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Uthman
07-18-2008, 06:47 PM
Musician Cat Stevens - now known as Yusuf Islam - has won libel damages over articles suggesting he refused to talk to women not wearing a veil.

The stories also claimed that the singer - a Muslim convert - would only speak to women other than his wife through a third party.

His lawyer told The High Court in London that "Mr Islam has never had difficulties working with women".

The World Entertainment News Network agency has already apologised.

'False impression'


Its article, entitled "Yusuf Islam ignores bare-headed women", was distributed to its subscribers including Contactmusic.com, read by more than two million people per month, which also published an apology on its website.

Mr Islam's laywer, Adam Tudor, told the court the allegations had caused the singer "considerable embarrassment and distress".

He said that the defendants now accepted that the claims were "entirely false" and had "created an utterly false impression of attitude to women"

"In his normal life, women feature among some of the most influential people in Mr Islam's team."

Mr Tudor added that the story "cast serious aspersions, quite wrongly, on his religious faith, which is of the utmost importance to him".

WENN and Contactmusic.com also agreed to pay the singer's legal costs, while the damages have been donated to his charity Small Kindness.

The musician, who converted to Islam in 1977, was not in court.

In 2005, Mr Islam won substantial libel damages from The Sun and Sunday Times after they falsely claimed he supported terrorism.

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Uthman
07-20-2008, 03:58 PM
:bump:
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Zarmina
07-21-2008, 12:47 AM
World Entertainment News Network issued an apology, saying:

"We now accept that these allegations ... are entirely without foundation, and that Mr. Islam has never had any difficulties working with women, whether for religious or for any other reason."
Praise Allah!
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muslimah_online
07-29-2008, 07:03 AM
Why are they assuming things without proper interrogations.. always trying to cause controversies and speculations.
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