Ahhhh... the former Cat Stevens singing his old tune.
Hey didn't Cat... errrr...Yusaf... call for the death of Salam Rushdie after he published "The Satanic Verses"?
He sure did!
Now is that the peace that you want?
Agh get a grip on yourself will you, he himself said that the media took that out of context
Cat is a man of peace, he does a lot of relief work, I had the privilege to meet him at one of the peace and unity events held here in the UK.
He is a wonderful man; we need more people like him in this world
Yusuf’s statement
‘’I’m very sad that this seems to be the No. 1 question people want to discuss. I had nothing to do with the issue other than what the media created. I was innocently drawn into the whole controversy. So, after many years, I'm glad at least now that I have been given the opportunity to explain to the public and fans my side of the story in my own words. At a lecture, back in 1989, I was asked a question about blasphemy according to Islamic Law, I simply repeated the legal view according to my limited knowledge of the Scriptural texts, based directly on historical commentaries of the Qur'an. The next day the newspaper headlines read, "Cat Says, Kill Rushdie." I was abhorred, but what could I do? I was a new Muslim. If you ask a Bible student to quote the legal punishment of a person who commits blasphemy in the Bible, he would be dishonest if he didn't mention Leviticus 25;16''
On his personal spiritual website he wrote:
I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini--and still don’t. The book itself destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis.
