From LGF [1], we heard of a 1989 vid of Cat Stevens talking about Salman Rushdie:
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.”
Wild World, ain’t it?
You know, he showed, during his musical career, occasional flashes of brilliance. It was the dearth of brilliance between those flashes that made me consider his career to be a waste of talent. At the moment, I consider his life to be a waste of skin.