Cat Stevens on Colbert Report

I just watched the episode of the Colbert Report with Cat Stevens as a guest. I must say that I was pretty disappointed at Colbert for not calling him out. I understand leaving the strange past out of the picture as long as Stevens doesn't make any contradictory claims, but when Stevens said something along the lines of "Islam is a religion of peace. The first thing you learn to say is Salaam which means peace. So when Muslims greet each other by saying 'Salaam' they are constantly greeting each other, saying 'Peace' 'Peace' 'Peace.'"

The obvious response should have been something like, "Oh. And how would you greet Salmon Rushdie? 'Peace. By the way, I said that you must die for a piece of fiction you wrote, but I meant it peacefully.' (Cite.)

Or 'How do you greet homosexuals? 'Peace. By the way I think you should be stoned to death. Oh and I also think that positive portrayals of homosexual people in schools is a result of school administrators accusing those who advocate such policies of wanting to "feast off the innocence of our children for their own abominable sexual appetites". (cite).

That Colbert did not call him on this makes me a little sad inside. I THOUGHT that as a comedian who had the balls to do what he did at the White House Press Corps dinner, and as an alum of The Daily Show, who will take on anything, he would have the balls to call him on it.

Oh well.


UPDATE: After a technical issue and an absence, I have had to re-post all of my old posts. As a result there will be many posts listed as published today, Dec 3, 2009, that were posted sometime earlier in the year, but I do not know the exact date. this post is one of them.