Cat Stevens on Terrorist Watchlist - Plane Diverted

CFLarsen said:
I thought you would need to resort to redefining "woowoo", in order to marginalize me. It now means, according to you, "someone who could be wrong". Who is playing games again? How is that going to help the reputation of JREF and skepticism?

Redefining otherwise accepted meanings of words is a typical woowoo trait. E.g. "evidence".

Nice going. I look forward to see you use this new meaning when discussing things with other people, too.

Forging quotes Claus...that really is intellectual dishonesty of the worst sort don't you think? But pretty much expected from you.

And a prime example of the woo-woo tactics you embrace and have come to personify here at JREF. No redefinition needed...you make false statements, and play semantic games in order to disrupt the skeptic's forum (as well as denying evidence, running away when cornered, and all the other tired old games that have been so thoroughly spelled out by many people in previous threads on your favorite subject...you) thereby putting you squarely in the anti-skeptics camp, in other words, on the side of the woo-woos like Sylvia Browne, et al.
When you help them attack skeptics and drag this forum down, you are a woo yourself, no matter what your personal beliefs.

But do entertain us with your woo-woo explanation as to how
forging quotes from other people, and derailing rational discourse is helping the JREF mission.
 
Another link between Cat Stevens and terrorism:

http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=572cea4b-839c-4080-9999-f53611a46aba

Cat Stevens was guest of Canadian Hamas front
Muslim singer criticized Judaism as a 'so-called' religion

Stewart Bell
National Post

September 28, 2004

TORONTO - Yusuf Islam, the British singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was the guest of honour at a Toronto fundraising dinner hosted by an organization that has since been identified by the Canadian government as a "front" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

In a videotape of the 1998 event obtained by the National Post, Mr. Islam describes Israel as a "so-called new society" created by a "so-called religion" and urges the audience to donate to the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services to "lessen the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and the Holy Land."

The Jerusalem Fund is one of four "fronts" named in a secret Privy Council Office memo that was sent to Jean Chretien, then prime minister, on May 23, 2000, discussing what it called groups that "have unsavoury links with terrorism.

I don't know, either he's really bad at picking the organizations he supports, or it's not so easy to support Islamic organizations that don't have links to terrorism.
 

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