At least one too many.
I support the decision to bar this asshole from the US. I can just imagine it…Stevens (or Yusef, or whatever he calls himself) goes to Atlanta, and makes a speech at a local mosque, and calls for a jihad against the infidels. State Dept. gets heat, and the local congressman demands to know how this guy (Stevens) was allowed to enter the USA. The poor shmuck that approved the visa is then hung out to dry.
To hell with Yusef…he should realize that he isn’t welcome!
I don’t know a thing about Cat Stevens, but I’d take anything Rune posts with a grain of salt or maybe a whole saltshaker.
Here’s a story from Canada detailing a visit he made there a few years back.
For copyright reasons, I’ll just quote the opening paragraphs:
TORONTO - Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was the guest of honour at a Toronto fundraising dinner hosted by an organization that has since been identified by the Canadian government as a “front” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
In a videotape of the 1998 event obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a “so-called new society” created by a “so-called religion” and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to "lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land.
The Jerusalem Fund is one of four “fronts” named in a secret Privy Council Office memo that was sent to Jean Chretien, then prime minister, on May 23, 2000, discussing what it called groups that "have unsavoury links with terrorism.
“In a limited number of cases, fundraising in support of violent foreign struggles takes place in Canada through the cover of ethnic, religious or community-based associations and groups, lobbying and even criminal activity,” the report says.
“Front groups operating in Canada include the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services (Hamas Front), the World Tamil Movement (Tamil Tigers Front), the Canadian Kurdish Information Network (Kurdistan Workers Party Front) and the Babbar Khalsa (a Sikh extremist front).”
I’ll let you read the whole story and let you decide for yourself, but this direct quote –
– makes it sound like he doesn’t have a problem with killing Israelis.