The former Cat Stevens performs song for Gaza

We need a "two state" solution former President Jimmy Carter said on NBC's "Today Show" this morning.  He represents the "Carter Center" which works toward peaceful solutions to problems affecting many different peoples, "river blindness" in Africa, etc. so I voted this one up.

Mr. Islam was not only barred from entering Israel, but also from entering the U.S., an outrageous move that was never explained satisfactorily.

However, he was not "alleged" to have supported the fatwa against Mr. Rushdie, he did support it. Then years later, after consumers voiced their anger and boycotted his records, Mr. Islam pulled a flip-flop.

This is a bold and generous move and I support the effort. Raising money to help re-build Gaza and help refugees is a noble gesture.

But Mr. Islam is an odd fish--a Greek in Britain who left the Christian faith and embraced Islam at a moment in history when his fellow Greeks faced slaughter in Cyprus by the Turks. I've never been able to figure out his reasoning.

Recently I saw a greatest hits compilation cd by Cat Stevens at J&R Music World in NYC marked down to only $6.99. It had all the songs I liked.

But I simply couldn't bring myself to buy it...

Any one want to buy my Cat Stevens albums? They are causing an aweful smell in my attic.

Oh, yeah. Send more money to Hamas so they can use it to buy more bombs and rockets. Give them more money so they can indoctrinate their children to hate Jews, to hate Americans, to hate non-Muslims. The only peace that Islam believes in is a sharp stick with a dead non-Muslim dangling from it.

Children do not ask to be displaced from their homes, maimed, and killed by war. Children are among the greatest tragedies of war. How can anyone object to Yusaf Islam or anyone else doing a benefit for the sake of children? I think I'll put some cat Stevens on my Ipod and enjoy his creative writings and soothing voice. Maybe someday we can all sing, "Morning has Broken" with new understanding of cooperation and tolerance for each other.

I'd rather buy Peace Train than some RAP CRAP by Young Jeezy--then you know the money is going back to the hood to kill some little kid bystander in a drive buy.

this moron should be burned at the stake .

I never was a Cat Stevens fan. Not because of his faith, I just didn't care for his music.

What's up with showing us your left hand??? I thought that was taboo???

He also professes to live a frugal life.... that's an expensive guitar hanging off that shoulder...

Here it is however many many years since "Cat" changed his name and all the media can do is pull a Prince.

I was told the boxer Mohammad Ali got quite an international name for himself after America dumped bad infant formula on the world. Ali invested in good infant formula and it was marketed with his face on it to reassure people it was not the "bad American" formula. He became the most widely recognized "American" in the Third World. He also invested in desert fighting vehicles I was told by a social anthropologist who had spent his high school and fieldwork time in the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia before attending school in Chicago where he told me he first moved into an apartment near the "Loop" and had a strange feeling he was being watched. After a few weeks he asked a neighbor and as it turned out he was living in the apartment formally occupied by a "Black Panther".