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Cat Stevens/ Yusuf Islam/The Law
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, July 18 2008, 19:40:34 (CEST)
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...in 1936 German Christians voted to change their laws so that Jews could be "legally" persecuted...they turned religion into a "crime", to allow them to change persecution into prosecution...to make it "legal".

It's the same thing the very Christian Bush has tried to do...I mean change our laws because the Jews/Arabs are "coming to get us"which, as we now know, simply means the Christians are the ones out gunning for people.

Thankfully he hasn't been able to go all the way with trashing our Constitution...and I guess in England they're still hanging onto theirs because Yusuf Islam was able to win his case. But they didn't change things in Germany overnight....Christians are very patient when it comes to setting up laws that allow them to murder the Innocent...which also began in Germany with slander and libel first and then moved on to legal-murder...so Bush and his Christians still have time. They certainly aren't going to stop now.

But at least this trial balloon popped...the effort to slander a Muslim, especially one who had the temerity to CONVERT from Orthodox Christianity, was ultimately shot down, though it did enough damage because now Christians will concluide that their laws are "soft" on Muslims...and that only helps them change the laws for the next time...don't say you weren't warned by history...by very recent history.



Yusuf Islam wins damages for "veiled women"



LONDON (Reuters) - British folk singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, on Friday accepted libel damages and an apology from a news agency which reported he refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil.


The artist, who changed his name after becoming a Muslim in the late 1970s, will donate the "substantial" payout to Small Kindness, a UN-linked charity which he chairs.

Adam Tudor, the singer's solicitor, told London's High Court that the story behind the legal action was published by World Entertainment News Network and was used on Contactmusic.com, a Web site said to have 2.2 million page views a month.

The article appeared in March last year and suggested that the singer was "so sexist and bigoted that he refused at an awards ceremony to speak to or even acknowledge any women who were not wearing a veil," Tudor said.

"It went on to suggest that Mr. Islam's manager had stated 'Mr. Islam doesn't speak with women except his wife. Least of all if they don't wear a headscarf. Things like that only happen via an intermediary.'"

Tudor said the article had embarrassed the singer, creating a false impression of his attitude to women and also casting serious aspersions on his religious faith.

World Entertainment News Network issued an apology, saying:

"We now accept that these allegations ... are entirely without foundation, and that Mr. Islam has never had any difficulties working with women, whether for religious or for any other reason."

Islam, 59, is still best known for his hits as Cat Stevens, including "Wild World," "Morning Has Broken" and "Moonshadow."

He sold an estimated 60 million albums as Stevens, but retired from showbusiness in 1978 after converting to Islam. He released his first mainstream pop album since then in 2006.



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