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The context for one of the two(?) TV statements on air was Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals.

Great TV factual, devilish, host led open panel discussion about hair trigger dilemmas of real life and law staged by an international QC (now KC) and human rights lawyer.

It was literally about exploring the gap between written law, law as practicied, morals and ethics, and circumstances that would test anyone.

Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam was a typical guest .. an everyman of no particular deep study into such things, just one of many on the Clapham omnibus.

Taking anything said by anyone on that particular show, sans context, as a literal statement of their core personal belief is tenuous at best.

Good show concept though, pity it's not around anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Robertson#Media_caree...



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