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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Thursday, September 23 2004, 21:34:29 (CEST)
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Qasrani wrote:
>Cat Stevens Deported
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>I know that it is faintly ridiculous that Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam was deported on Wednesday from the US after the airplane he was on was diverted to Maine, on the grounds that he is a dire security threat to the country. David Letterman in his monologue allowed darkly as how the Feds were no doubt gunning for Gordon Lightfoot next. He also wickedly observed that despite Osama Bin Laden being at large, what with Cat Stevens deported and Martha Stewart in jail, he felt a lot safer.
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>But I have a hard time rushing to Yusuf Islam's defense because I never forgave him for advocating the execution of Salman Rushdie in 1989. He endorsed Khomeini's "fatwa" or death edict against Rushdie for the novel, Satanic Verses. He later explained this position away by saying that he did not endorse vigilante action against Rushdie, but would rather want the verdict to be carried out by a proper court. These are weasel words, since he was saying that if Khomeini had been able to field some Revolutionary Guards in London to kidnap Rushdie and take him to Tehran, it would have been just dandy if he were then taken out and shot for having written his novel. In my view, that entire episode of the Khomeini fatwa showed how sick some forms of Muslim activism had become, and served as a foretaste of al-Qaeda's own death warrant served on a lot of other innocent people.

...he has changes since then...now condemning the terorist acts of 9/11...but until you do more than keep silent and thereby STILL support the U.S. and its dog, Israel...as well as do something to show you are as disgusted as not "mere" words can show..as you claim Cat was being mealy-mouthed..I don`t see where you get off being so righteous..no one...NO ONE has murdered innocent people...authors too...like the Chriatians have and continue to do...how many Jewish authors were murderd just a while back? How many composers...artists, children?

..this is where I fault your good grades...how any student can escape schooling with "good grades" and be as myopic as you seem to be, puzzles me.

..I suppose this is an attack and I am angry and I don`t know you..and that even though you are free here to disagree and amplify and ridicule me...you`re going to long for aina right about now if for no other reason but that I can`t attack you there and spread my anger at that place Jassim keeps free and open for you..if you behave.
one another.

Let Christians clean up their mess...all over the world...then let`s criticize the very people we have been murdering for fifty years... WITHOUT a Fatwah!!!

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What a cool Cat Tiglath - Thursday, September 23 2004, 16:13:05 (CEST)
- Re: What a cool Cat parhad - 09/23 18:07
- no comment... Qasrani - 09/23 20:40
  - above from Prof. Juan Cole's Blog Qasrani - 09/23 20:42
  - Re: no comment... parhad - 09/23 21:34
    - Re: no comment... Qasrani - 09/23 21:41
      - Re: no comment... parhad - 09/24 17:14

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