Cat Stevens calls for release of British hostage
Yusuf Islam, the rocker formerly known as Cat Stevens, is calling "in the name of Allah" on the kidnappers of British engineer Kenneth Bigley in Iraq to release him.
Just days after Islam was denied entry into America after being deemed a terrorist threat, he has now written a letter to the British embassy in Baghdad appealing for the release of Bigley, who faces the threat of a beheading if the US- led coalition forces do not free women they are holding.
Stevens, who became a Muslim in the late 1970s, writes, "As a member of the Muslim Council I request you, in the name of Allah, the Rahman (the all merciful), to release British citizen Ken Bigley for the good name of our religion and according to the sayings of Allah in the glorious Quran."
He urged the Tawhid Wal Jihad group, which is holding Bigley and has already beheaded his two US colleagues, to "do an act of mercy and show the world the justice and mercy which Islam teaches us".
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