Goofy maybe, but a terrorist?
Four threads on this already: two here in MPSIMS, one in the Pit, one in GQ.
It’s a pretty crappy system of checking for undesirables that first grants him access to the plane, only to later deny him the right to land after becoming airborne and, thus, additionally delaying the arrival of another 280 passengers.
The NPR guy explained it to me.
It’s revenge for “Morning Has Broken”.
Payback’s a bitch.
Oh, I’m being followed by an Air Marshal,
Air Marshal, Air Marshal.
My pants I’m dropping for an Air Marshal,
Air Marshal, Air Marshal.
If from the US, I get tossed out
I won’t moan and I won’t shout
Yes, if I ever get tossed out
Weh-eh-eh-eh, eh-eh-ell
I won’t go to Israel
Adapted from a Dennis Miller one liner
In the 70’s, I was often afraid to turn on my radio for fear of hearing his quavering, nasal voice and priggish lyrics. Does that count?
I agree. I heard him just once and am terrified that I might have to go through that again.
For most people, quickly listening to “Paint it, Black” or “Sympathy for the Devil” negates the effects.
So we should listen to the Stones after watching Harold and Maude?
The Musical Antidote: a fine idea, 'plant!
He’s not a terrorist.
He was widely reported to have endorsed the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Actually, he was just trying to explain it to a journalist. Like that’ll ever happen again.
It takes balls to stand publicly with a religion that’s monstrously unpopular in the west. Wonder if you’d do the same?
Yea, Yusef is a real sweetheart. Rune destroys that myth here. Perhaps you should read up on what the man actually has said instead of just blindly buying into the “I was misquoted” bullshit.
According to the last line of the AFP report quoted here the whole thing was a mistake, he was not on the list at all, it was just a similar name.
Here is the most incendiary direct quote Rune could muster. It stops pretty short of advocating murder, IMO.
What do you call this, then:
Although, fair’s fair: he does make it clear later on that he only advocates state-sanctioned murder for people expressing opinions he doesn’t like. Which, y’know, makes it all okay.
You’re cherrypicking. He makes it clear elsewhere in the article that Muslims living in Britain are bound by British law. He also states that he wants Muslims to have the same considerations that all other religious groups in the UK receive, citing a play that libeled Jews that the British government shut down. The column as a whole is well within the bounds of civil discourse, and not an incitement to terror.
Wasn’t Ted Kennedy recently stopped in an airport for being on the same watch list? Whatever your feelings about Ted Kennedy, isn’t that a bit much? How the hell many Ted Kennedys are there, anyway? How many Yousef Islams? There ought to be something more than a list. Unless your name is Ko-Ko. None of his will be missed. 
Ossam’s still out there, but we got Cat Stevens. I’m sure sleeping better at night.
I wonder if the Senator has made donations to any Irish charities that could be construed to support the IRA.
Like hell I am. He believes that Salman Rushdie should be put to death for writing a book. He also believes that it’s not up to individual Muslims living in Britain to carry out that sentence, only the duly empowered courts of theocracies like Iran. So he’s only in favor of state-sanctioned murder for people he disagrees with, not vigilante murder.
Which still makes him an asshole and a hypocrite.
Stevens is also suspected of giving money to Mouhammad Abdel-Rahman, a son of the notorious blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
(Source: GQ article quoted in New York Daily News
The GQ article is not available online, unfortunately.