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Cat Stevens: Terrorist

"Yusuf Islam" has supposedly been using his money to fund questionable causes in the Middle East. I'm glad they put him on the list, and on the next flight out.

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Watch-List Passenger ID'd as Cat Stevens Tuesday, September 21, 2004 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133095,00.html WASHINGTON (AP) � A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam -- formerly known as singer Cat Stevens (search) -- was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, two federal officials said. United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport (search) when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration. The plane was met by federal agents at Maine's Bangor International Airport (search) around 3 p.m., Melendez said. The two federal officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, identified the passenger as Islam. They said Islam was denied entry on national security grounds, but had no details about why the peace activist might be considered a risk to the United States. One official said Islam, 56, was identified by the Advanced Passenger Information System, which requires airlines to send passenger information to Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center. The Transportation Security Administration then was contacted and requested that the plane land at the nearest airport, that official said. The second official, who is in law enforcement and spoke anonymously because of agency policy, said Islam was questioned by FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. After the interview, Customs officials decided to deny Islam entry into the United States. He was expected to be returned early Wednesday to London, the official said. Islam, who was born Stephen Georgiou, took Cat Stevens as a stage name and had a string of hits in the 1960s and '70s, including "Wild World" and "Morning Has Broken." Last year he released two songs, including a re-recording of his '70s hit "Peace Train," to express his opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. He abandoned his music career in the late 1970s and changed his name after being persuaded by orthodox Muslim teachers that his lifestyle was forbidden by Islamic law. He later became a teacher and an advocate for his religion, founding a Muslim school in London in 1983. He has criticized terrorist acts by Muslims, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the school seizure in Beslan, Russia, earlier this month that left more than 300 dead, nearly half of them children. In a statement on his Web site, he wrote, "Crimes against innocent bystanders taken hostage in any circumstance have no foundation whatsoever in the life of Islam and the model example of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him." After the Sept. 11 attacks, Islam issued a statement saying: "No right thinking follower of Islam could possibly condone such an action: The Quran equates the murder of one innocent person with the murder of the whole of humanity."

The man can't get any respect.

whats next Mr. Rogers visa is denied for suspicous conversations with a Lady Elaine Fairchilde welcome to bush's hysteria on terrorism

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"Customs officials decided to deny Islam entry into the United States."

Imagine my disappointment when I learned that officials had detained Yusuf Islam, and not the whole damn religion.

guys give him a break , all this just because he's muslim now

Wow, what a country we have become, is Yusuf Islam a member of a terrorist group or funding them that I wasn't aware of. I was him I would stay far away before they detain him and throw him in Guantanamo forever

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Originally posted by imokruok Imagine my disappointment when I learned that officials had detained Yusuf Islam, and not the whole damn religion.

Then they should arrest Mr. Bush and his father, alongside friends, for having Business ties with the Bin Ladens and other royal family's that have may have helped financed and helped Bin Laden .. so whats the point?!?!

Hear this one.

I had an Australian friend (yes as in non Muslim-Ozzie!) detained and deported despite having allt he legal and necessary paperwork to enter the USA, because some guy at immigration had a suspicion that he was working in the USA when he came into the USA from Mexico after springbreak.

Of course, we all believe that this is all Bush's fault and that if it was not for his specific meddling my friend would have enjoyed the remaidner of his nice vacation.

All because they think he joined a "work" program

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Originally posted by igottaknow wants next Mr. Rogers visa is denied for suspicous conversations with a Lady Elaine Fairchilde welcome bush's hysteria on terrorism

Mr. Rogers is dead.

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Originally posted by Shakka Mr. Rogers is dead.

Or is he? I think it was a cleaverly designed terrorist plot to fake his own death and strike when we least expect.

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Originally posted by igottaknow Or is he? I think it was a cleaverly designed terrorist plot to fake his own death and strike when we least expect.

LOL Stomach cancer's a bitch!

Mr. Rogers' Biography

Mr. Rogers is out of the loop. The liberals have infested Sesame Street and they're pumping impressionable young minds full of leftist tripe.

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Originally posted by imokruok Imagine my disappointment when I learned that officials had detained Yusuf Islam, and not the whole damn religion.

I was wondering myself lately on why the media or people in general do not use titles when using someone's name. Like Mr. Bush or Mr. Islam. Has the world gone illiterate in not using proper nouns?

One other thing that I forgot to mention. Countries like Iraq/Iran/Israel all have a common thread. That thread is theocracy. In those countries that practice this anyone who is not of that religion is segregated in one form or another on the least. On the other range of the spectrum is death. The issue to me is that I can't live in any of those countries unless I convert. Without conversion I will have trouble living there.

But mention once that americans want to expel any muslims right away they scream out that their rights were violated. Even though my rights would be violated in a muslim country as a non-muslim.

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Originally posted by NYCTrancefan Wow, what a country we have become, is Yusuf Islam a member of a terrorist group or funding them that I wasn't aware of. I was him I would stay far away before they detain him and throw him in Guantanamo forever

As a member of Islamic society and a former popular musician, this man has the power to heal wounds but chooses to act the "Why me?" syndrome out on TV. What a waste of a 15 minute soundbite.

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Originally posted by LiquidX Then they should arrest Mr. Bush and his father, alongside friends, for having Business ties with the Bin Ladens and other royal family's that have may have helped financed and helped Bin Laden .. so whats the point?!?!

Dan Rather gets the third degree over bad information. George Dubya gets to stay in the White House after bad information.

And people forget about the lives lost in Iraq over the bad information. No lives where lost in Dan Rather's report. People will eat the swill.

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 And people forget about the lives lost in Iraq over the bad information. No lives where lost in Dan Rather's report. People will eat the swill.

Its too early to tell. This single issue could decide this election.
Guess how many more lives will be lost if Kerry gets elected. Or if you swing the other way (which something tells me you do) Bush gets re-elected. Countless lives will be lost becuase the press messed up.


So there

Well now that we've caught and threw out that elusive bastard terrorist, Cat Stevens, who's next?:

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Originally posted by MisterOpus1 Well now that we've caught and threw out that elusive bastard terrorist, Cat Stevens, who's next?:

Is that THE singing nun from Airplane!? It's a real toss-up between her and Britney.

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Originally posted by Yoepus Its too early to tell. This single issue could decide this election. Guess how many more lives will be lost if Kerry gets elected. Or if you swing the other way (which something tells me you do) Bush gets re-elected. Countless lives will be lost becuase the press messed up. So there

Keep blaming Dan Rather and forget that the reason the US got into Iraq was over bad intelligence over weapons of mass destruction.

I won't "swing" in any way since all the candidates can't speak for themselves.

Israeli Intel given to US link here

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It was a bit stunning, therefore, to read an article in Strategic Assessment, the quarterly bulletin issued by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. The report, titled �The War in Iraq: An Intelligence Failure?� was written by Shlomo Brom, a brigadier general in the Israeli army reserves, and said what no one seems to have dared publish since President George W. Bush decided to wage war on Iraq. Shockingly, it told the full truth about the American and British intelligence �sources� making the case for war. In fact, according to Brom, these sources were utterly compromised by Israeli intelligence, which made the case for starting the war and kept it going as long as necessary. The retired general described Israel as a �full partner� in U.S. and British intelligence failures that exaggerated Iraqi President Saddam Hussain�s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs in the lead up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 Keep blaming Dan Rather and forget that the reason the US got into Iraq was over bad intelligence over weapons of mass destruction. I won't "swing" in any way since all the candidates can't speak for themselves. Israeli Intel given to US link here

Amnesia is a scary thing, the War for Weapons of Mass Destruction became the War for Freedom and Democracy and now the War on Terror with Iraq being the Central front in the War on Terror. Anyone notice a trend here, what was the war about again.

Politics is truly sad, tell the populace anything, question their patriotism, keep them afraid through fearmongering and you got some votes. I'm intrigued to know if a draft was instituted how many would be so quick to scream about War in Iraq when it is not your blood that is being shed unless you have a family member over there. Nothing will convince me that this War was justified based on what I know. A pack of lies, shabby intelligence and Neo-Con stupidity led us down a path of no return which they choose to call "steadfastness."

Quiet.

No thinking allowed.


Seriously though, what is more scarier than that is mass hysteria.

In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus

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