For a singer-songwriter who plays such gently inoffensive music, Yusuf Islam has made a lot of news.
Yusuf Islam was born Stephen Demetre Georgiou in London to a Greek Cypriot father and Swedish mother.
As Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam had a string of hits in the 1960s and 70s, including Wild World and Morning Has Broken.
"More recently, our intelligence community has come into the possession of additional information that further heightens our concerns towards Yusuf Islam, " he added.
Other acts performing over the course of the week include Keane, the Fratellis and Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens.
Here, Yusuf Islam performs songs from throughout his career and chats with callers about his music, his spiritual life and the way the two combine and connect with each other.
Action was taken against the musician, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam in the 1970s, after US officials realised he was on a security "watch list".
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Progress on this has been slow, but this week Islamia School in London, set up by Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens, a 1960s pop star), became Britain's first state-financed Muslim school.
But Blackwell had great stories, including an anecdote about trying to get Stevens, who's gone under the name Yusuf Islam since 1981, to try to release his new album under his old name.
Although it is proud of having converted Cat Stevens, a British folk-rocker now known as Yusuf Islam, to the faith, Tablighi has no ledgers, no office holders, no funds and no orthodox means of public relations, claims Malik Mumtaz, one of its elders.
John Esposito of Georgetown's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding says Yusuf has been working on a project to translate key texts of Islam that are important to the Muslim community and that may also be of interest to non-Muslims.
Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute, which has "established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam, " according to his online biography.
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