September 21, 2004

Passenger ID'd as Cat Stevens

A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam — formerly known as singer Cat Stevens — was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said.

Oh, baby! It is a wild world!
I'm guessing that we've gotten intell from some of the AQ bad boys we've been rounding up around the world that Stevens/Islam is the "front man" for an Islamist terrorist organization.
After converting to Islam, Cat/Yusuf stopped making or even selling records because his music was "un-Islamic."
Curiously, however, in the last year or 2, they became available again on the market.
(True Confession Time: Like an idiot, I bought the whole "Tea for the Tillerman" download on iTunes because I've loved that album for over 30 years.)
What I'm afraid of is that the IslamoFascist Enemy is using Yusuf Islam's music sales and concerts to proselytize (Can you say "Johnny Jihads welcome?") and to raise money to kill more of us in jihad attacks and I'm fairly sure we have hard evidence to prove it or tonight's incident wouldn't have happened and he wouldn't have been denied entry to the U.S.
Please, my friends, resist and don't buy his tunes!
And I'll continue to feel bad about my part in it: I should have known better.