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Cat Stevens is my dad's age and I never did ask him if he was a fan of his music. He never mentioned CS while I was growing up. Doing a little research on this
by BuckRogers 9y ago
Cat Stevens is my dad's age and I never did ask him if he was a fan of his music. He never mentioned CS while I was growing up. Doing a little research on this guy, now combined with your video is not favorable. He claimed that he wanted a secular speaker to die for disrespecting the prophet Muhammad. There's a 2015 interview where he remains unapologetic. I hope his comeback is a failure because publicly calling for someone's murder and sticking to it for 25 years is pathetic.
I have many Muslim friends, many of whom were some of the best friends I've ever had in my life. They trust and respect me enough that they consider me one of them, so they were open with me. Given conversations with them I've had in the past, they weren't as dogmatic as Cat Stevens is. And they were born and raised in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps it's because they really know Islam (most of them are still believers) thus not as naive as a foreigner like Stevens.
- rev_bird 9y agoI can't tell what you're trying to say -- is it that you're against the commercial success of Stevens because of the fatwa? What does it matter that your dad has no opinion of him, or that you have Muslim friends?
- BuckRogers 9y agoIt's pretty self-explanatory. Reading comprehension is important because not everything you read is going to be a pithy simple point. To paraphrase. I'm saying I never knew who this guy was, checked into him without any bias and he's a terrible man. Even compared him to born and raised Muslim friends who are from the most extreme Islamic nation. I have tight friendships with them so they've spoken very openly to me in private, and it's Cat Stevens who makes Muslims look bad.