Cat Stevens is not interested in discussing his previous remarks about novelist Salman Rushdie.
The singer sparked controversy in 1989 when he appeared to criticize author Salman Rushdie for his depiction of Islam in novel,The Satanic Verses. Stevens converted to Islam in 1977 and officially changed his name to Yusuf Islam a year later. He first embraced the Islamic faith after surviving tuberculosis in 1969, and nearly drowning in Malibu in 1976.
