re: #202 SanFranciscoZionist

At a lecture, back in 1989, I was asked a question about blasphemy according to Islamic Law, I simply repeated the legal view according to my limited knowledge of the Scriptural texts, based directly on historical commentaries of the Qur’an. The next day the newspaper headlines read, “Cat Says, Kill Rushdie.” I was abhorred, but what could I do? I was a new Muslim. If you ask a Bible student to quote the legal punishment of a person who commits blasphemy in the Bible, he would be dishonest if he didn’t mention Leviticus 24:16.

Shrug. It’s a cop-out excuse, you ask me, but I also know that people who will completely dismiss the whole rally over Cat Freakin’ Stevens, would completely accept that cop-out excuse coming from a Tea Party Christian.

Personally, I will settle for, “Cat Stevens is not my favorite person, based on some of his shit about Israel” and leave it at that.

You are one kind and forgiving person.

Yusuf has never really apologized for the Toronto, Canada debacle- other than to laugh it off. When pressed he said, “Me? Support terror? No way!”

Save for those pesky associations with groups long linked to terror.