Something Has Broken

... and it ain't morning. First, you have Ashcroft's batting average of 0 for 5,000 in the number of detainees rounded (and roughed) up without a subsequent conviction. Now, you have a hippie peacenik turned Islamic peacenik added to the security watch list and barred from entering the United States.

[...]
"The refusal to allow Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, into the United States on national security grounds was a 'slap in the face of sanity,' a Muslim group has said.

Islam was stopped from flying into Washington on Tuesday from London after his name appeared on a security watch list.

His plane was diverted 600 miles to a Maine airport, where Islam was questioned and detained before being sent back to Britain Wednesday."
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"It seems that the U.S. officials would rather that the untrue and distorted images of Islam and Muslims persist in the minds of its own citizens," Altikriti said.

Islam, who was born Stephen Georgiou, took Cat Stevens as a stage name and had a string of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including "Wild World" and "Morning Has Broken."

Now, I suppose they'll ultimately come out and say that the person on the watch list is a different Yusef Islam. Then again, I guess if they can detain Ted Kennedy on the same grounds, they can detain anybody.