You may find more on this incidence on Yusuf Islam's web site: www.yusufislam.org.uk.
This should be about "Art," and I'm posting it under that category, but it belongs in its real unfolding to my "Society" category, a mismatch which simply demonstrates the limits of categorization.
When we deal with real-world events, they can only be understood in their totality and fail to fit into artificial digital divisions.
In the aftermath and in a wonderfully written essay for Asia Times Online, Maliha Masood, a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University started with Yusuf Islam's story and moved onto Rumi's popularity in the U.S.