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Cat Stevens/Yusuf was in town about a month ago and I am/was really,really sorry that I missed him. I was all set to buy tickets thinking that it was sometime in the distant future (Leonard Cohen and Cat Empire will also be here a bit later this year...I'm mentioning this as the idea for buying tickets for all three shows came up in the same conversation) then heard someone talking about having been to the gig. Damn! I love the 70s (except the songs that they turned in Muzak to be sung in singing lessons at primary school).
I'm reading Nomad at the moment by Ayaan Hirsi Ali which seems to be at odds with "non American hating, Christian-hating,woman-hating, violent" image that you're putting forward...but then the Indonesian students that I taught a couple of years ago are very devout Muslims and co-existed quite peacefully with their non-Muslim classmates. I'm guess what I'm wondering is where the tipping point is in terms of severe disagreement between non-fundamentalists. Is it fairly close to the surface as Ayaan Hirsi Ali claims or much further buried/non-existent as Yusuf/Steven's songs suggest?
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