Posted on 05/18/2009 9:22:47 AM PDT by GreatDaggar
CNN: You mean you're not dangerous?
Yusuf: No! Touch me! (laughs) It was upsetting for a lot more people than myself. And you know, I'm here now (in the United States), so things are kind of working themselves out. But there's a new administration, a new president, and it's a great new day.
CNN: Obama seems to be reaching out to people of all faiths around the world.
Yusuf: I think a person like Obama has some kind of faith in his special role that he has to perform. And that role -- if not prophetic -- it's a divine role. It's helping humanity and people get together and live together and prosper. That's a big demand on one person, so it cannot happen with him alone. There's going to have to be a lot of changes around the world. But it is happening.
CNN: There are people who have said you've been associated with groups funneling money to Hamas.
Yusuf: Yup. Yeah. So the biggest thing in my life is ... why do I have to defend being charitable? Oh, because somehow, somewhere, somebody got a bit of that money, and he's on a list, and somebody else is on a list -- God almighty! That has nothing to do with me. I'm just trying to be charitable!
I think if everybody followed every penny that they ever gave, they would find some very interesting stories behind what has happened to their money. Possibly a lot of it would have gone to waste in administration, as well as other places. It's unfortunate that people have to associate someone because he's got a different faith -- or because he's a Muslim -- with something bad.
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Ugh. Same guy who thanks Allah for every Jew and American soldier killed.
CNN probably thanks Obama for every Jew and American soldier killed. I’m not sure which is more disgusting.
Yusuf: Yup. Yeah. So the biggest thing in my life is ... why do I have to defend being charitable?
Because the "charity" is going to a terrorist organization, you nitwit.
Obama has some kind of faith in his special role that he has to perform....
I think the book of Revelations speaks to this “special role”....
(I don’t think Zero is the AC but if you checked his scalp I bet there’s a 664 or 665 somewhere there)
Ooo, baby, baby, it’d a wild world
Hard to get by just upon a smile
I agree. Pharoah and Haman had “divine roles” as well.
Peace Train, schmeece train! Kill Rushdie!
From the National Review:2004
In a videotape of the 1998 event [a Toronto fundraising dinner hosted by an organization that has since been identified by the Canadian government as a “front” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas] obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a “so-called new society” created by a “so-called religion” and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to “lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land.”
Mr. Islam then begins a 45-minute speech in English in which he says it is “intolerable” for Muslims to “stand and watch” the situation in the Middle East. He describes Jerusalem as the centre of a land that is holy because of its connection to Allah. “So this city which is blessed because of its religious nature. Therefore, what we see today is the result of the departure of religion from this area, of the uprooting of religion. So many of the people of the faith have been exiled from this region, moved on, to make way for what? Strangely and ironically, they moved on in the name of so-called religion, on behalf of ... the Jews.
He’s right - Obama is a symbol of God’s judgment on America
I guess,in Israel at least,you can say that "Yusef" is #1 With A Bullet.
Cats out of the cradle again?
dingbat.
Does anybody here thing this guy would have such high praise for anybody he didn’t think was working for the Muslim side?
Hey, Cat. Shut up and sing.
Fixed it, never liked his crap in the 70s anyway.
I wound up catching this guy’s act the other night on Jimmy Fallon’s show. When Yusuf Islam took the stage, Fallon introduced him only as “Yusuf.” I’d didn’t think that was too strange because I think Jimmy Fallon is probably lame brained enough to forget the man’s last name and would make a point of correcting himself on the back end of the set. But then he did it again at the end of the 2 song set when he thanked him and gave the plug for Islam’s new CD. I’m not sure who decided to pretend the guy’s last name wasn’t Islam but it was definitely being avoided.
Yes. We know.
Obama sees it as his destiny to destroy the "Great Satan".
Absolutley. We get it.
What a sick man!
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