The singer-songwriter now known simply as Yusuf didn't mention his religion by name during his Monday show at New York's Beacon Theatre. But at one point – late in the second of two deeply moving sets filled with classic songs – he did reference the backlash he encountered during the years when he left behind both his old stage moniker,
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