?!? My word I love his early music.
Posted on 03/08/2003 2:51:44 AM PST by paulsy
LONDON - Yusuf Islam, formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens (news), has recorded two songs to express his opposition to a U.S.-led war on Iraq.
?!? My word I love his early music.
Israel Rejects the Former Cat Stevens
The former Cat Stevens detained and deported from Israeli airport
While Middle East peace talks were underway in the U.S., a Jerusalem airport detained and deported Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, alleging that he donated money to a militant Islamic sect on a previous visit.
aborted attempt to gain access to Israel. In 1990, he and his son were barred from the country. The Israeli government claims that on a 1988 visit to Jerusalem, Islam donated tens of thousands of dollars to a violent Islamic group known as the Hamas.
The Wednesday visit was Islam's second
Islam arrived at the airport at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday. When his name was found on a list of people banned from Israel, he was detained by airport officials. Islam claims that he was locked in a cell sans water or a bathroom for hours before he was finally deported. "I don't see any reason for this to happen in a time of peace," Islam said. According to an AP report, airport officials deny that Islam was mistreated in any way.
In other Cat Stevens news, VH1 will air Cat Stevens: Behind the Music on Oct. 1 at 9 p.m. The episode will tap various Stevens producers including Paul Samwell-Smith in addition to interviews with Islam himself. The episode claims to spotlight the "three lives" of the "Seventies superstar singer-songwriter" charting his earliest successes as a musician, his arrival as international star and ultimately his conversion to the Muslim faith, which marked the end of his recording career as Cat Stevens.
"It could help blow away some of those myths and erroneous stories that have circulated for years," Islam told RollingStone.com last month. "I hope people will finally realize that my life didn't change as much as it developed, and I always continued to be an artist. I made a choice to actively try to make a difference in the world, just as I wrote and sang about."
ANDREW DANSBY
(July 14, 2000)
he is a great song-writer who has no looks left (nevermind the obvious)
religions of peace are good for your looks.
"As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution to the dangerous path some world leaders today seem to be taking," he said in a statement posted on his Web site.
Yeah OK Mr. "Islam"...Enough said
When I see the horrible pictures and understand the amazing reality we face now, I have patience and can wait for things like "Economic Recovery." I don't buy into sugar-daddy Democrat politikal "suck my voting constituency forming domestic social program bullsh*t" any more. I so totally admire this President for holding his ground so thorougly and unrelentingly, and being strong and taking all the shit he takes knowing that in the end the France's and Germany's of the world will realize we hauled their arses from the brink of hell in times past. Bush has totally won a lot of us former liberals over by remaining strong.
BUT...
When Cat Stevens or any other stupid self proclaimed protected "artist" declares that "I am a member of humanity and as a Muslim this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution to the dangerous path some world leaders today seem to be taking" I have to vomit in a forcefull and unrecognizable way.
I see these anti-US protesters of our position in this war - for views these ungratefulls describe as being "dangerous" and stupid etc - as being nothing less than slackers and leeches who don't care anything about what we've done to help nations over the years.
They care nothing for we've done to help the French (bastards - think Normandy) and Germans (dumb and tall - think liberation from Hitler and Russia) and now they want to take something for nothing; they wanna bitch about GWB, who I view as a Completely Righteous Dude for standing strong against so much criticism from absolute insolets. France, and Germandy, and liberal idiots want everything and they give nothing back other than meaningless criticism about our "politics." I say go F&u* yourselves France and Germany and Liberal Protesters (my former friends).
!!!
IN crude analysis it seems to me that the Iraqi dictator is only partly eliminating these stupid weapons he has (and we ALL know he has them). The danger he himself faces now and has created for himself is of his own invention. And he bitches about what? Even his own expatriats dispute him and support us.
His compliance is at some pace like 10%. It's like he's driving at 10 MPH on a freeway or something. It's like his efforts are 10% of total disarming.
I don't think that 10% compliance with cease-fire terms is any better than having a heart muscle pumping at 10% efficiency. If my heart were to beat at some 10% efficiency I think I'd fall over dead.
Am I stupid or alone?
I know what you mean...
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