CRYING watching Cat Stevens on "Nobel Peace Prize Concert" honoring Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank!!

SENT TO EVERYONE IN MY ADDRESS BOOK.:toast: :hi: :yourock: :hug:

even during Vietnam , we had some great music to unite us and through the words and sounds bring us some hope .

Off to watch, thanks.

off of his new CD, which is very good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM9zKyDz4ko&mode=related&search=

:hi: I had no idea he had a new CD, that's great to know.

I bought a greatest hits CD and his new one too. It's very good. He has been one of my favorites for years. I am so glad he is recording again.

And Peace Train is one of the best peace songs ever.

that came out last year and downloaded other stuff off of iTunes.

Cat Stevens is a frickin musical genius.

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

Bless your heart BBJ, belief in a peaceful world is needed now more than ever.

:hi: :hug:

:loveya: :pals:

apologies to Kirk Douglas/Spartacus.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-cat.html

May 23, 1989

Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie

I'm still upset enough about it to not believe him when he sings about peace.

And with the media the way it is, that certainly wouldn't surprise me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7KnWHDFsjo

He says Rushdie deserves to die but that he is not "necessarily" obligated to kill him "unless in an Islam country and ordered to do so"

When asked if he would go to a protest where Rushdie was burned in effegy Cat says "I would hope it would be the real thing."

One thing nice about our digital age, people can no longer blame the media for "misinterpreting" them.

It seems outrageous to me for him to blame the media in light of his own words.

Which is the real Cat Stevens? The Peace Train or the "Rushdie deserves to die".

"I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini--and still don’t. The book itself destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis...

When asked about my opinion regarding blasphemy, I could not tell a lie and confirmed that--like both the Torah and the Gospel--the Qur’an considers it, without repentance, as a capital offense. The Bible is full of similar harsh laws if you’re looking for them. However, the application of such Biblical and Qur’anic injunctions is not to be outside of due process of law, in a place or land where such law is accepted and applied by the society as a whole..."

tripe. It wasn't Rushdie who "destroyed the harmony between peoples" it was the leaders of Islam.

I get to say what I want. The society can ignore me, disagree with me, hate me. But as with the Danish cartoons, Rushdie and the Danish publishers did not incite the riot, the riot (distruction of the harmony) was manufactured by Muslim leaders for political purposes.

We are either going to live in a world of ideas or we are going to live in a world of superstition. When people like Cat Stevens say Rushdie was wrong because he destroyed the harmony (WHAT harmony?) or that the death penalty is okay for blasphemy in some countries and with due process you leave the world of ideas and enter head strong into the world of superstition.

It is a tragedy that Cat Stevens, who could be a great spokesperson for his religion, drank the Kool Aid.

The Bible says people who eat clams should be stoned to death.

I don't agree with it, but that's what the Bible says.

"It is a tragedy that Cat Stevens, who could be a great spokesperson for his religion, drank the Kool Aid. "

Oh, the irony...

with due process in a place where such law is accepted and applied by the society as a whole, that works for you? With 90% of Americans Christian, if Congress passed a law saying let's stone people who eat clams, that would work for you? Better still, what if Congress passed a law making it punishable BY DEATH to say anything bad about Christians or the government (they are one in the same under the system advocated by the Koran). You wouldn't object if 90% of us voted for it?

I don't even get your comment about irony. I was in favor of the sanctions against South Africa for civil rights abuses. Are you saying if they do it in the name of the Bible or the Koran it's okay? Slavery? Burkas? Female genital mutilation? Fine as long as its what the majority wants?

Killing people who speak out against the state is wrong. We should fight against it wherever it is. Stevens thinks it's okay if a group of people agree to kill people for their words. How is that right?

...:thumbsup:

Glad to see Stevens met himself on The Peace Train.

He sounds great.

PS Long time, no see! :hug:

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

Or does he still support the assasination of Salman Rushdie??

http://kiva.org/

We've made 16 loans so far. It's good for the soul.

Peace Train my ass.

and when the do something great like Mohd. Yunus they are just ordinary people...?

Just thought I would point that out...

It has always struck how every crazy asshole with a bomb is magically turned into a 'jihadi' by the magic of televivion news... Sometimes a crazy bastard with a bomb is just that... a crazy bastard with a bomb...

http://www.thegreenchildren.org

Check it out :)