Cat Stevens Not Allowed into US
The US authorities say the decision was made on national security grounds.
Mr Islam was on a flight from London to Washington when officials realised his name was on a "watch list". The plane was diverted to another US airport.
Muslim groups in Britain and the United States have criticised the decision, saying Mr Islam is a man of peace.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement that the move "sends the disturbing message that even moderate and mainstream Muslims will now be treated like terrorists".
[More: BBC]
Now this is real bullshit...
This guy has been singing and working for peace for ages even before he became a muslim, and he hasn't missed a chance without condemning terrorism, and now he's on a terrorist watch list?
What the hell are these people thinking?!
i read somewhere on the internet that it was all caused by a spelling error.
Posted by: Daan at September 26, 2004 03:54 PMMan of peace? gimme a break, he resurfaced in the News in 1989 for supporting the Ayatollah's death sentence against Salman Rushdie (this caused the band 10,000 Maniacs to remove their remake of a Cat Stevens track from one of their albums).
The U.S. is the not 1st Country to have kicked him out either, he also got kicked out of Israel before then (the Israelis kicked him up for giving money to Hamas, good reason to put someone on a Terrorism watchlist).
Posted by: Ryan McReynolds at June 23, 2007 10:24 PM