{"id":5036,"date":"2004-09-29T00:58:24","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T04:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/09\/29\/oped-from-the-former-cat-stev"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:24","slug":"oped-from-the-former-cat-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/09\/29\/oped-from-the-former-cat-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"op\/ed from the former Cat Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"cat     Yusuf Islam, f\/k\/a <\/FONT>Cat Stevens<\/FONT><\/A>, has penned an op\/ed piece appearing in today’s <\/FONT>Los Angeles Times<\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>  (Sept.28, 2004), <\/FONT>in which he describes his trip last week to the U.S.A. and instant deportation.   “Something Bad Has Begun<\/FONT><\/A>: The former Cat Stevens says he hasn’t changed but the U.S. has<\/EM>.”  Islam says “<\/FONT>I am a <\/FONT><\/FONT>victim of an unjust and arbitrary system, hastily imposed, that serves only to belittle America’s image as a defender <\/FONT>of the civil liberties that so many dearly struggled and died for over the centuries.” <\/FONT><\/FONT>Click here <\/A>for other <\/FONT>important excerpts.<\/FONT>
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