The Nobel Prize noble no more. You really need to read Bruce Bawer's article today. Not just because The Jawa Report is mentioned. Okay, that would be reason enough. Just go read it.

He adds even more to the controversy surrounding the Nobel invitation to Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) to perform at this year's Peace Prize shindig. Yusuf Islam admits that he supports capital punishment for blasphemers. Some peace train you got there Islam.

Ironically, Yusuf believes that 'the gospels' also call for murdering those that blaspheme. Which is quite absurd. Unless I missed that part about Jesus stoning the blasphemers. Maybe it's somewhere in the back?

The Sun:

There is reason to be dismayed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's anointing of Yusuf. This is, after all, a man who's been denied entry into America and expelled from Israel.

After the publication of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, he was quoted in the New York Times as saying that if Mr. Rushdie came to his door for help, "I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I'd try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is."

A Web site called the Jawa Report claims that Yusuf has performed at fund-raising events for charities with connections to terrorist organizations. On the same Web site you can also read claims that he is an intimate of the Islamist Omar Bakri Mohammed and of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is now serving a life sentence for terrorist activities.

Perhaps the barring of Yusuf from America and his expulsion from Israel were based on misunderstandings; perhaps he was misquoted on Mr. Rushdie, and perhaps the Jawa Report is mistaken.

But Yusuf's own statements on his own Web site are not so easily dismissed. On that Web site he claims that he "never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini," even though he feels that Mr. Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" "destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis."

But then he adds the following: "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."

What does this mean? It means this: Yusuf is not against the idea of Mr. Rushdie being executed for writing a book. He is simply acknowledging that in Britain and other Western countries, the proper Islamic punishments do not apply. Yet.

Hat tip: Glen Jenvey, who is also the guy who grabbed the audio linking Cat Stevens to terrorists.

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1 Yikes! A F-16 went down outside of Baghdad. The rocket scientist at ABC
radio just announced that only the pilot was aboard. Whew...glad he
didn't have passengers hanging on to the wings.

Posted by: Randman at November 27, 2006 10:35 AM (Sal3J)

2 Yusuf Islam can go screw himself.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at November 27, 2006 10:59 AM (vixLB)

3 ... And I support the use of AC130's to cut through Jihad like a hot knife through butter.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at November 27, 2006 11:00 AM (vixLB)

4 When he says this, ""When asked about my opinion regarding blasphemy,..."
he gives a non-answer.  This is not his opinion on blasphemy
itself, but his opinion on how it is, or is not, applied.  If he
answers the question, "Do you support Sharia Law?"  well, then, we
have a real answer.

Posted by: Oyster at November 27, 2006 11:26 AM (SCVhh)

5 like both the Torah and the Gospel

Moral equivalency -- apparently Yusuf has has learned well from his Leftwing patrons.  Is this an example of a "moderate" muslim?

Fortunately he's wrong.  The Torah doesn't call for the death of blasphemers nor heretics, nor did Jesus.  In fact, if you read the prophets, their main job was to bring the people of Israel back to God whenever they fell away from him (which happenned often).  Nowhere did it call for executing hereticss or blasphemers because half of Israel would have been guilty of that! 

Re his comments about the "Gospel", he's obviously not read it.  Jesus was surrounded by blasphemers at all times, and he allowed himself to be nailed to the cross.  That was HIS job.  Jesus came to this earth to be humiliated for our sakes, not exalted (unlike Mohammed).

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at November 27, 2006 11:49 AM (8e/V4)

6 I would always defer to any guy named Jesusland, on this subject.

Posted by: Randman at November 27, 2006 12:36 PM (Sal3J)

7 Last time we discussed this asshole the defenders of everything different called those of us who questioned his loyality ignorant. Not who is ignorant? Hope you same assholes have something to say concerning your previous comments on this subject.

Posted by: Greyrooster at November 27, 2006 01:39 PM (aghaS)

8 You guys are all ignorant son's of behives. Thats all i can say. They say kill you, you say kill them. No difference. Only thing is you hate them more than they hate you.

Posted by: Dumd Whitey at November 27, 2006 01:42 PM (ORzZP)

9 those beliefs are mr. yusuf islam's religion, and you have to respect them.

Posted by: salaam at November 27, 2006 01:51 PM (NzayJ)

10 Got a few muslim excusists on this topic. You bet I hate islam more than they probably hate me but I'm working on the balance.
 
Yusuf Islam has no beliefs of value and nothing to offer the world. Death to this liberal flake......and his music is a load of bollocks too.

Posted by: Jester at November 27, 2006 03:31 PM (iwtIO)

11 You guys are all ignorant son's of behives. Thats all i can say. They
say kill you, you say kill them. No difference. Only thing is you hate
them more than they hate you.



I think we have a winner for todays moronic moral realitivism statement of the day.

Posted by: Randman at November 27, 2006 03:32 PM (Sal3J)

12 Dumd Whitey, you are a moron.  That's all I can say. You casually equate us with the terrorists just because we believe the enemy needs to be killed.   If we really hated them more than they hate us, maybe they'd be given some pause before they decided to torch another school, bus, or embassy.   If they were building schools, buses, greenhouses, and hospitals instead of destroying them we would love them. 

Posted by: George guy at November 27, 2006 03:44 PM (eWkFC)

13 Oyster:


Yusuf said that the koran considers apostasy a capital offense.As a muslim, he does indeed support this barbaric practice, and went on to say that muslim societies should practice it.


He was quite clear on this point, which would make you quite full of crap.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at November 27, 2006 04:06 PM (bLPT+)

14 Comment #9 "you have to respect them" No I don't. The guy's a muslim. The lowest creature on earth. Just like you.

Posted by: Greyrooster at November 27, 2006 05:24 PM (aghaS)

15 Exactly grayrooster, we don't have to respect his religion of hate and death, we don't have to like it, and we don't have to put up with it.  Personally I don't have to hate it either, anymore than I would have to hate a rabid dog to put it down.

Posted by: Buzzy at November 27, 2006 06:26 PM (CXz7T)

16 This is SO not news. I'm feeling a YAWN coming on again...

And *what* kind of newspaper is The Sun, again?

I highly doubt that Yusuf is worried about either the Jawa Report or The Sun. I wouldn't be, if I were him.

He may have been wrong about the Gospels, but I think the point he was trying to make was that blasphemy is not entirely an alien concept.

Anyway... I thinks he's moved on.. which maybe we should do.

Posted by: LD at November 27, 2006 06:48 PM (cCiqp)

17 http://www.stazzz.net/shemales.php shemales pictures

Posted by: shemales pictures at November 27, 2006 06:56 PM (I7rOd)

18 Yes, I understand. But still, isn't this old news? I don't see anything new about it.

Posted by: LD at November 27, 2006 07:01 PM (cCiqp)

19 Yes, I understand. But still, isn't this old news? I don't see anything new about it.

[reposted to follow Jesusland's -- which somehow ended up *below* my initial post]

Posted by: LD at November 27, 2006 07:14 PM (cCiqp)

20 I still say it's OLD NEWS. OK, I see some people still need to have the last word. Whatever.
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Posted by: LD at November 27, 2006 07:18 PM (cCiqp)

21 I think the point he was trying to make was that blasphemy is not entirely an alien concept.

The point WE'RE making is that executing people for blasphemy IS an alien concept and has no place in western society regardless of whether Yusuf says it"s in the Bible (it isn't).

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at November 27, 2006 07:54 PM (yJKSD)

22 "I'm bein' followed by a cruise missile,
Cruise missile, cruise missle..."

Posted by: mojo at November 27, 2006 09:10 PM (v3Oz/)

23 LD (little dick, leftist dork,)



The Sun is the kind of paper that doesn't print absolute bullshit. If it did, it would be the Times.


Cat-shit Stevens meant to let dhimmies know that islam was irrevocable, and that leaving it was a death sentence.


He can never move on because he's a muslim. He's stuck in the seventh century under pain of death.



The only old news I see is assholes like you apologizing for the crimes of islam. Thanks for supporting gang rape, clitoral mutilation, and the slavery of women, scumbag. I hope the next person who escapes the straightjacket of islam kicks your faggoty ass.

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at November 27, 2006 09:53 PM (bLPT+)

24 I don't know why you've suddenly decided I'm one of your punching bags,
Jeff, but your constant foul-mouthed attacks on me and others are
completely unnecessary.  If you have a point, make it. 
Slinging invectives at those around you doesn't serve your argument
well.



My point was that he needs to answer the question more succinctly
rather than just associatively.  I'm sorry you missed that. 
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough.

Posted by: Oyster at November 28, 2006 07:18 AM (YudAC)

25 Oyster:


Stevens did answer the question directly.


As far as my use of the word "crap" goes, welcome to the real word. I wouldn't want to use a naughty word like "crap" around someone with a nice, repectable screen name like "Oyster," now would I?

Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at November 28, 2006 09:14 PM (bLPT+)

26 Here's a Muslim to you. BOOOOOOOOOOOO! I can imagine how you all fill your pants right now. Now go vandalise a Muslim grave, throw a stone at a mosque or something, in order to heal your demented fear of otherness.

Posted by: Muslim at December 02, 2006 01:59 PM (l73rN)

27 Here is a proof that Bible orders killing of blasphemers (source www.biblegateway.com):

"Leviticus 24:16 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)

16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death."



There you have it. And won't even start on what Jews are supposed to do to non-believers.

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