Are right wing heads exploding today?

[EC]

Cat Stevens in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!!

[Faux pas]

1. Love Cat Stevens!

Good for him.

[PDJane]

2. Great news! Cat Stevens is an accomplished musician...

[DetlefK]

3. Stupid question. IT'S TUESDAY!

Their heads are exploding over something all the time.

[n2doc]

4. You mean Yusuf Islam?

Gotta use his current name for full effect!

[FrodosPet]

5. Unfortunately he is not athiest, so he is filled with hatred and rigid ways of thinking

Why are we speaking positively of him here on DU?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=673943

[tk2kewl]

6. Peace Train

among others

[Ikonoklast]

30. His own words make a mockery of his song.

On February 21, 1989, Yusuf Islam addressed students at Kingston University in London about his conversion to Islam and was asked about the controversy in the Muslim world and the fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie's execution. He replied, "He must be killed. The Qur'an makes it clear - if someone defames the prophet, then he must die."

Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?
Y. Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Robertson: Yes.
Y. Islam: Yes, yes.
Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?
Y. Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
[Some minutes later, Robertson on the subject of a protest where an effigy of the author is to be burned]
Robertson: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Y. Islam: I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens'_comments_about_Salman_Rushdie


Of course, Islam says that all of this was just misunderstood, a joke. Funny guy.

Sounds like your typical right-wing asshat excuse to me.

[EC]

7. huh?

your point?

[FrodosPet]

11. My point is that some people here are just as bigoted against religion

As some others who are bigoted against non-believers and followers of other faiths.

I personally have respect for him. I loved his music growing up, and I see nothing he has done worthy of disrespect.

But he follows an Abrahamic religion. And there are several people whose blanket condemnation of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism means that they have no choice but to disrespect him for following a sky daddy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Why do you say he is "filled with hatred"? (Quoting your unqualified statement)

[FrodosPet]

27. Gotta start work in a few, otherwise I would post many examples

Of blanket anti-religious bigotry all over this site.

[brucefan]

28. We'll be waiting

Hurry up!

[FrodosPet]

31. OK, but work comes first

Too many people rely on me

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. You said Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) is filled with hatred.

Your post, #5:

Unfortunately he is not athiest, so he is filled with hatred and rigid ways of thinking Why are we speaking positively of him

[FrodosPet]

33. Sarcasm

Poe's law strikes again!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. When using living people as a foil, if you respect them the slightest, it is

When dealing with actual living people, if you respect them the slightest, it is probably best to adopt Wikipedia's policy and be very very careful with statements about them or around them. It is best to be really clear if you intend to merely use them as a foil to make sarcastic points about someone else or some other group.

I suspected sarcasm might be involved, but I couldn't be sure, so I laid bare the issue so that it could be clearly resolved.

Even if you have no respect for a person, probably best to be very clear if one going to be sarcastic about them, or to use them for sarcastic purposes. The latest example of that is Rob Ford having to make yet another public retraction and apology to a reporter he sarcastically or maliciously (probably the latter) all but called a pedophile. The reporter asked him for an apology and when it was not forthcoming he filed legal papers of his intention to sue Ford. Ford saw the light suddenly and changed his course 180 degrees.

In the final analysis I agree with your point about how too many people (even on DU) tar all christians and/or muslims with one brush. I agree with you that there are many of both faiths who are actively trying and often succeeding to hold to the real and best intentions of the faith with regard to their interaction with the world.

[cyberswede]

8. Because Tea for the Tillerman was a brilliant album?

[underpants]

14. But Knights In Satan's Service are also going into the Hall

When I was a kid the rumor was that that is what KISS "really meant". It was probably originated by Gene Simmons.

[FrodosPet]

16. KISS! We love to hate them, and we hate to love them

They were shamelessly commercial sellouts, average at best as far as "musical talent" goes. And Gene Simmons is a misogynist RW tool.

But when "Detroit Rock City" comes on - the air guitar comes right out!

[riqster]

19. I heard him speaking once, on marketing...

He said at that time that they took it from Colonel Sanders' maxim: "Keep It Simple, Stupid".

Fits with everything they ever did, musically or otherwise. I believe his story.

[WilliamPitt]

25. Ow. My brain.

[zappaman]

9. I love HAROLD AND MAUDE

and cannot imagine that movie without his songs.
Well deserved.

[beac]

12. Jinx!

(see my simultaneous post below yours!)

[zappaman]

13. Ha! n/t

[beac]

10. Aren't they exploding EVERY day?

Detonating small-brained craniums aside, I'm glad he's going in. (see my sig line quote from 'Harold & Maude', the movie w/an all-Cat Stevens* soundtrack.)


*he was still Cat at the time of the movie's release

[Scuba]

15. ...

[damnedifIknow]

17. Can't help but feel good after this

[Bluenorthwest]

18. He deserves it many times over.

nt

[jberryhill]

20. The Roadsinger album is pretty good

A lot of people like his old stuff and haven't given a listen to his newer stuff.

Roadsinger is something of a return to what people liked about his old stuff.

I find this one in particular to be inspirational:

Be you dust, or be you star
To be what you must just reach out for what you are
And though you travel many roads
There's but one way and that's the one you chose

[calimary]

21. Probably not. Sure wish they would be.

[Nitram]

22. Didn't Cat Stevens support Iran's fatwa...

...against Salman Rushdie? I know he denies that he meant to suggest he supported the fatwa, but when asked about the fatwa, he explained the punishment for blasphemy instead of supporting Rushdie's freedom of speech..

[catbyte]

26. Yeah, unfortunately he did.

[SCVDem]

23. Get on the train

Now who can forget this?

Has it been that long?

[skydive forever]

29. I can't forget it

I was there carrying my "TEA PARTIES ARE FOR LITTLE GIRLS" sign. What a day it was.

[spanone]

34. Yusuf Islam

[Behind the Aegis]

36. I would think this would do it...