Cat Stevens, on Watch List, Diverts Plane

To: paul in cape

Heh. That guy goes from looking like Jesus to looking like Mohammed. It's crazy what people do with plastic surgery these days...

21 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:05 PM PDT by zide56

To: Revolting cat!

He was seen at the home of The Captain and Tennille.

22 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:11 PM PDT by speedy

To: blogblogginaway

I'd drop this POS like a 50-lb sack of shit, on a 20-mile hike.

Moonshadow, my ~~ass~~, subhuman dirtbag Muslim filthie.

23 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:14 PM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (nn, but it work)

Guess that's because they're all out of love.

24 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:37 PM PDT by speedy

To: formercalifornian

I think Usef Islam is his new name. A convert to the religion of pieces AKA the Death Cult. He WAS one heck of a songwriter.

25 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:46 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Pajama futures are lookin' pretty good)

Well, I think once he implied that Salman Rushdie deserved to get whacked. Plus a lot of anti-American comments.

Does that qualify?

26 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:53 PM PDT by True_wesT

To: blogblogginaway

Cat Stevens Deported From Israel
The Associated Press
July 13th, 2000

JERUSALEM (AP) - The man who gained fame as pop star Cat Stevens (Bio) was denied entry into Israel and deported hours after arriving, officials said Thursday - reportedly because he gave money to a militant Islamic group during his last visit.

Defense Ministry officials refused to comment on Yusuf Islam (Bio)'s case other than to say that the Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, had ordered the man who wrote such songs as ``Peace Train (Song)'' and ``Wild World (Song)'' barred from the country.

Islam, 51, who changed his name after becoming a Muslim in the late 1970s, last visited Israel in 1988. The government claims that during that trip he delivered tens of thousand of dollars to Hamas, a militant Islamic group, the Maariv daily reported.

Two years later, in 1990, he tried to enter again along with his 8-year-old son but was barred.

This time, the former singer arrived at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday and was detained by airport authorities when his name appeared on a list of people banned from Israel, Maariv reported. It quoted him as telling an Israeli entertainment show, ``They locked me in a two-meter by two-meter cell without water or a bathroom, and then deported me. I don't see any reason for this to happen in a time of peace.''

Airport authorities denied that the former singer was mistreated, Maariv said. They said he was kept in the departure lounge until the plane he arrived on returned to Germany.

The former singer, who was born Stephen Georgiou, took Cat Stevens as a stage name and had a string of hits in the early 1970s. He abandoned his music career in 1977 and changed his name after being persuaded by orthodox Muslim teachers that his lifestyle was forbidden by Islamic law.

He later began teaching and actively spreading the word of his religion, founding a Muslim school in 1983. He made headlines when he supported the death sentence issued by Iran against author Salman Rushdie.

AP-NY-07-13-00 1111EDT

27 posted on 09/21/2004 7:14:04 PM PDT by dennisw (Gd is against Amelek for all generations.)

I'd like to know that one too. Have to admit other than his conversion, and his opposition to the war I don't think I have heard of him doing anything dangerous. If he has please advise.

28 posted on 09/21/2004 7:14:22 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Lead...follow...or get the HELL out of the way!)

To: paul in cape

Subhuman, lowlife dirtbag, degenerate filth.

29 posted on 09/21/2004 7:14:25 PM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (nn, but it work)

But Neil Diamond is, he said, (to no one there.)

30 posted on 09/21/2004 7:14:56 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")

To: blogblogginaway

Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) has called for the death (murder) of anti-Islamic author Salman Rushdie.

He's not ridin' the "peace train" anymore...

31 posted on 09/21/2004 7:15:04 PM PDT by sargon (How could anyone vote for the socialist, weak-on-defense fraud named John Kerry?)

To: blogblogginaway

She could move mountains in the night, as silent as a knife.

She cut loose, a life, she never, she never really wanted.

32 posted on 09/21/2004 7:15:18 PM PDT by kcar (theUNsucks.com)

To: dennisw; Admin Moderator

This is a duplicate. Funnier thread here.

I hope this one just gets locked, not deleted.

33 posted on 09/21/2004 7:15:50 PM PDT by Petronski (What did Terri McAuliffe know and when did she know it?)

To: Revolting cat!

But no one heard at all, not even the chair.

34 posted on 09/21/2004 7:16:07 PM PDT by speedy

And if I ever lose my mouth
All my teeth
North and South.....

35 posted on 09/21/2004 7:16:45 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)

As I understand it, he's a supporter of Hamas.

36 posted on 09/21/2004 7:17:22 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)

To: blogblogginaway

Singer Yusuf Islam, former Cat Stevens, prizewinner of the World Social Award 2003, speaks during the World Awards gala 2003 in Hamburg's music hall, northern Germany, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003. A plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine on Tuesday Sept. 21, 2004 after passenger Yusuf Islam showed up on a U.S. watch list, a federal official said. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)
AP - 27 minutes ago
Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens addresses those gathered at a session on education at the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, Saturday, August 30, 2003, in Chicago. A plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to Maine on Tuesday Sept. 21, 2004 after passenger Yusuf Islam showed up on a U.S. watch list, a federal official said. (AP Photo/Stephen J. Carrera)
AP - 29 minutes ago

37 posted on 09/21/2004 7:17:29 PM PDT by dennisw (Gd is against Amelek for all generations.)

And Michael Bolton is said to have bolted!

38 posted on 09/21/2004 7:17:43 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")

To: formercalifornian

Everybody ride on the peace plane....

HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Too funny, I thank the Good Lord I'm a Conservative!

39 posted on 09/21/2004 7:17:56 PM PDT by wrathof59 (semper ubi sub ubi)

To: Nasty McPhilthy

And if I ever lose my legs, I won't plead, and I won't beg (and I won't get off the plane, either)

40 posted on 09/21/2004 7:17:56 PM PDT by speedy

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