Islam: 'i Don't Have A Split Personality'.
19 November 2006
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Islam: 'i Don't Have A Split Personality'.... The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens insists his spiritual reinvention as Yusuf Islam doesn't mean he suffers from a "split personality".The Morning Has Broken singer turned his back on music and became a devout scholar of the Islam religion in 1978 after almost drowning off the California coast.And he says a lot of the things he dreamed about while living as singer Stevens have come true in his new guise as humanitarian Yusuf Islam.He explains, "There's not really a split personality. There is, however, a cultural difference between what I represented as Cat Stevens to what I represent today as Yusuf Islam. That's true."But it's me and all the all the things I was dreaming about as Cat Stevens, my God, a lot of them has come true as Yusuf Islam".Cat Stevens Still Fears 'Journalistic Malice'
Meanewhile in other news the star is so wary of the press he records every interview he conducts for fear of being misquoted.Muslim convert Yusuf Islam, who devoted his life to the religion in 1978, successfully sued British newspapers The Sun and The Sunday Times for libel in October 2004, after he was named on a 'no-fly' list and denied entry into the US in September (04).Islam also caused controversy in the late 1980s when he was misinterpreted by journalists who reported he favoured a call for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.The Father And Son star says, "I had a few occasions when I had a brush with the press and it was very harsh, very hostile to my conversion.
"I can't help but think that somewhere along the line there's somebody who has a position, and perhaps something to guard and protect, that stops people from knowing about Islam".
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