Rushdie actually called Stewart himself after the Cat Stevens thing and Stewart realized his mistake in inviting Yusuf Islam to the rally. Penn Jillette tells this story on one of his sunday school podcast episodes. Stewart first vigorously defended himself, then hung up, checked the facts and called Rushdie back with a full apology. Couldnt find that clip, but Rushdie mentions the incident here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThUgpNYr2Oo

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love the fact that they refuse to call Yusuf Islam by his name...
stay classy fox

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"The sad thing is that this vocal minority attack moderate Muslims like Yusuf Islam who preach tolerance, acceptance, peace and understanding."

Whu?!?!?

"Under Islamic Law, the ruling regarding blasphemy is quite clear; the person found guilty of it must be put to death. Only under certain circumstances can repentance be accepted.... The fact is that as far as the application of Islamic Law and the implementation of full Islamic way of life in Britain is concerned, Muslims realize that there is very little chance of that happening in the near future. But that shouldn't stop us from trying to improve the situation and presenting the Islamic viewpoint wherever and whenever possible. That is the duty of every Muslim..."

-Yosuf Islam, in response to the publication of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses"

He is no more "moderate", or sane, than you are, gwaan.

The sad thing is that people like BicycleRepairMan and Gorillaman don't realise that they themselves have been indoctrinated with an intolerant and fanatical form of atheism which teaches that all religion is bad and that people of faith are mindless. It's a shame that many well known atheists - such as Richard Dawkins - advocate a similarly simplistic and intolerant world view. These atheists don't realise that many of their fundamental beliefs are based just as much on faith as the fundamental beliefs of religious people. Furthermore, they automatically paint religion as incompatible with science and reason without realising that many of the greatest scientists and philosophers of all time were people of deep religious conviction.

As with many religions - my own, Islam, included - atheism has been hijacked by a vocal minority that preach intolerance and hatred. The sad thing is that this vocal minority attack moderate Muslims like Yusuf Islam who preach tolerance, acceptance, peace and understanding. It is just a pity that moderate atheists and Muslims don't speak out more often to criticise these minority voices of hate.

Well Yusuf Islam certainly did support the fatwa against Rushdie, but are you really saying that fact justifies his being on a terrorist watchlist?

Well, the man who wrote "Peace Train" also converted to Islam and supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie (and then tried to sleaze out of having said that when it got him bad publicity). Life's a funny thing.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/rushdie-cat.html?_r=1&oref=login An article quoting Yusuf Islam on just what he'd like to see happen to Rushdie, and how he'd help (from the Evil Korporate Media/Librul MSM, I'm afraid).