1.) Injustice done TO Muslims....
I am in total agreement with the full exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday!! Based on the evidence, Justice WAS done!! But just two days ago, ANOTHER legal case, which happened 56 years ago, was officially found to be NOT fair and two innocent men were falsely convicted of murdering Malcom X (in center of the photo). Their names are Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam and they were exonerated the day before KYLE was....without the same media attention he received, I might add.
One of these falsely accused men died since the erroneous conviction and one is now 83, his life was ruined. I hope the fact that these guys were Muslims doesn’t prejudice anyone from admitting THEY WERE WRONGLY CONVICTED, and that that’s terrible and unacceptable.
2.) Injustice done BY a Muslim...
Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) is AT IT AGAIN!! For the past few years he's been re-recording and reissuing his albums from 50 years ago, BEFORE he became a Muslim. His new lyric video for his most commercially popular song ever changes the wording of this 1971 hit from "springing fresh from The Word" (meaning the Lord Jesus Christ) to "springing fresh from THE WORLD." And yes, Cat DOES understand that "The Word" refers to Jesus Christ, in the Bible!! Because on ANOTHER song from that same album, "Changes IV," he mentioned "The Word" as being "Him" (Jesus). That song also referenced a PREACHER preaching to him, by the way.
As I mentioned yesterday to Yusuf in a comment that will probably be deleted, I can understand that he, as a Muslim now, does not want to acknowledge JESUS as he did 50 years ago. But he has no right to alter those lyrics, he did NOT write THEM!! He should have avoided doing a LYRIC video for this song.
"Morning Has Broken" was taken from his 1971 album "Teaser and the Firecat." In the album BEFORE that, "Tea for the Tillerman" (1970), his song "On The Road To Find Out" originally said we should "pick up the Good Book now" (meaning the Bible). When he re-recorded that album last year, he altered it to "pick up ***A*** good book now." In that case, he has the right to alter his own lyrics but he has NO right to alter the lyrics of the late Eleanor Farjeon!!
BELOW: THE ORIGINAL 1971 "TEASER" ALBUM QUOTED FARGEON ACCURATELY, USING LANGUAGE THAT'S FOUND IN MILLIONS OF HYMNALS AROUND THE WORLD....
AND AGAIN, ANY CHRISTIAN HYMNAL WITH "MORNING HAS BROKEN" IN IT HAS "THE WORD" IN THE LYRICS. IT'S CENTRAL TO THE POINT OF THE HYMN!!
It's a very well-done video except for that INJUSTICE to the one who wrote the lyrics....
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