Cat Stevens

[Joseph Tracy]

I don't think Mark Douglas  read the article very carefully.  H e repudiates the accusations against him in the Rushdie case and repudiates all violence and terrorism. He is being kept out of the U.S. because that criticism  includes U.S. terrorism. He is one of the rare celebrities who has devoted his life directly to real service to his community. I dare anyone on this list to match his humanitarian credentials.
"Consistently I have condemned the attacks of 9/11, stating that the slaughter of innocents, the taking of hostages and coldblooded killing of women and children have nothing do with the teachings of Islam. I've openly and publicly repudiated the actions of groups that resort to such acts of inhumanity � whatever their names. Any allegations to the contrary are fabricated. The Koran equates the murder of one innocent person with the murder of all of humanity. 
Ever since I embraced Islam in 1977, people have regularly tried to link me with things I have nothing to do with. Take the Salman Rushdie case as an example, or the regurgitating of the accusation that I support groups like Hamas. 
I am a man of peace, and I denounce all forms of terrorism and injustice; it is simply outrageous for anyone to suggest otherwise. The fact that I have sympathy for ordinary people in the world who are suffering from occupation, tyranny, poverty or war is human and has nothing to do with politics or terrorism. "


Joseph Tracy
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