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Terrorist Troubadour Takes Time To Twirl New Twaddle
2006-09-08

'Peace Train' Singer to Release Pop Album
Rare Release for Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens

The idiot artist formerly known as Cat Stevens will release his first pop album in 28 years this fall. Stevens, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam in the late 1970s, has signed with Atlantic Records in conjunction with his Ya Records label, it was announced Thursday. "I feel right about making music and singing about life in this fragile world again," the 58-year-old singer-songwriter said in a statement.
Care to illuminate on what makes this world so "fragile"? Like, maybe, your terrorist Islamic buddies?
"It is important for me to be able to help bridge the cultural gaps others are sometimes frightened to cross."
Like the yawning abyss of a cultural gap that surrounds your death cult?
The album, "An Other Cup," is set for release in November. His last studio album was 1978's "Back to Earth." "Yusuf's new songs are as moving and timeless as the classics that inspired a generation," Atlantic Chairman/CEO Craig Kallman said in a statement. "His spiritual quest is one of the most extraordinary stories of our time - a life journey marked by courage, devotion and transformation."
Which sort of devotion to what kind of beliefs and transformed into exactly what sort of being, he neglected to mention.
The London-born singer had a string of pop hits in the 1960s and '70s including "Here Comes My Baby," "Wild World," "Peace Train " and Moonshadow." After converting to Islam, he changed his name and left the music world.
Not quite permanently enough, however.
His charity, Small Kindness, provides aid to orphans and families in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq, among other regions.
Posted by:Zenster

#9  That's some fine filking there, mcsegeek1. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-08 16:36  

#8  Damn typos....

2nd verse, 2nd to last line s/b:

Hope we make alot more of a bloody mess
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-08 15:42  

#7  Now that I've got some Jihad to do
You say you wanna start something too
And Allah will bless you're leavin'
But Ahmed, I'm grievin'
So if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you have a nice explosive belt to wear
And just remember those virgins oh so fair

Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
IÂ’m, sayinÂ’ goodbye, just before you fly
Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
I'll always remember too that you blew, well

You know I've seen a lot of what Jihad can do
And weÂ’re killinÂ’ off the nasty Jew
Because Allah told us kill the infidel
And send him to Hell
WeÂ’ve got the propaganda, got good press
I hope we a lot more of a bloody mess
Before we saw their heads off they must all confess

Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
IÂ’m, sayinÂ’ goodbye, just before you fly
Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
I'll always remember too that you blew, wellÂ…Â…
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-08 12:30  

#6  Bob & Tom? Whodat?

Another one:

Now that you've thrown away your Koran
You say you wanna start a rock 'n' roll band
And it's breakin' my heart you're leavin'
Baby, I'm grievin'
But if you wanna leave, you become the bad guy
The Koran says apostates have to die
And anyone who quits Islam goes to hell to fry

Oh, baby, baby, it's a Sharia world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a Sharia world
So you better put that burka back on, girl
Posted by: Mike   2006-09-08 11:33  

#5  Nothing quite like riding the wave of publicity to launch a new album . His music was shit before he converted , its even poorer now .. Anyway , shouldnt he be killed by his brothers-in-bullshit for singing to us zionist pig-dogs and living off the trappings of wealth and corruption in a opulent super-state !? :p

Fatwa I say Fatwa !

Heres hoping the 'peace train' smacks straight into his 'wild world' and knocks 10 bells of 'moonshadow' out of him , with 'the first cut being the deepest'
Posted by: MacNails   2006-09-08 10:52  

#4  Mike, your just not right!!! You should write for Bob and Tom. LOL
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-08 10:39  

#3  Having renounced his former work, former fans are unlikely to rebuy this hypocrite's attempt at refunding his retirement.
Posted by: J. D. Lux   2006-09-08 10:38  

#2  We should rewrite the Cat Stevens catalog to reflect his current interests and philosophy. For instance:

Another Saturday night and I ain't got no bodies,
I got some money 'cause Prince Alwed paid,
But how I wish I had a kuffir to behead,
I'm in an awful way.

Or this:

Oh, Im being cheered on by some moonbats, oh, moonbats, oh, moonbats, oh!
They might be infidels but I'm their hero, moonbats, oh, moonbats, oh!

And if I ever lose my hands, shoplift in Ryadh, get caught by The Man,
Oh if I ever lose my hands, oh if.... I won't have to make bombs no more. . . .
Posted by: Mike   2006-09-08 10:09  

#1  I am only too proud to say that as an Armed Forces Radio & Television Services DJ, I boycotted his terr-symp ass the moment he came out and supported the Iranian fatwa on Salman Rushdie. I never played a one of his recordings on air again.... of course, there were only a handful of them anyway, and popwise he was pretty past it by the early 1980ies, but one does what one can.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2006-09-08 09:54  

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