Its not so much religion.Its its interpretation & twisting of its core beliefs, to suit the dogma of those at the top.Fundamentalism whether it be MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN or JEWISH leads to abuse of human rights, & a lack of freedom as well as wholescale predjudice.
Man causes the problems in the end.If you study the core religions, they ALL preach the same basic beliefs.As I said, its peoples interpretation that leads to the worst abuses.All religions have been guilty of this over time!
You might wish to fact check instead of repeating what's said on right wing websites or TV stations.Further, discuss 'Islamic repression of women' with women who live an Islamic lifestyle.Many don't feel repressed.Did you miss it when Southern Baptist preachers claimed wives must obey their husbands and they belong in the home?Does that make all Southern Baptist men misogynistic repressors of women's rights?No more so then characterizing all Islamic men as misogynistic.Don't judge by the class
@RogerHWerner roger, i know many muslim women personally and these women are so abused, subjugated + brainwashed they will tell you they are happy the way they are
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this is merely proof of how oppressed they are
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i judge muslims by the shariah law they support which is sexist + prejudiced against women
You judge by the class.Such attitudes are what creates racism, sexism, homophobia.Judge people one at a time.In this instance, you're judging something with which you have no knowledge beyond that what you have superficially read.Islam is not my cup to tea but I won't dam 1.3 billion people because I don't happen to agree with their religious predilections.You conveniently neglected to condemn Southern Baptists, many of whom are horribly sexist.Southern Baptists are white...sorry, I forgot.
@RogerHWerner yes roger, i judge. my judgment is that i dont like shariah law on the basis that it creates inequality for women
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i am very knowledgeable about islam, but regardless, a fool can see that sexist societies result from the koran
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i'm not damning 1.3 billion people, the koran damns them to live under sexist shariah law. i want freedom, democracy + equality for muslims, that is why i oppose shariah law
I don't argue with your criticisms of Sharia law. I object to your presumption that every Muslim adheres to it rigidly. They don't anymore than all Southern Baptist men adhere to the sexism of their some of their ministers. Whenever someone claims everyone in a class is the same it simply proves their prejudice. I don't think you mean to be prejudice but believe me when one judges by the class that is the hallmark of prejudicial thinking.
@RogerHWerner thank you for agreeing with me that shariah law is unequal toward women
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roger, i think you misunderstand me. i am not judging muslims, i love muslims, i want them to have the same freedoms + equality that we have which is why i strongly oppose shariah law
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shariah law is prejudice against women, i am against shariah law because i believe all women should have equality
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there is absolutely no prejudice in what i'm saying. in fact, my position is staunchly anti-prejudice
You're presuming ALL Muslims embrace Sharia when that's simply untrue.You're judging another culture from the perspective of your own and not sensible.I've worked in half dozen countries and visited 15 others, and can tell you American culture from the outside seems prejudicial, undemocratic, and unjust.Yet, from within America, from the dominant Judaeo-Christian perspective, prejudice, injustice, and lack of democracy are hardly noticed.Whose view is correct?Perspective matters a great deal!
@RogerHWerner by definition muslims advocate shariah law. to say muslim can be muslims is as ridiculous as saying a nazi can be a nazi without advocating nazism
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i can tell you which view is correct, it is the view that advocates equality, democracy + human rights.
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american culture is prejudicial, undemocratic, + unjust when it doesnt adhere to the values of human rights, equality + democracy
Your anti-prejudicial statement in favor of women contains within it a prejudicial comment against Muslims.Your basic perspective is anti-prejudicial but you're being contradictory.You're condemning ALL Muslims as sexist (a generalized prejudicial comment against 1.3 billion Muslims) while claiming to promote the rights of women everywhere.How do you know Muslim females want a Western way of life?Many don't.
@bigcherry99 what exactly is the shariah law. i have some muslim friends in american that dont follow it and are very nice. please give me a source/link that says yusuf supports the repression of women and the shariah law. i would like to see proof,although that wont change the fact that i love his music and will always!
People are saying this is about a company being closed down - I must admit that I always thought it was about what it is like to be a "wage slave" in a company or big souless organisation that doesn't care less about it's employees (i.e. 99% of them).
@BluntVeritas I dont hear anything in the lyric about a company being closed down I know a guy who had a 4 track tape of this we used to ride in the car and listen to it over and over its about being a wage slave as you said so its a good work song and a tounge in cheek protest song at the same time one you might expect from phil ochs
I love this song in late fridays...And I loved to read comments. I'm an enterpreneurer who has one employee -myself...lol. I same time love and hate my job.
this is a song about Cambridge.Mathew and Son was a shop in Cambridge,England,and they couldn't afford the rent.So they closed.The landlord was one of the colleges which makes Cambridge University,who's rents are among the worlds highest.This happens all the time.
Never heard this one until tonight on Deep Trax. Love the instrumentals. Very untypical Cat Stevens in a way. Some parts sound like Gary Jules Mad World. I really am glad to have found this.
cold play have stolen a part of this melody for that one mad world, what's with them and stealing from yusuf and taking the cred??? have you guys heard mad world? and the bridge in this song, it's stolen man, stolen!!!! first they stole this, then they stole foreigner suite, I hate coldplay for this! listen to the he's got people workin and then the "I find it kinda funny" part of mad world, it's STOLEN
@BazzaPa4 yes of course ....its possible that Tears for fears may have either known this song or at least heard it previously and that section somehow slipped into their song, of course I guess its just as possible they came up with the same fundemental riff.
@BazzaPa4 This happens more often than people think, and it's a wonder that more songwriters aren't sued. The "chung chung chung" guitar in Evi Sand's "I Can't Let Go" (she did the original; the Hollies covered it) sounds exactly like the same riff on Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
@janfreidun .Pinching lyrics& music was rampant in the 60`s&70`s with some covers being to some better than the originals.It would be nice if those guilty of this at least give credit to the original artist tho.Men at Work have just lost much of the money from LAND DOWNUNDER for using a small flute part inspired by KOOKABURRA.The lawsuit was filed by a company that bought the rights to Kookaburra .Yusuf could have their arses in court if it mattered to him i am sure.
Well, everyone tends to listen to things and it gets caught up in their minds. It's natural. And Yusuf/Cat never complained. Still, very good spot. :)
the way he clicks his toungue and how you can hear the sound coming from his mouth right before he sings a phrase, and he does it after , in between phrases, like another instrument . why didnt more people do that? really run with it. O YEAH its fuckin nasty! i hate that shit. sounds like he has some major cottonmouth
@MightySaturn5 There was a record the big hits from england with mathew and son telstar a whiter shade of pale and some song by the rolling stones i cant remmeber
@MightySaturn5 it was on the big hits from england with the rolling stones the tornadoes procol harum my friend had it on a 4 track tape we used to listen to it in the car over and over cats records have a big orchestra 1:47
I loved the horn section on this. I'm usre this was on a 70s compilation my brother had, maybe it was re-released in NZ. Cat had the best songs of his generation. Didn't everyone sing Morning has broken at primary school?
Brilliant song! Love you Cat! Not so sure about yusuf though!
wembley05 1 week ago
typical 13 year old teenager, and yet i love cat stevens,bruce springsteen and the saw doctors!
mrliverpoolfc1998 1 month ago 4
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tmmvds 1 month ago
Its not so much religion.Its its interpretation & twisting of its core beliefs, to suit the dogma of those at the top.Fundamentalism whether it be MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN or JEWISH leads to abuse of human rights, & a lack of freedom as well as wholescale predjudice.
Man causes the problems in the end.If you study the core religions, they ALL preach the same basic beliefs.As I said, its peoples interpretation that leads to the worst abuses.All religions have been guilty of this over time!
stevobath 1 month ago
why doesn't this song have millions of views, it's one of his best :L
alx64uchiha 1 month ago 2
He was only 18 when did this! He had the same voice we all know and love back then, and he had catchy melodies and lyrics in that time as well. :)
tall32guy 2 months ago 3
Lovely song, peace on earth.....
timmytabby 3 months ago
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bigcherry99 3 months ago
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@timmytabby you won't get peace on earth from cat stevens religion. there have been over 17,000 deadly muslim attacks since 9/11
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islam is anything but peaceful
bigcherry99 3 months ago
This reminds me of the time i worked in a factory at age 17,, In the UK..
Felt the same way, 5 minute break... no cake though!
eastbaysf 3 months ago
Religion load of SHITE . CAT has went to the worst one though . THE CONQUERING RELIGION islam.
7geordie 3 months ago
And you know this...how?
RogerHWerner 3 months ago
@RogerHWerner how do i know? ......because he's a muslim. if he's a muslim, then he supports shariah law
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shariah law represses women, which makes yusef islam a disgusting sexist asshole
bigcherry99 3 months ago
You might wish to fact check instead of repeating what's said on right wing websites or TV stations.Further, discuss 'Islamic repression of women' with women who live an Islamic lifestyle.Many don't feel repressed.Did you miss it when Southern Baptist preachers claimed wives must obey their husbands and they belong in the home?Does that make all Southern Baptist men misogynistic repressors of women's rights?No more so then characterizing all Islamic men as misogynistic.Don't judge by the class
RogerHWerner 3 months ago
@RogerHWerner roger, i know many muslim women personally and these women are so abused, subjugated + brainwashed they will tell you they are happy the way they are
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this is merely proof of how oppressed they are
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i judge muslims by the shariah law they support which is sexist + prejudiced against women
bigcherry99 3 months ago
You judge by the class.Such attitudes are what creates racism, sexism, homophobia.Judge people one at a time.In this instance, you're judging something with which you have no knowledge beyond that what you have superficially read.Islam is not my cup to tea but I won't dam 1.3 billion people because I don't happen to agree with their religious predilections.You conveniently neglected to condemn Southern Baptists, many of whom are horribly sexist.Southern Baptists are white...sorry, I forgot.
RogerHWerner 3 months ago
@RogerHWerner yes roger, i judge. my judgment is that i dont like shariah law on the basis that it creates inequality for women
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i am very knowledgeable about islam, but regardless, a fool can see that sexist societies result from the koran
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i'm not damning 1.3 billion people, the koran damns them to live under sexist shariah law. i want freedom, democracy + equality for muslims, that is why i oppose shariah law
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bigcherry99 3 months ago
I don't argue with your criticisms of Sharia law. I object to your presumption that every Muslim adheres to it rigidly. They don't anymore than all Southern Baptist men adhere to the sexism of their some of their ministers. Whenever someone claims everyone in a class is the same it simply proves their prejudice. I don't think you mean to be prejudice but believe me when one judges by the class that is the hallmark of prejudicial thinking.
RogerHWerner 3 months ago
@RogerHWerner thank you for agreeing with me that shariah law is unequal toward women
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roger, i think you misunderstand me. i am not judging muslims, i love muslims, i want them to have the same freedoms + equality that we have which is why i strongly oppose shariah law
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shariah law is prejudice against women, i am against shariah law because i believe all women should have equality
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there is absolutely no prejudice in what i'm saying. in fact, my position is staunchly anti-prejudice
bigcherry99 3 months ago
You're presuming ALL Muslims embrace Sharia when that's simply untrue.You're judging another culture from the perspective of your own and not sensible.I've worked in half dozen countries and visited 15 others, and can tell you American culture from the outside seems prejudicial, undemocratic, and unjust.Yet, from within America, from the dominant Judaeo-Christian perspective, prejudice, injustice, and lack of democracy are hardly noticed.Whose view is correct?Perspective matters a great deal!
RogerHWerner 3 months ago
@RogerHWerner by definition muslims advocate shariah law. to say muslim can be muslims is as ridiculous as saying a nazi can be a nazi without advocating nazism
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i can tell you which view is correct, it is the view that advocates equality, democracy + human rights.
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american culture is prejudicial, undemocratic, + unjust when it doesnt adhere to the values of human rights, equality + democracy
bigcherry99 3 months ago
Your anti-prejudicial statement in favor of women contains within it a prejudicial comment against Muslims.Your basic perspective is anti-prejudicial but you're being contradictory.You're condemning ALL Muslims as sexist (a generalized prejudicial comment against 1.3 billion Muslims) while claiming to promote the rights of women everywhere.How do you know Muslim females want a Western way of life?Many don't.
RogerHWerner 3 months ago
@RogerHWerner i am in favor of equality + against prejudice. shariah law is prejudice against women, therefore i am against it
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anyone who identifies as a muslim is advocating shariah law + i therefore condemn them as they advocate inequality
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if muslim women dont advocate equality for all (both for themselves + others), then i condemn their world view as discriminatory
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i condemn anyone who does not advocate human rights, equality + democracy. its ridiculous to say that makes me 'prejudice'
bigcherry99 3 months ago
theres just somthing about this song and this man that i fucking hate so so much
hardrinker1989 3 months ago
@bigcherry99 what exactly is the shariah law. i have some muslim friends in american that dont follow it and are very nice. please give me a source/link that says yusuf supports the repression of women and the shariah law. i would like to see proof,although that wont change the fact that i love his music and will always!
loveablemeggy 5 months ago
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loveablemeggy 5 months ago
People are saying this is about a company being closed down - I must admit that I always thought it was about what it is like to be a "wage slave" in a company or big souless organisation that doesn't care less about it's employees (i.e. 99% of them).
BluntVeritas 6 months ago
@BluntVeritas I dont hear anything in the lyric about a company being closed down I know a guy who had a 4 track tape of this we used to ride in the car and listen to it over and over its about being a wage slave as you said so its a good work song and a tounge in cheek protest song at the same time one you might expect from phil ochs
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
I love this song in late fridays...And I loved to read comments. I'm an enterpreneurer who has one employee -myself...lol. I same time love and hate my job.
LukasFin 8 months ago
Yes, I too, am a 8 year old girl...
Who listens to Cat Stevens...
NobodyFucksWithJesus 11 months ago
This Song best describes my Job. (-.-)
TehJew22 1 year ago 4
love it my dads name is matthew p.s. im a 8 year old girl
chakachaka1 1 year ago
a cup of cold coffee & a piece of cake.......sums it all up eh?
66gadus 1 year ago
Great song, but I can't forgive any artist who puts his/her own prejudices above the right to freedom of expression...
mgayford 1 year ago
@mgayford i love this singer and made wrestlers of him with this song and father and son
KurtMista 1 year ago
@hawkeyepearce wow, what waterproof logic, i feel so pants down
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
allahu akbar!!! the artist formerly known as cat stevens -- what a brillant moron!!!
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
this was one of the first records i ever bought, i am going to have to get up in the attic and replay it.
canonqueen 1 year ago
amazing tune great singer
hargohargo 1 year ago
this is a song about Cambridge.Mathew and Son was a shop in Cambridge,England,and they couldn't afford the rent.So they closed.The landlord was one of the colleges which makes Cambridge University,who's rents are among the worlds highest.This happens all the time.
ignas62 1 year ago
The intro part sounds like the Wii Fit theme!
jamiedw99 1 year ago
such a catchy tune!!
BeMyBelarus 1 year ago
HOORAY!! It's so hard to get the original song. Not a live or acoustic etc version. Thankyou
kiwihome 1 year ago
And this song was written during the HEIGHT of the 60's boom.
It amazes me how english speakers take so much crap from their employers and even feel sorry for the bast-rds.
ryoushii 1 year ago
Such good times
vesidude 1 year ago
Fucking A!!!!
kennykunt 1 year ago
Never heard this one until tonight on Deep Trax. Love the instrumentals. Very untypical Cat Stevens in a way. Some parts sound like Gary Jules Mad World. I really am glad to have found this.
rwm1 1 year ago
cold play have stolen a part of this melody for that one mad world, what's with them and stealing from yusuf and taking the cred??? have you guys heard mad world? and the bridge in this song, it's stolen man, stolen!!!! first they stole this, then they stole foreigner suite, I hate coldplay for this! listen to the he's got people workin and then the "I find it kinda funny" part of mad world, it's STOLEN
janfreidun 1 year ago
@janfreidun my other post to Mighty Saturn isn't working. Mad World was written by Tears for Fears 15 yrs after this song. both awesome tracks :)
BazzaPa4 1 year ago
@BazzaPa4 yes of course ....its possible that Tears for fears may have either known this song or at least heard it previously and that section somehow slipped into their song, of course I guess its just as possible they came up with the same fundemental riff.
MightySaturn5 1 year ago
@BazzaPa4 This happens more often than people think, and it's a wonder that more songwriters aren't sued. The "chung chung chung" guitar in Evi Sand's "I Can't Let Go" (she did the original; the Hollies covered it) sounds exactly like the same riff on Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
shmuli9 1 year ago
@janfreidun .Pinching lyrics& music was rampant in the 60`s&70`s with some covers being to some better than the originals.It would be nice if those guilty of this at least give credit to the original artist tho.Men at Work have just lost much of the money from LAND DOWNUNDER for using a small flute part inspired by KOOKABURRA.The lawsuit was filed by a company that bought the rights to Kookaburra .Yusuf could have their arses in court if it mattered to him i am sure.
58Vulcan 1 year ago
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degree7 1 year ago
always liked this song however at 1:37 -Mad World?
MightySaturn5 2 years ago 30
I thought the same thing. The more time goes by, the more, the ever mistreated, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam proves to be a genius!
roccoal 2 years ago 9
@roccoal he's a great big farging idiot is what he is...
lundehund44 7 months ago
@lundehund44 i disagree! hes an amazing song writer!
loveablemeggy 5 months ago
@roccoal yusef islam is not mistreated, he's a sexist asshole
bigcherry99 3 months ago
@bigcherry99
I talked about as an artist, I don't know his views on the matter.
roccoal 3 months ago
@roccoal yes, i agree with you. cat stevens has perhaps not had as much recognition as he deserves as an artist. he was supremely talented
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maybe its his unsavory personal views that have hurt his artistic reputation?
bigcherry99 3 months ago
@bigcherry99
I don't believe so, but i don't know, maybe you're right and maybe you're wrong ;)
roccoal 3 months ago
@MightySaturn5 .. very much.. only this was written 15 years before Tears for Fears hit the scene.
BazzaPa4 1 year ago
@MightySaturn5
yesterday me and my friend tpught exactlythe same
RobDaChoc 1 year ago
@MightySaturn5
Well, everyone tends to listen to things and it gets caught up in their minds. It's natural. And Yusuf/Cat never complained. Still, very good spot. :)
TheGerkuman 1 year ago
the way he clicks his toungue and how you can hear the sound coming from his mouth right before he sings a phrase, and he does it after , in between phrases, like another instrument . why didnt more people do that? really run with it. O YEAH its fuckin nasty! i hate that shit. sounds like he has some major cottonmouth
Dead4everYoung 1 year ago
@MightySaturn5 I thought that too!
jamiedw99 1 year ago
@MightySaturn5 even though it was recorded about 16 years before mad world?
plentyolove 1 year ago
@plentyolove ...actually I thought it was an even larger time gap
MightySaturn5 1 year ago
@MightySaturn5 i was referring the original mad world,but if you meant the recent cover version,then yes it is decades older.
plentyolove 1 year ago
@MightySaturn5 I hear ya with the Tears for Fears.
berky1 1 year ago
defo mad world, heard this for the first time in ages the other day and that struck me instantly
UltimateGreb 1 year ago
defo mad world, heard this for the first time in ages the other day and that struck me instantly and the start bit is the proclaimers
UltimateGreb 1 year ago
@UltimateGreb lol-yeah, struck me the same way
MightySaturn5 1 year ago
@MightySaturn5 There was a record the big hits from england with mathew and son telstar a whiter shade of pale and some song by the rolling stones i cant remmeber
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
@spacepatrolman Thanks for the info, have a great day
MightySaturn5 4 months ago
@MightySaturn5 mad worlds melody is a reminiscent of this song. thats where mad world got the tune from
drrocksow 3 months ago
@MightySaturn5 it was on the big hits from england with the rolling stones the tornadoes procol harum my friend had it on a 4 track tape we used to listen to it in the car over and over cats records have a big orchestra 1:47
spacepatrolman 3 months ago
@MightySaturn5
lol, totally
HeldThread 2 months ago
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bloodthurstyprd 2 months ago
Great arrangement..That harpsichord touch is killin'!
C0NTR4B455 2 years ago 2
great song
MattHardy317 2 years ago 3
a superb song, i cant wait to see him on dec 5th
choclatesaltyballz 2 years ago
I loved the horn section on this. I'm usre this was on a 70s compilation my brother had, maybe it was re-released in NZ. Cat had the best songs of his generation. Didn't everyone sing Morning has broken at primary school?
chrisraupo 2 years ago
no, but we sang it at church.
tranurse 2 years ago
this is fantastic excellent 1000000 stars ******** for you
echoes707 2 years ago 3