Yusuf Islam, (Cat Stevens)denied admission to U.S. on ¡®security grounds¡¯

[rpannier]

This is just too funny. Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam was denied entry because he is on a name watch list by the US government. What I find so amusing is that Mr. Islam's claim to fame is:

1) A peace advocate.
2) He founded an Islamic school in the UK which is recognized by the British Government and receives funding from said government.
3) Mr. Islam loudly denounced the 9/11 attacks as a crime against all people.
4)He denounced the school taking and murder of children in Beslan, Russia.

Yep. Sounds like a real threat to National Security to me.
God, what a F**Ked up government we have. Thank God, I work and live in Korea right now.

[Skidmore]

1. Wha...?

A "peace advocate"??? If he's a "piece advocate", I understand why they stopped him.

[rpannier]

2. Thank you n/t

[LiberalVoice]

3. Oh you damn "typo catchers" think you're just hilarious don't you?!?!?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!! :P

[Skidmore]

4. Don't do that by habit since I make errors myself,

but that one was too funny.

[TahitiNut]

16. It's the dreaded Homonym Virus.

Spelling checkers are rendered helpless.

[Mistress Quickly]

5. Didn't he support the Ayatollah Khomenie

in Iran in the 80's?

So all sorts of people come into the US, Saudis, Yemenis, etc but an American get booted out of the country? Figures.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. I love Cat Stevens music...i have all his albums...this is sad

[moulty]

7. Bush's "war on terror" : Bin Laden free, but we caught Cat Stevens

I hope some columnist writes a column saying :

Bush's "war on terror" : Bin Laden still free, but we caught Cat Stevens.

[peekaloo]

8. He's being followed by a goon shadow, goon shadow, goon shadow.

:P

[MuseRider]

9. HAHAHAHAHA

LOL thanks for my morning laugh. Such a stupid, awful situation but I can't help but laugh. Good one.

[Gruenemann]

10. He vociferously advocated the fatwa

that called on the faithful to kill Salman Rushdie. He may be a peace advocate now, but his past may be following him around. I certainly don't trust him.

[Aidoneus]

12. "vociferously"?!

if by 'vociferous', you mean 'passively and on impersonally-technical grounds', that would be a true statement..

[Gruenemann]

13. Nope, I saw him on the news

CNN, back in the good old days. He was speaking intensely and passionately about it. Nothing 'passive' or 'technical' about it. Straight from the horse's mouth.

But you don't need to take my word for it. Read all about it at:
http://www.fact-index.com/c/ca/cat_stevens.html

[MrBenchley]

11. Yet the White House ignores the greater threat posed by Brewer & Shipley

Wow, pResident Toot protects America from Cat Stevens and Tommy Chong....don't you feel safer NOW?

Me neither.

[Jack The Tab]

14. I remember him supporting the death threat against Rushdie...

and thought to myself "what an ass, allying yourself with fundamentalist idiots"

and now it comes back to him. Not that I'm saying that he's any kind of threat, but actions do have consequences.

[Gruenemann]

15. I'm glad someone else remembers. eom

[rpannier]

17. But you know as well as I do...

the Rushdie thing has nothing to do with this.

[Scurrilous]

18. They're claiming new info :

'New info' led to Cat Stevens' deportation

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040923-125929-2576r.htm

<snip>

"Islam -- who was, Ridge said, "one of my favorite artists," -- had visited the United States as recently as May. But a U.S. government official, who asked not to be identified, told United Press International that "more recent information... (gained) within the past two months," had led authorities to place him on a "no fly" list."

[lectrobyte]

19. I liked Jon Stewart's comment, isn't the watch list supposed to

keep terrorists from getting on the plane?

But seriously, I have trouble envisioning Cat Stevens as an Enemy of the State.

Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again