Cat Stevens: Father and Son

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[Dame Hilda Tablet]

He's still doing interesting stuff.
www.yusufislam.org.uk
I do hate the way he's presented now in some quarters as some swivel-eyed loon*. He's actually very measured and thoughtful, just as he ever seemed to be except now perhaps with added maturity. I think he was refused entry into the US for quite paranoid reasons.


*much as the Irish population were generally distrusted in the UK in the 1970s. I remember it with terrible clarity as Catholics were generally viewed as not quite loyal to their homeland. More than once I was told with venom that I had alleigance to the Pope, not my country. At least my accent was English and I didn't stand out on the street. I know girls in my school who wear hijabs who have been verbally abused on the street

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Originally Posted by Dame Hilda Tablet

He's still doing interesting stuff.
www.yusufislam.org.uk
I do hate the way he's presented now in some quarters as some swivel-eyed loon*. He's actually very measured and thoughtful, just as he ever seemed to be except now perhaps with added maturity. I think he was refused entry into the US for quite paranoid reasons.

I always liked him a lot and still do!
I remember too that he was refused entry into the US. The reason: "concerns of ties he may have to potential terrorist-related activities."
Stupid!

*much as the Irish population were generally distrusted in the UK in the 1970s. I remember it with terrible clarity as Catholics were generally viewed as not quite loyal to their homeland. More than once I was told with venom that I had alleigance to the Pope, not my country. At least my accent was English and I didn't stand out on the street. I know Girls in my school who wear hijabs who have been verbally abused on the street

I was raised as a catholic. I remember that as a child they told me that those who were not christians were called pagans and all those christians who were not catholic were heritics
Even as a child I didn't believe all this nonsense

[Dame Hilda Tablet]

I was told by my headmaster when about 10 that only Catholics went to heaven. However, my parish priest (whom I still occasionally pop in to see, he's now being cared for in his old age by seemingly similarly-aged nuns) told me when I asked, that all good people went to heaven and to stop worrying.

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Originally Posted by Dame Hilda Tablet

I was told by my headmaster when about 10 that only Catholics went to heaven.

I was told that too , but catholics also could go to hell or purgatory
And I was told that heritics went to hell and pagans to purgatory.

And a lot of more nonsense ...

[Dame Hilda Tablet]

I was lucky that our parish had the priests that it did. Everyone thought our headmaster was a bit of a twerp anyway.

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At school we had to go once a month to confession. When I was 14 our teacher religion (a priest) told us that if we had nothing to say in the confession, then we could ask for a blessing instead of inventing sins.
So that's what I did