Sir Salman Rushdie slaps down Yusuf Islam

the rally for sanity just happened in Colbert and Jon Stewart and Yusuf Islam was all he performed which I thought was he came out he kind of late and I knew that fact yeah so how did you feel about that not good not good actually you know he's dropped the Islam now for mysterious reason you suffer yes he's just Youssef like Cher and Madonna except with a very big deal there's a pretty great peerage and share with a very big deal this weekend in burlesque no but I mean I actually was I thought it was a mistake to have invited him and I actually called up Jon Stewart and we had a couple of conversations and I think you know by the end of it I think he's pretty clear that it that it was a probably a misstep you know because he's he's not a good guy he's not I mean it may be that he once sang peace train and I mean there was a point when I was a college student and I had a copy of tea for the Tillerman you know but he's not he hasn't been Cat Stevens for a long time you know he's a different guy now and are you a different guy from that guy who wrote that book in was in there I'm older but I'm the same writer you know I mean I I feel very proud of that book and I think one of the great things about the time having passed is if now people can read The Satanic Verses as a novel you know instead of as I've got a hot potato as it was intended to be yeah and so now some people like it some people don't like it but that's the ordinary life of a book I know and it's finally able to have that is there any fear at all because neither you're gonna relive that and reprint some of that stuff no I think we have to stop thinking that's let's thinking yeah

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Keywords: Salman Rushdie, Sir Salman Rushdie, George Stroumboulopoulos, Luka and the Fire of Life, Yusuf Islam, Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini

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Length: 1min 36sec (96 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 25 2010