1/25/2024 0 Comments Cat stevens mona bone jakon rar![]() He cited a makeweight of Christian extremism, but this isn’t a comparative religion exercise, and seeking moral equivalence with the Ku Klux Klan is hardly helping his case. He even suggested he’d been joking, and had been quoted out of context. He later qualified his statement, he was merely quoting Islamic doctrine on blasphemy – not necessarily advocating it. I know that true zealotry is the preserve of new converts with something to prove, but in the great ethical balance, a human life, a book, and a tetchy easily-offended deity, no-one who claims to value the latter two over the first should ever be taken seriously as a man of peace deserving respect. The Qur’an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die’. And the one-time Cat Stevens? As a then-recent convert to Islam, attending a seminar at Kingston University, he announced ‘he must be killed. Rushdie himself was forced into hiding, living an uncertain existence for years after. ![]() ![]() Copies of the book were burnt (unread) in the streets of Bradford. Ayatollah Khomeini had declared a fatwa against the author of the ‘Satanic Verses’. Whenever I hear Yusuf Islam being lauded as a cultural ambassador and a man of peace, I think back to February 1989. ![]()
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