Yusuf/Cat Stevens has said he was “cleverly framed” to look like he supported the fatwa against author Sir Salman Rushdie. Sir Salman lived in hiding for many years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his execution over his 1988 book The Satanic Verses.
Singer-songwriter Stevens, 72, was accused of backing the fatwa, although he vehemently denied this was true at the time. Appearing on Desert Island Discs, he said: “I was certainly not prepared or equipped to deal with shark-toothed journalists and the whole way in which the media spins stories. “I was cleverly framed, I would say, by certain questions, where I couldn’t for instance rewrite the 10 Commandments.
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