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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M17qFKXSMiw&feature=related

To everybody in the Middle East, Peace Train is dedicated to you and also to the folks in the Mid West...........  Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana.....   Keep on keepin on and we'll do the same from here.......... 

Plain White T's - Rhythm of Love with Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dktpycvIyA&feature=related

Dolly Parton I will always love you youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_utP1mGoutQ&feature=fvwrel

Peace Train Cat Stevens youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ5iHgcPnHA

Peace Train Dolly Parton youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO84xt_ydB8

Yusuf Islam (Cat stevens) Boots & Sand (NEW!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-m5k_nW8mc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens
Cat Stevens Wikipedia
Excerpt:
September 11 attacks
Immediately following the 11 September 2001, attacks on the United States, he said:
I wish to express my heartfelt horror at the indiscriminate terrorist attacks committed against innocent people of the United States yesterday. While it is still not clear who carried out the attack, it must be stated that no right-thinking follower of Islam could possibly condone such an action. The Qur'an equates the murder of one innocent person with the murder of the whole of humanity. We pray for the families of all those who lost their lives in this unthinkable act of violence as well as all those injured; I hope to reflect the feelings of all Muslims and people around the world whose sympathies go out to the victims of this sorrowful moment.[58][59]
He appeared on videotape on a VH1 pre-show for the October 2001 Concert for New York City, condemning the attacks and singing his song "Peace Train" for the first time in public in more than 20 years, as an a cappella version. He also donated a portion of his box-set royalties to the Fund for victims' families, and the rest to orphans in underdeveloped countries.[60] During the same year, Yusuf Islam dedicated time and effort in joining the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism, an organization that worked towards battling misperceptions and acts against others because of their religious beliefs and/or racial identity, after many Muslims reported a backlash against them due in part to the grief caused by the events in the United States on 9-11.[46]

[edit] Denial of entry into the United States

On 21 September 2004, Yusuf was on a United Airlines flight from London to Washington, travelling to a meeting with U.S. entertainer Dolly Parton, who had recorded "Peace Train" several years earlier and was planning to include another Cat Stevens song on an upcoming album.[49] While the plane was in flight, his name was flagged as being on a no fly list. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers alerted the United States Transportation Security Administration, which then diverted his flight to Bangor, Maine, where he was detained by officers from the Department of Homeland Security.[61]
The following day, Yusuf was denied entry and flown back to the United Kingdom. A spokesman for Homeland Security claimed there were "concerns of ties he may have to potential terrorist-related activities".[62] The Israeli government had deported Yusuf in 2000 over allegations that he provided funding to the Palestinian organisation Hamas;[63] he denied doing so knowingly.[64] "I have never knowingly supported or given money to Hamas," says Yusuf, who repeatedly has condemned terrorism and Islamic extremism.[65] "At the time I was reported to have done it, I didn't know such a group existed. Some people give a political interpretation to charity. We were horrified at how people were suffering in the Holy Land."[64] However, the United States Department of Homeland Security added him to a "watch list".[16] The US removal provoked a small international controversy, and led British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to complain personally to US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the United Nations.[66] Powell responded by stating that the watchlist was under review, adding, "I think we have that obligation to review these matters to see if we are right".[67]
Yusuf believed his inclusion on a "watch list" may have simply been an error: a mistaken identification of him for a man with the same name, but different spelling. On 1 October 2004 Yusuf requested the removal of his name, "I remain bewildered by the decision of the US authorities to refuse me entry to the United States".[68] According to a statement by Yusuf, the man on the list was named "Youssef Islam", indicating that Yusuf himself was not the suspected terrorism supporter.[11] Romanization of Arabic names can easily result in different spellings: the transliteration of the Islamic name for Joseph (Yusuf's chosen name) lists a dozen spellings.
Two years later, in December 2006 Yusuf was admitted without incident into the United States for several radio concert performances and interviews to promote his new record.[69] Yusuf said of the incident at the time, that, "No reason was ever given, but being asked to repeat the spelling of my name again and again, made me think it was a fairly simple mistake of identity. Rumors which circulated after made me imagine otherwise."[70]
Yusuf has written a song about the 2004 exclusion from the U.S., entitled "Boots and Sand", recorded in the summer of 2008 and featuring Paul McCartney, Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, and Terry Sylvester.[71]

Teach Me to Trust Dolly Parton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZRy13BDh8&feature=related
Paul McCartney-Freedom+Let It Be@Concert For New York City

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