From John Miller at NRO’s The Corner:
The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens  and now known as Yusuf Islam  will perform at one of Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts. Click here for more info, including links to a video in which Mr. Peace Train expresses his desire for Salman Rushdie to burn at the stake, plus his connections to Hamas.
This kind of thing strikes me as a bit unfair: sure, Stevens/Islam may hold views regarding who gets to live that by western standards are, shall we say, heterodoxical.
But does that mean he can’t wish Salman Rushdie is burned at the stake in a way that is both ecologically sound and carbon conscious? — or that, when in the future Hamas blows up Israeli school children or teenagers at pizza parlors, it is able to do so in a world that isn’t contaminated by mankind’s blinkered and vile contribution the Greenhouse Effect?
Please. Let’s do get our priorities straight, Mr Miller. Mr Stevens/Islam and Mr Gore obviously have.
Well, the difference between Cat Stevens and Ann Coulter is that Cat Stevens is a private citizen.
It would make me nervous to be followed by a moonshadow, I can tell you.
If Mr. Rushdie were dead, then think of all those trees which wouldn’t need to be cut down to produce the paper for his books. So you see, it all makes sense.
Yusuf Islam at Live Earth?
MORNING HAS BROKEN!
I believe it’s past lunch. Time for some tea for the tillerman.
Maybe they could boot ticket sales with Lenny Kravitz on the bill. I hear he’s available.
From the Rio Live Earth concert story linked by Pablo:
Proceeds from the other concerts will go toward the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit organization chaired by Gore.
Protection? I picture Al Gore in sunglasses and a pinstriped suit: “That’s a nice climate you got there… It’d be a shame if anything was to happen to it… say, mysteriously burn down or something. Of course, I could keep that from happening with a small donation…”
oh baby baby its an antropoligical warming world
wouldn’t want nothing to happen (if you disrespect allah the allmighty with your infidel free speech) to your child, girl…
btw – will women be required to leave the arena when the mighty cat strarts a-plinka-plunka on the geetar? Sharia and all, y’know
Further proof that when it comes to organizing near-simultaneous, globe-spanning concert spectacles, Bob Geldof is the man.
I’m being followed by a moon shadow, moon shadow moon … Oh fuck, he’s got a bomb!
OTT,
What would Cat do if the girls in the audience started throwing panties at him? Hmmm, strike a blow against Islam girls, go to the concert and throw your panties at cat. “Come on Baby (Shift That Log)”
Where is it written that Islamic extremists can’t care about the environment? Every head that gets cut off is a carbon footprint that won’t be made.
YES! From now on, all schrapnel bombs shall include plant and tree seeds mixed in with the nails and broken glass. Additionaly, all victims if said bombs will have a life sustaining tree (species to vary according to geographic region) planted on their gravesite. Recorded kills may be traded on any futures/options exchange as carbon credits – remember, its only a 60 percent of a contract if you kill a darkie.
Cat’s music is shittier than ten plugged toilets. Hand me a heavy piece of pipe and a ninepence and gladly I’ll hand-conk that dress-wearing idiot until he’s helpless. He’s a smelly nuisance, if you’re asking me.
I found it amusing that for whatever reason, Gore Co. thought a radical american muslim would increase German ticket sales for this concert/travesty.
Even Germans aren’t fooled by that one.
Also, points to the poster above me, both for naming himself “thor” and for his use of the term “hand-conk”, which made me laugh for an entire minute.
Cat’s a Brit. Or at least i thought he was, until I found myself looking at the photo of Mr. Goldstein to the right and thinking of this.
Now, I just don’t know anymore.
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