“We are from Allah and to Allah we shall return. I am informing all brave Muslims of the world that the author of The Satanic Verses, a text written, edited, and published against Islam, the Prophet of Islam, and the Qur’an, along with all the editors and publishers aware of its contents, are condemned to death. I call on all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world to kill them without delay, so that no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth. And whoever is killed in this cause will be a martyr, Allah Willing. Meanwhile if someone has access to the author of the book but is incapable of carrying out the execution, he should inform the people so that [Rushdie] is punished for his actions. Rouhollah al-Mousavi al-Khomeini.”
The BBC continues to promote the musical career of a Muslim man who said he would kill Salman Rushdie for blaspheming about Islam.
5 Live interviewed Yusuf Islam [14:15 ish], aka Cat Steven, and rigorously challenged him on his previous statements about Salman Rushdie. LOL…don’t be silly…never going to happen. Nihal expressed delight about him…‘Oh what a guy!’ never mind that Nihal usually has the biggest chip on his shoulder about alleged racism or anything that he thinks is a generalisation which he will challenge with an abrupt put-down more often than not. But a guy who wants to kill people who blaspheme about his ideology? He apparently gets the thumbs up from Nihal. Oh what a guy Nihal is.
Nihal raised the subject of Islam’s statements but did so in a way that managed not to mention ‘killing’, saying only that Islam had not exactly been ‘on the frontfoot on condemning the fatwah‘….we weren’t told what the fatwah commanded….see above….mass murder of anyone involved in production and sale of Rushdie’s book.
Islam denied he agreed with the fatwah and said he had been ‘entrapped’ in the situation and that the media had invented stories about him…he told us that he never said ‘kill Rushdie’….a lie he has used consistently…
I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini—and still don’t.
This was accepted by Nihal and co who then went on their merry way laughing and joking with Islam. Trouble is Islam was lying through his teeth as even the slightest research by Nihal and Co would have shown had they bothered to do it. One can only imagine they just didn’t want to do it…or worse they knew and decided to allow Islam to cover up his Islamic extremist views.
On 21 February 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.”
Two months later, Yusuf Islam appeared on a British television programme, BBC’s Hypotheticals, an occasional broadcast featuring a panel of notable guests to explore a hypothetical situation with moral, ethical and/or political dilemmas. In the episode (“A Satanic Scenario”), Islam had an exchange about the issue with the moderator and Queens Counsel Geoffrey Robertson.[5][6] Islam would later clarify the exchanges as “stupid and offensive jokes” made “in bad taste”, but “part of a well-known British national trait … dry humour on my part.”[1]
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.
The New York Times also reports this statement from the programme: ‘[If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking 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.’
An ideology like communism that builds barbed wire fences to keep people IN tells you all you need to know about it.
Similarly a ‘religion’ that punishes people who wish to leave with DEATH tells you all you need to know about it.
I think the expression is ‘bang to rights’….he should be pursued rigourously over this…but as usual the BBC will brush the past under the carpet, as will, i suspect, will the Police….too busy chasing down keyboard warriors snitched on by Twitter or Facebook…and who killed that guy sent to prison for leaving bacon on the steps of a mosque ? Where was Shami?…Michael Mansfield?….. who i note has turned up at the start of the tower block fire inquiry, ready to stir the waters again, thought he’d retired?..How dare the establishment pursue and jail people for a manufactured crime called hate speech, when Moslems have made it very clear they hate us..as they blow up trains, the underground, buses, drive vehicles at people, stab and shoot them, stop people entering ‘their’ areas with threats of violence and on and on….all excused by among others, the wretched BBC….
There is no excuse whatsoever.
Believing in the preposterous contents of the Koran when it has been inculcated 24/7/365 from birth is bad enough.
Believing as an “adult” of your own volition, beyond all other forms of evil.
Naturally, he lied about it, that’s what the Muzzies do.
C***
To threaten someone with death or call for their death is an offence against the’Offences Against the Persons’ Act 1861 & carries a sentence of up to life imprisonment. When Rushdie was first threatened the British government refused to act against people in Britain who were calling for his death saying that it was not in the public interest. If action had been taken then it would have sent a clear message to all Muslims that this sort of behaviour is not how we do things in Britain & will not be tolerated. This may have had some effect on those Muslims who latter contemplated acts of terrorism, but our inaction instead showed that we were weak. This Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) must be a complete nutter. Why on earth would any sane person want to convert to Islam for God’s sake?
BBC Search ‘Yusuf Islam’ .. this is what your TV License has paid for, whether you want to or not, various interviews and shows promoting ‘Yusuf Islam’ on BBC …
Afternoon Edition: 14/09/2017: Sarah Brett and Nihal Arthanayake meet Yusuf Islam to find out about his new
Robert Elms: With Beverley Knight, Delroy Williams and Yusuf Islam
BBC One Sessions: Yusuf Islam: he artist formerly known as Cat Stevens gives his first full concert in nearly three decades, in this exclusive performance recorded for the BBC at the Porchester Hall, London.
A Little Later: Paul Simon/Yusuf Islam
Singer-Songwriters at the BBC: Series 2: Episode 1
The First Time With…: Yusuf Islam
Something Understood: Inside Out
The One Show: 21/04/2015
Front Row: Cat Stevens, Northern Soul, William Morris, Ken Burns
Simon Mayo Drivetime: Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Jo Whiley: Album Review
In Concert: Cat Stevens
The One Show: 10/12/2009
BBC – Maida Vale at 75
imagine…: Spring 2006: The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens: lan Yentob presents a documentary telling the story of Yusuf Islam
Top of the Pops: Annie Lennox: blues and jazz standards. We also hear from the singer Yusuf Islam, who is better
Later… with Jools Holland: Series 28: Episode 3
Saturday Live: Lulu
Music Week: 15/11/2009
Johnnie Walker’s Long Players: Series 1: Cat Stevens’ ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ and Van Morrison’s ‘Moondance’ : The former broke Yusuf Islam
Outlook: Ebola Nun Helps Save Spanish Nurse: Yusuf Islam – also known as Cat Stevens – was inducted into the Rock & Roll
Simon Mayo: 07/07/2009
Later… with Jools Holland: Series 28
In Concert: 07/07/2007
Later… with Jools Holland: Series 34: Episode 3
Later… with Jools Holland: Series 34 Live: Episode 3
The Documentary: 13/08/2010
Keep on Running: 50 Years of Island Records
Faith and 9/11
BBC – Radio 3 – Late Junction – 6 July 2004
BBC – Radio 1 – Established 1967
Good Morning Sunday: 21/10/2007
– But the BBC fail to report on the renewal in 2016 of the Fatwa for a death bounty on an author that ‘Yusuf Islam’ agreed was right to enact as a Muslim.
– BBC, how can I remove the platform you provide for these people without going to prison?
Marky Mark. Fine piece of exposure of the filth known as the BBC. Well done.
More confirmation, as if any were needed, that the Left never tells the truth. All they are interested in is the acquisition and maintenance of power.
Their agenda is never what they claim it to be and so they are shackled to the path of deceit from the get-go. They never act in good faith and should be challenged on that point at every turn.
Arrogance, resentment and deceit. The three ever-present characteristics of the Left.
Rick Bradford. Rock solid comment.