Yusuf/Cat Stevens opens up about his conversion to Islam: 'I was an icon of the majority and now I am part of the minority who are looked down upon'

“I was an Englishman,” he told radio host Lauren Laverne of nearly drowning in Malibu, Calif. “I didn’t know it wasn’t wise to go out at that time of day and take a swim, so I did. “I decided to turn back and head for shore and, of ...