Cat Stevens / Yusuf has been invited to play at a HUGE music festival - Glastonbury 2023 - this summer.
I think this is a horribly bad, no good decision. Years ago Yusuf supported the death sentence fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his book "The Satanic Verses". Since then, Yusuf has tried to sidestep the issue, but he's never stated cleanly and clearly that the fatwa is a horrible idea.
Yusuf should NEVER get a free pass to pretend this never happened. Salman Rushdie was attacked, and almost killed, by an Islamist less than a year ago. This is not "old news".
This article completely ignores Yusuf's bad actions, argh!:
Yusuf/Cat Stevens on his new album, dreams of a Green Day collab, and the Glasto legend's slot
BTW, if you haven't read "The Satanic Verses", you ought to. This book was used by Islamists as a reason to justify violent, sometimes deadly protests throughout the world. It takes some real mental gymnastics to see how this book is offensive, and even if it was, that does NOT justify violence.
I think this is a horribly bad, no good decision. Years ago Yusuf supported the death sentence fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his book "The Satanic Verses". Since then, Yusuf has tried to sidestep the issue, but he's never stated cleanly and clearly that the fatwa is a horrible idea.
Yusuf should NEVER get a free pass to pretend this never happened. Salman Rushdie was attacked, and almost killed, by an Islamist less than a year ago. This is not "old news".
This article completely ignores Yusuf's bad actions, argh!:
Yusuf/Cat Stevens on his new album, dreams of a Green Day collab, and the Glasto legend's slot
BTW, if you haven't read "The Satanic Verses", you ought to. This book was used by Islamists as a reason to justify violent, sometimes deadly protests throughout the world. It takes some real mental gymnastics to see how this book is offensive, and even if it was, that does NOT justify violence.