Cat...
- Stephen Colbert Reenacts Nuclear Holocaust For Georgetown Professor
Stephen Colbert is a genius. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cBetter Know a Lobby - Ploughshares Fundwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorU.S. Speedskating Master of Science in Foreign Service Professor Joseph Cirincione...
- If Only This Man Would Listen To His Own Lyrics
Cat Stevens used to be a great singer-songwriter. His music was beautiful and his vocal style was unparalleled. Then, he became a Muslim and changed his name to Yusuf Islam. He has since called for the death of Salman Rushdie for having the "audacity"...