Then Cat Stevens - Yusuf Islam - bubbled up in the Guardian like a fart in a bath, still demanding that Rushdie withdraw his book and 'repent', and claiming that his support of the fatwa was in line with the Ten Commandments. (In later years he would pretend that he never said any of these things, never called for anyone's murder, never justified it on the basis of his religion's 'law', never appeared on TV or spoken to the papers to spout his uneducated bloodthirsty rubbish, knowing he lived in an age in which nobody had a memory. Repeated denials could establish a new truth that erased the old one.)