Cat Stevens no longer considered a terrorist?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Cat Stevens Nominated for Rock Hall

It had to happen eventually. Cat Stevens — now known as Yusuf Islam — has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

My sources tell me he's a shoo-in, too.

Stevens had several huge-selling popular records in the 1970s, until he became a Muslim and changed his name. Those hits were "Moon Shadow," "Peace Train," "Oh Very Young," a cover version of Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night," "Father and Son" and "Wild World."

A decade or more ago, Stevens was roundly denounced for seeming to back the fatwa, or death sentence, placed by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini on the head of writer Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses."

Last year he was refused entry into the United States on suspicion — ridiculous as it was — that he was a terrorist of some sort.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169338,00.html

[msongs]

1. here's what I think of cat stevens/yusuf islam situation......

as a rock star he went off the deep end and lost himself. then he found islam while struggling to save himself. like many converts, he then went overboard the other way, renouncing all of his past including his music.

the problem was not his music, it was HIM. after a decade or so he realized that his music was god's gift to HIM that stevens/islam was allowed to share with the world.

now he is more comfortable and can recognize the good in what he did.

unfortunately his extremist phase had some consequences perhaps he would change if he could.


just an opinion. recently saw him on PBS, an old video of his last tour before he got religion. the show was pretty good.

Msongs
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[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I always liked his music

but I think he is kinda strange.

[nine23]

3. I remember the Salman Rushdie/Cat Stevens debacle very clearly.

Cat Stevens didn't actually SUPPORT the fatwa, he just didn't come out and loudly DENOUNCE it, thus giving the impression he "backed" it. He was probably scared shitless of the mullahs & crackpots in London himself...

[Berry Cool]

4. But not all of Cat's troubles are over yet.

Word has it that he's still being followed by a moonshadow.