Yusuf Islam, the idiot formerly known as Cat Stevens, on UK TV Discussing Salmon Rushdie
When asked if he’d go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie he said, “I would have hoped that it’d be the real thing.” When asked what he’d do if Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help he said, “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.” When asked if Rusdie should die for his writings, he said “yes.”.
On March 8 1989, while speaking in London’s Regents Park Mosque, when asked by a Christian Science Monitor reporter how he would “cope with the idea of killing a writer for writing a book” he replied: “In Islam there is a line between let’s say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It’s got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.”
There was backlash over the Rushdie incident at the time, including the band 10,000 Maniacs, who had recorded “Peace Train” on their 1987 In My Tribe album, deleting the song from subsequent pressings of their album as a protest against the remarks he made.
If you hear this asshole’s music being played on the radio, immediately call the station and voice your displeasure.
If it is public radio tell them you will not contribute any money and tell every one you know to do the same.
If it is a commercial station tell them you will boycott the sponsors and then notify the sponsors of your intention.
The air time he receives translates into album sales which allows this jerk off to contribute his gains to Islamonazi terrorists.
Fuck him. Let’s burn Cat Stevens in effigy.
[...] His insistence that Yusuf Islam, a.k.a. Cat Stevens, didn’t say what he said about Salman Rushdie is also, of course, a bald-faced lie. [...]