When Cat Stevens converted to Islam in the 1979, he changed his name to Yusuf Islam. Somehow, he ended up on the US's "no-fly list" and in 2004, a flight he was on was diverted from landing in Washington, DC. He had no idea that all the hubbub was over him. He recalled, "The door opened and in walked six gigantically tall, you know, uniformed officers, and they kind of came to me directly, and said, 'Are you Yusuf Islam?' And I thought, what is going on? They took me to the immigration office there. Then I got interviewed by some FBI agents, and that was like the beginning of what I began to realize was a terrible ordeal which I was about to go through." We assume the situation has been ironed out by now, since we saw him play at the Rally to Restore America last year? [ABC News]
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