Re: (no subject)

Just weighing in, mostly because a friend sent me info re: Yusaf's new
cd and what I thought about it a few days ago.  Looking thru news items
and doing a couple quickie 'searches', I came up with this bit...he's
gotten too extreme, too far away...

Yusuf Islam's own website further reveals his fundamentalist and
radical bent. It celebrates his collaboration with a notorious American
Islamist, Shaikh Hamza Yusuf [Hanson]. Hamza Yusuf was known before
September 11 for his radical preaching. In 1991, Hamza Yusuf "gave a
provoking speech about why 'Jihad is the Only Way,'" at an International
Islamic Conference held at the University of Southern California by the
local unit of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a front for
the al Qaeda-allied Jama'at-i-Islami movement in Pakistan. The same Los
Angeles event was addressed by Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted
co-conspirator named in 1995 in a plot to blow up New York City
monuments..

Stephen Schwartz, an author and journalist, is author of The Two Faces
of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror. A vociferous
critic of Wahhabism, Schwartz is a frequent contributor to National
Review, The Weekly Standard, and other publications. 

>>> <[email protected]> 11/15/2006 11:47 AM >>>
What I have heard him say is that he was misquoted.  The fact is that 
what 
we have all heard about that incident came through the media and most
of us  
know how that goes.  The man did just receive Britain's  "Man of Peace 
Award" 
in 2004 a month after being refused entry to the U.S. because he was on
 the 
"No-Fly" list.  So, I think it is fair to say that there are 
conflicting 
opinions of his character.  The U.S. government did admit their 
mistake and he is 
no longer on that list.
 
 
In a message dated 11/15/2006 9:28:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
[email protected] writes:

You mean  the peace and love musician of the 70s who publicly supported
the 
calls for  assassination of Salman Rushdie in the 80s?

On 11/14/06, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected])   <[email protected]_

(mailto:[email protected]) > wrote:  
Is  anyone else excited about the release of Yusuf Islam's (Cat
Stevens)  new
record?

David