Editing Cat Stevens (section)

=====Lawsuit over News UK newspaper reports that he had supported terrorism=====
In October 2004, ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' and ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' newspapers voiced their support for Yusuf's exclusion from the United States and claimed that he had supported terrorism. He sued for [[Defamation|libel]] and received an out-of-court [[Settlement (litigation)|financial settlement]] from the newspapers, which both published apology statements saying that he had never supported terrorism and mentioning that he had recently been given a [[Man of Peace]] award from the [[World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates]]. However, ''The Sunday Times'' managing editor Richard Caseby said that while there was an "agreed settlement", they "always denied liability" and "disagreed with Cat Stevens' lawyers interpretation", but took a "pragmatic view" of the lawsuit.<ref name="libel1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4268651.stm|title=Singer Islam gets libel damages|publisher=BBC|date=15 February 2005|access-date=6 May 2006}}</ref>

Yusuf responded that he was "delighted by the settlement [which] helps vindicate my character and good name.&nbsp;... It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims and, in my case, it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair", and added that he intended to donate the financial award given to him by the court to help orphans of the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami]].<ref name="libel1"/> He wrote about the experience in a newspaper article titled "A Cat in a Wild World".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,1317260,00.html|title=A cat in a wild world|work=The Guardian|location=UK|date=1 October 2004|first=Yusuf|last=Islam|access-date=6 May 2006}}</ref>