Cat Stevens Gets Plane Diverted

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
I think you should go live in another country...

I think all the Busheep should leave the country. You're the ones who want to shred the Constitution and shit all over everything America supposedly stands for.

[ELVIS]

You wish the US didn't exist!

[wraytw]

HAHA! LMFAO!

It's quite amusing to watch Cock try to make himself look like a tough guy, and then say he doesn't like violence.

"Violence is a bad thing... BUT I GET INTO FIGHTS WITH THE HELL'S ANGELS!!!"

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
You wish the US didn't exist!

No, I wish we had an elected President who respected the fucking Constitution.

[ELVIS]

We do...

[FORD]

We do? I knew I overslept this morning, but I didn't realize it was January 20th already.

[ELVIS]

Now you're blabbing just to get the last word...

[FORD]

Another Ramadan night and I ain't got nobody
I'm not a martyr 'cause I won't crash a plane
Now how I wish I had some virgins to talk to
I'm in an awful way.

I got in America a month ago
I seen a lot of girls since then,
If I could meet 'em I could get 'em
And add them to my harem
Thats how I'm in the state I'm in.

CHORUS

A Muslim brother told me
He had a sister who looked just fine
Instead of bein' my deliverance
She had a strange resemblance
To a Jew named Benjamin Stein.

CHORUS

Its hard on a Muslim
When he don't know his way around
If I don't find me a honey
To help me spend my money
I'm gonna have to blow up this town.

Another Ramadan night and I ain't got nobody
I've got some money 'cause I just got paid
How I wish I had some virgins to talk to
I'm in an awful, ooh, I'm in an awful way,
He's in an awful way, I'm in an awful way,
I'm in an awful way, He's in an awful way.

[Wayne L.]

Yusaf Islam formerly known as 70's pop legend Cat Stevens should denounce Islam as well as becoming a Muslim because it's a gutter religion based on violence instead of peaceful existence with others & get back to being an artist & human being based in reality.

[FORD]

"Suddenly the media tried linking me to supporting Iran's Fatwa on Salman Rushdie. The fact is that I never did support the Fatwa. Such is the irony. You wouldn't ask a Christian to deny one of the Ten Commandments; equally, as a new Muslim, I couldn't deny that the Quran, just like Leviticus in the Bible, forbade blasphemy and if there is no repentance, made it a capital offence.

But what most people-including many Muslims-fail to recognize, is that the Quran repeatedly calls on believers to repent, to uphold the rule of civility and not to take the law in their own hands. Clerics and extremists who call for the assassination of civilians outside the recognized bounds of the Islamic State without due process are wholly out of line with the limits and spirit of Islam. The Koran states, 'And do not let your hatred of some people…cause you to transgress (the law).'"

[Sgt Schultz]

Catshit Stevens 1st Statement of Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie

“Stevens attacked Rushdie and The Satanic Verses while preaching to Muslim students in southern England yesterday.

"The Koran makes it clear - if someone defames the Prophet, then he must die," said the former singer-songwriter, who penned such hits as "I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun" and "Wild World."

Stevens, who also called in one of his 1970s hits for the world to board "The Peace Train," said Rushdie should repent for writing what many Muslims view as blasphemy.

"Under Islam, if a man has done someone ill, he must make amends," he said.

"He must ask his publishers to get back his books and if necessary he must spend every penny he has to get them all."
Sources - Toronto Star. Feb 23, 1989; REUTERS.

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Catshit Stevens 2nd Statement of Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie

“Yousuf Islam (Cat Stevens) Reaffirms Views on Rushdie”
“Yousuf Islam-as the former pop music star Cat Stevens is now known-has once again explained that Islamic law calls for the death of "The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie, and this time he has chosen to speak to viewers of the Christian Science Church's new "World Monitor" cable TV news program.

The interview was a major scoop for the Boston-based news program and was Islam's first extended interview since he became a part of the worldwide furor over the Rushdie book.

"When I studied (what the Koran says about this subject) I found that, yes, the evidence is all there," Islam told "World Monitor" London correspondent Ned Temko in an interview broadcast late Tuesday. "(Rushdie) has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. . . . Any writer who abuses the Prophet or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law the sentence for that is actually death. . . . (Rushdie's writings are) as good as stabbing Muslims in the heart."

Temko conducted the interview with Islam on Monday in a mosque north of London.

Islam did not apologize for his controversial earlier statements and, indeed, reaffirmed his support of the Ayatollah Khomeini's call for the death of the novelist.

"It's got to be seen as a deterrent so that other people should not commit the same mistake again," Islam said. "Let's face it, America has the atom bomb. It's a deterrent . . . able to blow up a whole nation of people. What we are talking about is a deterrent for individuals to be careful not to disturb the society in which they live."

Islam chose the news program on the relatively obscure 18-hour-a-day Discovery cable channel, which is available to 37.6 million U.S homes because, "World Monitor" officials said Wednesday, he liked the way he was treated in a report that the program broadcast last fall on the rise of the Muslim faith in the United States.

Islam "felt he was treated very fairly, and he and Ned struck up a good relationship," said Sanford Socolow, the show's producer.

Temko contacted Islam when comments supporting Khomeini's calls were attributed to the one-time singer-songwriter. Temko told The Times on Wednesday that Islam was "puzzled by the depth and range" of the furor over his statements, including destruction of his old recordings as part of radio station promotions.

"Certainly that was what prompted him to speak at all," said Temko from London.”
Source - STEVE HOCHMAN, Los Angeles Times, Mar 9, 1989.

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Catshit Stevens 3rd Statement of Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie

“The musician known as Cat Stevens said in a British television program to be broadcast next week that rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, ''I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.''

The singer, who adopted the name Yusuf Islam when he converted to Islam, made the remark during a panel discussion of British reactions to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's call for Mr. Rushdie to be killed for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his best-selling novel ''The Satanic Verses.'' He also said that if Mr. Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help, ''I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like.''

''I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is,'' said Mr. Islam, who watched a preview of the program today and said in an interview that he stood by his comments.

The statements by Mr. Islam and several other participants in the discussion demonstrate how divided British liberal intellectuals remain over the affair. British writers and publishers have signed petitions backing Mr. Rushdie's freedom to write what he wishes, but there have been no public readings of his works. 'Not a Pacifist Religion'

Several of the participants defended Mr. Rushdie. The writer Fay Weldon, for example, said, ''Burn the book today, kill the writer tomorrow.'' She said she was offended by Mr. Islam's remarks, which she said incited people to violence.

Also on the show was Dr. Kalim Siddiqui, director of the Muslim Institute in London and one of the organizers of a nationwide demonstration against ''Satanic Verses'' that is scheduled for Hyde Park on Saturday. He said: ''I wouldn't kill him, but I'm sure that there are very many people in this country prepared at the moment. If they could lay their hands on Rushdie, he would be dead.

''As a British citizen, I have a duty, if you like, a social contract with the British state, not to break British law. We are not a pacifist religion. We don't turn the other cheek. We hit back.''
Source - Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie, New York Times, May 23, 1989, By CRAIG R. WHITNEY

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Catshit Stevens 4th Statement of Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie

“"I prefer not to talk about it," Brother Yusuf explains later, "because it really diverts us. ... It seems again to pinpoint what apparently is described as a clash of world views."

Yet when he finally relents and does talk about it, it's clear he intends to take nothing back.

"For a person who blasphemes, either 1,400 years ago or today, it's the same thing in Islam," Brother Yusuf explains. "And actually, if you endeavor to look into the Christian faith and the Jewish faith, you'll find that there's total support for that view. Which is that the blasphemer is considered very seriously, and the punishment is the same... .

"In the holy texts of the Bible, Moses condemns such a man to a stoning. Jesus himself says anyone who reviles the Holy Spirit ... shall not be forgiven ... not in this world or in the life to come. Now what does that mean, `in this world'? He's got to be killed! He has to be executed!"
Source - Cat, Cradled in Islam;Former Pop Singer Stevens, Finding a Meaning to Life as a Muslim; Lloyd Grove. The Washington Post, Jul 22, 1991.

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Catshit Stevens 5th Statement of Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie

“Islam reentered the limelight in March 1989, when he joined the parade of Muslims who endorsed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death sentence for Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses."

That provoked a firestorm.

Not only did people now know what the former Cat Stevens was up to, they didn't like it. What resulted were record burnings in LA, playlist purges on soft-rock stations and a blast of anti-Stevens invective.

"There goes the peace train," snarled political satirist Barry Crimmins at the time. "What a jerk Stevens is," said Dale Dorman, on the air at WXKS (KISS-108).

Islam was playing it cool this week when asked about the public's reaction.

"From our point of view, the sacred is the sacred and the blasphemous the blasphemous," he told an interviewer of his intolerance toward Rushdie, and he denied to the Globe that such extremism must distort his religious practice.”
He's singing a different song The former Cat Stevens focuses on faith
Mark Muro, Globe Staff. Boston Globe, Jul 25, 1991

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Catshit Stevens 6th Statement of Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie

“Islam [Stevens] “complained that since his conversion, his words about Islam have been ignored or sensationalized in the media. He was particularly critical of news coverage of his remarks a decade ago about author Salman Rushdie, although he did not recant from or apologize for his position that Islamic law would allow capital punishment for what Islam described as the author's unrepentant blasphemy.

Instead, Islam complained that the very question posed to him about Rushdie was "cunning," an effort to hurt his image.” “
Source - FAMOUS SONGWRITER HITS THE ROAD TO EXPLAIN HIS JOURNEY TO ISLAM; MICHAEL PAULSON AND DIEGO RIBADENEIRA, Globe Staff. Boston Globe. Boston, Mass.: Apr 8, 2000

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Catshit Stevens His Statements Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie
Were ‘Taken out of Context”
“In recent interviews Stevens says the media blew his earlier comments on whether he considered Rushdie's book blasphemous out of all proportion with headlines like "Cat Says Kill Rushdie"--which he denies ever having uttered.

"Some people were intent on damaging my character," he says. "They tried to trap me, taking what I said out of context... It was very hurtful.

"In retrospect, I could have handled it better with a bit of help, but I was trying to avoid further confrontation."
Source - OLD CAT'S STILL HIP;DIX, John. New Truth & TV Extra. Auckland, New Zealand: Jun 23, 2000

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Catshit Stevens 7th Statement of Agreeing with the Death Sentence of Salman Rushdie While At The Same Time Complaining That ‘people tried to paint me into a hole’
“Still, Islam speaks with cautious deliberation and visibly stiffens at mention of a scandal that enraged the Western world in 1989 and briefly pulled him back onto the public stage. In condemning Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini placed a "fatwa," or death sentence, on the author. Queried for comment, Islam neither defended nor denounced the decree but quoted Islamic law, which states that anyone guilty of blasphemy must be put to death.

"All I did was to read, literally, out of the textbook," he says. "If you were to read Leviticus today, your blood would curdle. So it's all there in the Scriptures, (but when) it's taken out of context, it sounds foreign, strange, harsh."

Infuriated fans and disc jockeys deemed Islam's response an endorsement of the fatwa and rebelled by trashing his records and reputation.

In a formal statement later, Islam said Rushdie's "blasphemous book insults God and his prophets, including those prophets honored by Christians, Jews, as well as Muslims." He also noted that Islamic law binds Muslims to abide by a governing country's laws, provided they don't restrict freedom to worship and serve God.

"People just tried to damage me," he says. "I had very little defense. I had no publicist, no manager, nobody to help me respond in a professional way. And I just decided to bear it. It was very unfortunate that people tried to paint me into a hole, and I am much bigger than that. But I was a Muslim celebrity, so a good target. In hindsight, I would have been much more cautious, as I am cautious today about answering any questions."
Source - Former Cat Stevens rides a peace train back to pop Yusuf Islam, at ease with life, returns to recording; Edna Gundersen. USA TODAY. .: Jul 18, 2000.

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Catshit Stevens Says AIDS is Allah’;s Punishment Against Gays

“He is equally calm when he turns to homosexuality and AIDS.

"We learn that there are certain normalities," he says, "which a human being, if he follows, will find that his life becomes quite reasonable, quite all right. Now if you step out of the boundaries of those normalities, you'll find things happening to you - not just in this area of sexual perversion, but even if a person starts stealing. You know, okay, he gets away with it, but doesn't he find later that somehow, someday, something bad happens to him?" He laughs. "You may not be able to link the two in your own mind, you haven't the objectivity to do so, but if you actually look at it, if you follow it back, somewhere you did something wrong."
Source - Cat, Cradled in Islam;Former Pop Singer Stevens, Finding a Meaning to Life as a Muslim; Lloyd Grove. The Washington Post, Jul 22, 1991.
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Catshit Stevens and His Buddy Saddam
“Islam [Stevens] describes the Iraqi president as a "congenial fellow and brother Moslem” “
Source - Spanky wants saloon to pay;Russell Roe. Austin American Statesman. Austin, Tex.: Sep 15, 1990. pg. A.24

[ODShowtime]

Where do you find all this stuff? Are you a researcher or something?

[wraytw]

Google.com... a whole wolrd at your fingertips. :D

[Sgt Schultz]

Originally posted by ODShowtime
Where do you find all this stuff? Are you a researcher or something?

I have done a lot of research at various archives, Carlisle Barracks, historical societies etc. I've looked at a lot of microfilm too.

This stuff I found through Proquest (online) which allows you to search ALL newspapers for every year but back to about 1984. It doesn't have every nespaper for every year but it is still pretty comprehensive and gets better the later the year is.

[Sgt Schultz]

Bye bye Catshit - don't let your luggage hit you on the ass on your way out you worthless Islamofasict Homophobe moron!!