'Peace Train Derailed'

The Spokesman-Review/People Etc | 5-11-03 | Unknown

[lilylangtree]

The '70s folkie formerly known as Cat Stevens has become a voice of moderate Islam since the Sept. 11 attacks. But Israeli officials are charging that thousands of dollars donated by the "Peace Train" songwriter for humanitarian causes in 1988 were rerouted to the terrorist group Hamas, GP magazine reports.

The article by Jake Tapper claims that Stevens, who changed his name to Yusef Islam in 1977, gave the money to Mouhammad Abdel-Rahman, a son of the notorious blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

"We don't think this--we know it," Israeli government spokesman Daniel Seaman tells the magazine.

Islam also helped radical cleric Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad get a lawyer after he was jailed for saying Britain's then-Prime Minister John Major was "a legitimate target" for assassination, the mag reports.

His brother, David Gordon, says Islam has distanced himself from radicals and argues "no one ever knows where the money goes" with such charities.

[lilylangtree]

Another H'weirdo leftist supporting a terrorist group. However, David Gordon doesn't show his intelligence with the remark "no one ever knows where the money goes." Then why donate the money?

[Bogey78O]

You know I used to confuse him for Ray Stevens. The names being similar and all.

[zook]

Yesterday, for the first time, I heard "Cat's" new version of "Peace Train." My reaction was strange. For the first time I heard the words not as a desire for peace and harmony, but as a "war cry," in the sense that for too many Islamists, "peace" can only come when Islam rules the world.

The song will always have an ominous sound to me now.

[gg188]

moderate Islam

Definition: Islam that believes in taking over the world by reproducing and immigration and via the polling booth, and THEN wiping out the Christians and Jews. RADICAL Islam simply skips the first steps.

[Drew68]

Cat Stevens' (born Stephen Demetre Georgiou) conversion always saddened me. He put out some great music in the 1970s, embracing the evil of Islam and turning his back on what was a successful career after nearly drowning.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Bummer! I always thought Cat converted to Buddhism.

[fporretto]

Not that I want to piddle on anyone's Cheerios, but Yusuf Islam a.k.a. Cat Stevens was several times heard screaming into radio-station microphones, just a few years back, that "Rushdie Must Die!"

To accept such a man's verbal protestations of innocence and trustworthiness after such a thing is not recommended to anyone who values his skin.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[PBRSTREETGANG]

Intersting transition from "Ride on The Peace Train" to "Hijack The Airplane".

[Drew68]

Bummer! I always thought Cat converted to Buddhism.

Nope! Not only did he convert to Islam, but he bought the whole filthy religion hook, line and sinker. At one point, he had given away all of his guitars because the extreme fundamentalist version of Islam he converted to prohibited all musical instruments except voice and percussion.

I've seen him in interviews and VH1 did an excellent "Behind the Music" episode about him and he is most certainly radicalized and deadly serious in his devotion.