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There were reports that Stevens carried a great deal of money to give to Hamas, that seems to have been in 1988. That was why he was forbidden entry into Israel after that.

Here's another mention of him similarly:

from link http://www.alb-net.com and link to original 1999 bbc article

*** DEMAND MACEDONIA TO RETURN MONEY STOLEN FROM YUSUF ISLAM (CAT STEVENS) MEANT TO AID REFUGEES.

Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, was robbed by Macedonian border guards who took 60,000 deutsch marks from him as he crossed into Albania to distribute aid to Kosovar refugees according to an AP report. Macedonia continues to have a hostile attitude towards the poor refugees and is impeding aid from reaching them. Please call the Macedonian Embassy and demand that they immediately return Yusuf Islam's money to him for distribution among refugees and stop aiding Serbs and their genocide.

One more interesting link re: Stevens. Mostly I read that he converted after a near-death experience, while swimming.

But this says otherwise -- did he get into islam by meeting up with this group in Pakistan? I don't know:

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"Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) of Pakistan, headed by Lt. Gen. (retd) Javed Nasir, former Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) have supported Islamist extremist movements in different countries, including amongst members of the Muslim community in the US.... Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, a famous pop singer, who embraced Islam after coming into contact with the TJ in Pakistan; Dr. Saghir of Algeria; and Dr. Israr Ahmed, the Amir of the Tanzeem Islami of Pakistan and a worker of the TJ.

Below is just the one paragraph that I excerpted above, but LOTS more besides this at that link in #1875 (I added a little format here to make it easier to read):

Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) of Pakistan, headed by Lt. Gen. (retd) Javed Nasir, former Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) have supported Islamist extremist movements in different countries, including amongst members of the Muslim community in the US.

HuM terrorists have been active in Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Burma, Philippines and Jammu and Kashmir. HuM terrorists maintain strong links with terrorist outfits based in countries like Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Jordan primarily following their mutual association during the Afghan war.

Among the foreign terrorists trained by the HuM at its training camps in Pakistan, Pakistan controlled Kashmir (PcK) and Afghanistan were 16 African-American Muslims from various cities of the US. Funds for these activities were traced to Muslim businessmen of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UK. TJ had/has many offices in the US, Russia, the Central Asian Republics, South Africa, Australia and France. Amongst the organisations/outfits in the US with which the TJ is linked are the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA).

A past president of ISNA is Sheikh Abdullah Idris Ali, an American immigrant of Sudanese origin, who also functioned as the Pesh Imam (chief priest) and Khatib of a mosque in New York. The annual convention of the ISNA held at Columbus, Ohio, from September 11,1995, was addressed amongst others, by Hamza Yusuf, an American citizen of Greek origin, who, consequent to embracing Islam, had lived for six years in Mauritania to study Islam and also work as a TJ preacher; Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, a famous pop singer, who embraced Islam after coming into contact with the TJ in Pakistan; Dr. Saghir of Algeria; and Dr. Israr Ahmed, the Amir of the Tanzeem Islami of Pakistan and a worker of the TJ.

The convention observed that the ISNA had a US $ 100 million budget for spreading Islamic education in the US primarily through the publication of text-books, setting-up of week-end Islamic schools and also a weekly TV programme called "Onsight".

Amongst the suspected members of the TJ in the Muslim community in the US is Louis Fara Khan, the Afro-American Muslim leader. The TJ operates in the US and the Caribbean islands directly through its own preachers deputed from Pakistan and also recruited from among the Pakistani immigrant community in the US, besides through front outfits such as the Jamaat-ul-Fuqra.

The HuM, which works in close association with the TJ, has been training Afro-American Muslims from the US in its terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.