[Shadow_Group] America's number one singing terrorist awarded peace prize

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Yusuf Islam awarded peace prize
AP in Rome
Thursday November 11, 2004
The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1348085,00.html 

The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, branded by the US as a potential
terrorist risk, was awarded a peace prize in Rome yesterday for his
humanitarian work.

Mikhail Gorbachev presented Yusuf Islam with the "man for peace" award at a
meeting of Nobel peace laureates. The former Soviet leader praised him for
standing by his convictions.
In September, the singer turned up on Washington's no-fly list for having
suspected ties to terrorists, a claim he has called ludicrous.

The singer, who largely gave up music after converting to Islam in the
1970s, said: "Perhaps it's part of the irony that sometimes you have to go
through a test in order to achieve a prize."









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