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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - i didn't know cat stevens was so extreme.

Posted: 11/2/2006 8:49:36 PM EDT

this happened back w/ the rushdie incident.

The moderator asked if, in my role as a commissioning editor of Channel 4 UK, I would contemplate turning The Satanic Verses into a film. I said that I would judge the cinematic merits of the script, and that no other consideration would rule it out. Kalim Siddiqui and Yusuf Islam (AKA-Cat Stevens) snarled, warning that the sentence of death on Rushdie would extend to all those who forwarded his book in any way.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_4_our_islamic.html

Posted: 11/2/2006 8:55:08 PM EDT

[#1]

Dude welcome to 1989. This is what happens when people embrace Islam. They hate Jews, The become fashists and only amount to maybe an extremely small part of the Islamic world, like 40%. thats all.

Posted: 11/2/2006 8:56:49 PM EDT

[#2]

"Oooh baby baby it's a wild world".

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:03:33 PM EDT

[#3]

It is a shame, he made some great music.

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:09:13 PM EDT

[#4]

Some of the best music ever made.

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:10:34 PM EDT

[#5]

Strange things happen to you when you nearly drown and pray to allah to save you.

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:15:16 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Some of the best music ever made.

Have you heard any of the recent stuff he has done, the same songs but he butchers them beyond anything even close to the original versions. Kind of a cross between a hippy drum circle and a WAY too into it religious chior. Minus any rythym and melody.

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:18:29 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Dude welcome to 1989.

No doubt, where you been? You're going to shit when you find out Elvis died a fat drug-addict with a bad Vegas act.

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:21:38 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Dude welcome to 1989.

No doubt, where you been? You're going to shit when you find out Elvis died a fat drug-addict with a bad Vegas act.

thats what Elvis was doing when he realized it himself

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:22:04 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
You're going to shit when you find out Elvis died a fat drug-addict with a bad Vegas act.

The hell he did. Elvis is alive and well, drinking wine and banging chicks in Paris with Jim Morrison.

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:22:31 PM EDT

[#10]

He was on the TSA "No-Fly" list a year or two ago.

Cat Stevens Held After D.C. Flight Diverted

By Sara Kehaulani Goo
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 22, 2004; Page A10

U.S. security officials yesterday diverted a Washington-bound United Airlines flight and detained Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the pop singer Cat Stevens, after discovering that he had been allowed to board the plane in London even though he was on the government's no-fly list.

Islam was questioned in Bangor, Maine, by Customs and Border Protection agents. Dennis Murphy, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Islam is scheduled to be deported today on a flight to Europe. "He is being detained on national security grounds," Murphy said. He declined to elaborate.

Islam was denied entry into Israel several years ago out of concerns that his charitable contributions had funded militant groups. He denied knowingly contributing to any such groups.

Homeland Security officials worked with the Federal Aviation Administration yesterday afternoon to order the United flight to land in Bangor, the closest major airport on the East Coast, after learning that Islam was on board the Boeing 747. Islam, whose name is listed as "Usef Islam," is on several government watch lists, including the no-fly list, according to sources familiar with the event.

While the flight was over the Atlantic, Customs and Border Protection agents were routinely comparing the passenger manifest against the watch lists and realized that Islam was on board, these sources said. Airline agents conduct similar checks before flights depart; it was not clear yesterday why Islam was not flagged before he boarded.

Transportation Security Administration spokesman Mark Hatfield said his agency made the decision to divert the flight. "We did not want that aircraft to enter the Northeast corridor airspace," which would have taken it over New York and into Washington, Hatfield said. "We got information that led us to make a decision, based on the fact there was a confirmed individual on board."

United Airlines declined to comment on the incident yesterday but said that its Flight 919 eventually continued to Dulles International Airport yesterday evening.

Islam recorded 12 albums before abandoning his singing career in the late 1980s after he converted to Islam. He drew criticism in the late 1980s after he publicly supported Ayatollah Khomeini's death edict against author Salman Rushdie. After the terrorist attacks in 2001, Islam said he would donate profits from his CD box set to families of the victims of the attacks

Posted: 11/2/2006 9:54:22 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
He was on the TSA "No-Fly" list a year or two ago.

Cat Stevens Held After D.C. Flight Diverted

By Sara Kehaulani Goo
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 22, 2004; Page A10

U.S. security officials yesterday diverted a Washington-bound United Airlines flight and detained Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the pop singer Cat Stevens, after discovering that he had been allowed to board the plane in London even though he was on the government's no-fly list.

Islam was questioned in Bangor, Maine, by Customs and Border Protection agents. Dennis Murphy, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Islam is scheduled to be deported today on a flight to Europe. "He is being detained on national security grounds," Murphy said. He declined to elaborate.

Islam was denied entry into Israel several years ago out of concerns that his charitable contributions had funded militant groups. He denied knowingly contributing to any such groups.

Homeland Security officials worked with the Federal Aviation Administration yesterday afternoon to order the United flight to land in Bangor, the closest major airport on the East Coast, after learning that Islam was on board the Boeing 747. Islam, whose name is listed as "Usef Islam," is on several government watch lists, including the no-fly list, according to sources familiar with the event.

While the flight was over the Atlantic, Customs and Border Protection agents were routinely comparing the passenger manifest against the watch lists and realized that Islam was on board, these sources said. Airline agents conduct similar checks before flights depart; it was not clear yesterday why Islam was not flagged before he boarded.

Transportation Security Administration spokesman Mark Hatfield said his agency made the decision to divert the flight. "We did not want that aircraft to enter the Northeast corridor airspace," which would have taken it over New York and into Washington, Hatfield said. "We got information that led us to make a decision, based on the fact there was a confirmed individual on board."

United Airlines declined to comment on the incident yesterday but said that its Flight 919 eventually continued to Dulles International Airport yesterday evening.

Islam recorded 12 albums before abandoning his singing career in the late 1980s after he converted to Islam. He drew criticism in the late 1980s after he publicly supported Ayatollah Khomeini's death edict against author Salman Rushdie. After the terrorist attacks in 2001, Islam said he would donate profits from his CD box set to families of the victims of the attacks

i remember he was a 'confirmed individual.'

so, what's up w/ elvis??

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