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Cat Stevens Appearance At Sanity Rally Rankles Right Winger

Conservative bete noir Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stevens) made a guest appearance at the Comedy Central rally today, inspiring an instant backlash from at least one right winger, a group fond of accusing the musician of sympathizing with terrorists.

Islam was accused in 1989 of sympathizing with Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie. In 2004, he was booted from the U.S. after landing on the terrorist watch list, but was allowed reentry without incident two years later.

During Islam's appearance, Sarah Palin aide and Weekly Standard writer Michael Goldfarb tweeted "What the fuck. Sanity = supporting fatwa against Salman Rushdie?"


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"Peace Train" -- a song he seldom plays -- to tens of thousands of assembled fans.