Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Morning Has Broken....
American enemy, Cat Stevens
Former pop star Cat Stevens has been denied entry into the US.
Stevens changed his name years ago to Yusuf Islam. His name appeared on a watch list designed to keep terrorists or their supporters out of the US. According to officials Islam was on the watch list because of alleged associations and financial support for Muslim charities (reportedly Hamas, specifically).
Islam's website includes numerous statements condemning the September 11 attacks and the recent attacks against a school in Beslan, Russia. Islam also donated a portion of his royalties from a four disc set to the September 11th Fund for the families of 9/11 victims.
So apparently we can allow members of the Saudi royal family into the US...whose members have given huge sums of money to Al Qaida, but we can't let Islam in because he gave money to Muslim charities who help the Palestinians and have nothing to do with harming the US.
Brilliant.
Bush's team is probably baffled by the fact that Arab Americans are deciding to vote for Kerry.
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Former pop star Cat Stevens has been denied entry into the US.
Stevens changed his name years ago to Yusuf Islam. His name appeared on a watch list designed to keep terrorists or their supporters out of the US. According to officials Islam was on the watch list because of alleged associations and financial support for Muslim charities (reportedly Hamas, specifically).
Islam's website includes numerous statements condemning the September 11 attacks and the recent attacks against a school in Beslan, Russia. Islam also donated a portion of his royalties from a four disc set to the September 11th Fund for the families of 9/11 victims.
So apparently we can allow members of the Saudi royal family into the US...whose members have given huge sums of money to Al Qaida, but we can't let Islam in because he gave money to Muslim charities who help the Palestinians and have nothing to do with harming the US.
Brilliant.
Bush's team is probably baffled by the fact that Arab Americans are deciding to vote for Kerry.
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