Cat Stevens - Revision history

Dataclarifier: linked vigilante

2019-08-27T15:01:15Z

linked vigilante

DavidB4-bot: /* Return to Music */Spelling, Grammar, and General Cleanup, typos fixed: ever increasing → ever-increasing

2017-03-06T20:52:43Z

Return to Music: Spelling, Grammar, and General Cleanup, typos fixed: ever increasing → ever-increasing

DavidB4-bot: /* Return to Music */clean up & uniformity

2016-07-12T00:30:26Z

Return to Music: clean up & uniformity

Canuck: categorize

2008-11-14T04:45:00Z

categorize

JeanJacques at 02:55, November 12, 2008

2008-11-12T02:55:51Z

HelpJazz: wikilink and cap

2008-11-11T22:03:28Z

wikilink and cap

JeanJacques: just because someone is muslim, does not make them evil. lies are not Christian.

2008-11-11T21:55:39Z

just because someone is muslim, does not make them evil. lies are not Christian.

IkeL at 21:01, November 11, 2008

2008-11-11T21:01:48Z

RKLuffy88: Canged Wahhabi link

2008-10-01T01:24:41Z

Canged Wahhabi link

Dadsnagem2: miscategorization; no liberal activism is cited

2008-02-22T18:11:40Z

miscategorization; no liberal activism is cited

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 In the late 1970s, Stevens converted to [[Islam]] after a long spiritual discovery through not only Christianity but also Buddhism, paganism, and even "new age".  After his conversion, he stopped performing popular music and only sung in prayer or praise of God. Stevens is known to have donated money to Muslim schools in London, and later founded ''Small Kindness'' which provides food for starving children in [[Indonesia]] and [[Africa]].
-Yusuf Islam is a champion for peace, and has come out in strong condemnation of the vigilante justice common in modern Middle Eastern Islam.  He has made public statements that the Qu'ran forbids violence against another human for any reason.  After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11 attacks]], he made a statement saying that them men who attacked the [[World Trade Center]], the 4 planes and the pentagon cannot be true Muslims, because violence is never an acceptable answer.
+Yusuf Islam is a champion for peace, and has come out in strong condemnation of the [[vigilante]] justice common in modern Middle Eastern Islam.  He has made public statements that the Qu'ran forbids violence against another human for any reason.  After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11 attacks]], he made a statement saying that them men who attacked the [[World Trade Center]], the 4 planes and the pentagon cannot be true Muslims, because violence is never an acceptable answer.
 In 2002, Islam was denied entry into the United States because his named showed up on a no-fly list which prohibits the people listed from traveling by air into the United States. However, it was eventually determined that the Yusuf Islam in question was probably somebody else and he was eventually let in after a brief legal battle.

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 ==Return to Music==
-Yusuf Islam believed that the only acceptable music for Islam was voice and drums.  He recorded several albums of praise of God, as well as praise of nature and the world at large using only voice and drum.  Over the years, through his ever increasing depth of understanding of Islam, Yusuf Islam has decided to return to English to sing, and to use other instruments besides just drum and voice.
+Yusuf Islam believed that the only acceptable music for Islam was voice and drums.  He recorded several albums of praise of God, as well as praise of nature and the world at large using only voice and drum.  Over the years, through his ever-increasing depth of understanding of Islam, Yusuf Islam has decided to return to English to sing, and to use other instruments besides just drum and voice.
 [[Category:Male Singers]][[Category:Muslims]]
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 ==Return to Music==
 Yusuf Islam believed that the only acceptable music for Islam was voice and drums.  He recorded several albums of praise of God, as well as praise of nature and the world at large using only voice and drum.  Over the years, through his ever increasing depth of understanding of Islam, Yusuf Islam has decided to return to English to sing, and to use other instruments besides just drum and voice.
-[[Category: Male Singers]][[Category: Muslims]]
+[[Category:Male Singers]][[Category:Muslims]]
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Cat}}

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 ==Return to Music==
 Yusuf Islam believed that the only acceptable music for Islam was voice and drums.  He recorded several albums of praise of God, as well as praise of nature and the world at large using only voice and drum.  Over the years, through his ever increasing depth of understanding of Islam, Yusuf Islam has decided to return to English to sing, and to use other instruments besides just drum and voice.
-[[Category: Singers]]
+[[Category: Male Singers]][[Category: Muslims]]
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Stevens, Cat}}

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 '''Yusuf Islam''', better known as '''Cat Stevens''' (born '''Steven Georgiou''' in [[London]], 1948), is a British folk rock singer, who was most popular in the 1970s.  His most famous song from his folk era was the Christian hymn like song, ''Morning has Broken''.
-In the late 1970s, Stevens converted to [[Islam]] after a long spiritual discovery through not only Christianity by Buddhism, paganism, and even "new age".  After his conversion, he stopped performing popular music and only sung in prayer or praise of God. Stevens is known to have donated money to Muslim schools in London, and later founded ''Small Kindness'' which provides food for starving children in [[Indonesia]] and [[Africa]].
+In the late 1970s, Stevens converted to [[Islam]] after a long spiritual discovery through not only Christianity but also Buddhism, paganism, and even "new age".  After his conversion, he stopped performing popular music and only sung in prayer or praise of God. Stevens is known to have donated money to Muslim schools in London, and later founded ''Small Kindness'' which provides food for starving children in [[Indonesia]] and [[Africa]].
 Yusuf Islam is a champion for peace, and has come out in strong condemnation of the vigilante justice common in modern Middle Eastern Islam.  He has made public statements that the Qu'ran forbids violence against another human for any reason.  After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks|9/11 attacks]], he made a statement saying that them men who attacked the [[World Trade Center]], the 4 planes and the pentagon cannot be true Muslims, because violence is never an acceptable answer.

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 '''Yusuf Islam''', better known as '''Cat Stevens''' (born '''Steven Georgiou''' in [[London]], 1948), is a British folk rock singer, who was most popular in the 1970s.
-In the late 1970s, Stevens converted to [[Islam]] (specifically the radical [[Wahhabi]] sect, which led to [[Al-Qaeda]]'s creation), and stopped performing music until recently, because Wahhabi Islam prohibits music. Stevens is known to have donated money to some Islamic terrorist groups. For those reasons, he is banned from [[Israel]].
+In the late 1970s, Stevens converted to [[Islam]] (specifically the radical [[Wahhabism|Wahhabi]] sect, which led to [[Al-Qaeda]]'s creation), and stopped performing music until recently, because Wahhabi Islam prohibits music. Stevens is known to have donated money to some Islamic terrorist groups. For those reasons, he is banned from [[Israel]].
 In 2002, Islam was placed on a no-fly list which prohibits the people listed from traveling by air into the United States. The reason was probably his donations to Islamic terror groups and his anti-Israel stance.

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