Video: Cat Stevens Wishes for Salman Rushdie’s Death by Fire

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Sat Jun 23, 2007 at 2:43 pm PDT • Views: 1,414

Here’s a rare video of former pop star turned Islamist Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam, aka Yusuf) on British TV in 1989 discussing Salman Rushdie; when asked if he’d go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of Rushdie, Yusuf Islam replies, “I would have hoped that it would be the real thing.”

(Hat tip: Killgore.)

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