Late Show - with David Letterman

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David Letterman è un famoso comico negli USA da decine di anni (qui il link alla homepage del programma TV).

Venerdì 8 Ottobre 2004, mentre leggeva (come fa abitualmente) una mail da parte di un fan, Letterman arrivò a questo punto:

"Dave,

What if finding the love of your life,
meant changing the life that you love?

From Nina Duran of San Antonio, Texas"

Letterman si è subito rivolto alla sua "spalla" (da 21 anni), Paul Shaffler, il direttore musicale di Dave, e gli ha chiesto se per caso non si trattasse di una canzone, come gli pareva di ricordare.

Qui il video

il testo:

PAUL:
What if finding the love of your life
Meant changing the life that you love?
What if listening to your heart
Meant losing what you’re dreaming of?
What if all that you want to do
Is to drive out your mortal foe?
But the Godless American jackals
Refuse to let you go?

Oh infidels . . . you infidel pig-dogs. ..
This is your warning . . . this is our jihad . . .

Oh infidels . . . you infidel pig dogs,
Prepare for the wrath of God


Dave lo interrompe: "aspetta, sono le parole esatte?"

Paul: "Si, si tratta di Infidel Pig Dogs, di Cat Stevens"

foto dell'album



nel 98 stevens fu colto in Canada a seminare odio e a supportare Hamas

TORONTO - Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was the guest of honour at a Toronto fundraising dinner hosted by an organization that has since been identified by the Canadian government as a “front” for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

In a videotape of the 1998 event obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a “so-called new society” created by a “so-called religion” and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to “lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land.”

The Jerusalem Fund is one of four “fronts” named in a secret Privy Council Office memo that was sent to Jean Chretien, then prime minister, on May 23, 2000, discussing what it called groups that “have unsavoury links with terrorism.

“In a limited number of cases, fundraising in support of violent foreign struggles takes place in Canada through the cover of ethnic, religious or community-based associations and groups, lobbying and even criminal activity,” the report says.

“Front groups operating in Canada include the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services (Hamas Front), the World Tamil Movement (Tamil Tigers Front), the Canadian Kurdish Information Network (Kurdistan Workers Party Front) and the Babbar Khalsa (a Sikh extremist front).” ...

Mr. Islam denies any ties to terrorism. “I never knowingly gave any terrorist group money,” he said after being deported from Israel in 2000. “I’ve given to poor people and hospitals. I’ve helped to buy ambulances in the Holy Land. Obviously quite clear and supportable aims.”

But on June 20, 1998, Mr. Islam gave the keynote address at a Jerusalem Fund fundraising dinner held in Toronto. The event was videotaped, and a copy was obtained by the SITE Institute, a U.S. terrorism research organization.

The video opens with a scene of Niagara Falls, overlayed with the Jerusalem Fund logo, which features the al-Aqsa Mosque and the maple leaf. It begins with an unidentified man explaining the activities of the Jerusalem Fund, which he describes as “helping the Muslims in Palestine” by financing hospitals, health clinics, families in need and orphans.

“Palestine is close to the heart of each and every Muslim. What the Muslims of Palestine have been doing for many years now has been that bright light shining, that hope ... that they are still believers that can raise the banner of jihad in the most difficult of circumstances.”

Mr. Islam then begins a 45-minute speech in English in which he says it is “intolerable” for Muslims to “stand and watch” the situation in the Middle East. He describes Jerusalem as the centre of a land that is holy because of its connection to Allah.

“So this city which is blessed because of its religious nature. Therefore, what we see today is the result of the departure of religion from this area, of the uprooting of religion. So many of the people of the faith have been exiled from this region, moved on, to make way for what? Strangely and ironically, they moved on in the name of so-called religion, on behalf of ... the Jews.

“Of course, that would explain what is happening. Because the moment that religion and religious virtues disappear, there for sure follows trouble, tyranny, oppression,” he says. “So what do we see then today? The concoction of a so-called new society based on an old society.”

He says there could be “no redeemer except Allah. No political concept or construct or treaty or agent except the laws of Allah, which he instructed for this world. Jerusalem is that, the symbol of that. Out of the hands of the righteous then it falls into disrepute and blood.

“Jerusalem, al-Quds, it is a mirror reflecting the reality ... If it is dark, if it is bloody, then so too is the world. Today it reflects injustice of the secular man over the religious man. And how can the secular man be given the control and the sanctuary of the divine place of worship when he doesn’t even respect what is holy? How? And how can those of faith allow that to happen? Therefore, peace will not return until we return to the Holy Land.”




questo thread anche per quelli de "è ridicolo fermare Cat Stevens all'aeroporto solo perchè si è convertito all'Islam"