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-RetweetVideo: Cat Stevens Wishes for Salman Rushdie's Death by Fire

Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 2:43:13 pm PDT

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.”

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(Hat tip: Killgore.)

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