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Colorado student quits high school choir over Islamic song praising 'Allah'
Fox News ^ | February 15, 2012 | Fox News

Posted on 02/15/2012 3:37:42 PM PST by beaversmom

A Colorado high school student quit the school choir after an Islamic song containing the lyric "there is no other truth except Allah" made it into the repertoire.

James Harper, a senior at Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction, put his objection to singing "Zikr," a song written by Indian composer A.R. Rahman, in an email to Mesa County School District 51 officials. When the school stood by choir director Marcia Wieland's selection, Harper quit.

"I don’t want to come across as a bigot or a racist, but I really don’t feel it is appropriate for students in a public high school to be singing an Islamic worship song,” Harper told KREX-TV. "This is worshipping another God, and even worshipping another prophet ... I think there would be a lot of outrage if we made a Muslim choir say Jesus Christ is the only truth."

But district spokesman Jeff Kirtland defended the decision to include the song.

"Choral music is often devoted to religious themes. ... This is not a case where the school is endorsing or promoting any particular religion or other non-educational agenda. The song was chosen because its rhythms and other qualities would provide an opportunity to exhibit the musical talent and skills of the group in competition, not because of its religious message or lyrics," Kirtland told FoxNews.com in an email while noting that the choir "is a voluntary, after-school activity."

"Students are not required to participate, and receive no academic credit for doing so," he said.

At an upcoming concert, the choir is scheduled to sing an Irish folk song and an Christian song titled "Prayer of the Children," in addition to the song by Rahman.

"The teacher consulted with students and asked each of them to review an online performance of the...

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Video of song

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1 posted on 02/15/2012 3:37:48 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

I personally would go ahead and sing the song but with substantially altered lyrics when we got to the allah part.


2 posted on 02/15/2012 3:41:30 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: beaversmom

ISLAM isn’t a race. I believe that those that subscribe to that religion are human. So - how can he be a racist...unless Moslems come from another planet???

Good for him - the incursion of Islam must be pointed out. I wonder how many other foreign music compositions they performed before this one???


3 posted on 02/15/2012 3:41:37 PM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: beaversmom
Choral music is often devoted to religious themes

Except at Christmas time! What BS!

I wonder where the school fathers discovered this "Islamic Music."

ML/NJ

4 posted on 02/15/2012 3:43:28 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: steve86

Good point. Maybe that part could be left out unless it’s throughout the piece.


5 posted on 02/15/2012 3:46:18 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

You took my kisses and you took my love,
(snapping fingers)
You taught me how to care;
Am I to be just the remnant of a one-sided love affair?
Allah you took, I gladly gave,
There’s nothing left for me to save.

Allah me, why not take Allah me,
(Yeah Baby)
Can’t you see, I’m no good without you.
Take my lips I want to lose them,
Take my arms I’ll never use them,
Your good bye left me with eyes that cry,
How can I go on dear without you.

(Go Daddy-O)

You took the part that once was my heart,
So why not take Allah me.

Doo be doo be do
Scooby dooby do
To or not to be
(Big Finish)
Allahu ... Foo Barrrrrrr


6 posted on 02/15/2012 3:46:31 PM PST by tumblindice (Whitey-American: Taxed Enough Already)
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7 posted on 02/15/2012 3:47:16 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: tumblindice
Take my arms I’ll never use them

You left out the take mylegs part:

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8 posted on 02/15/2012 3:49:21 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Oh, I was thinking of substituting something rude but didn’t want to put that in your thread.


9 posted on 02/15/2012 3:55:52 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: steve86

Ha, ha. Well if they sing it in a weird way or backward no one would notice.


10 posted on 02/15/2012 3:57:30 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

11 posted on 02/15/2012 3:58:43 PM PST by AnTiw1 (I lived through a mormon hell, I will not live in a country with a mormon president.)
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To: beaversmom

I heard it first here! And we live fifteen min.from G.J.High.
I intend to send letters out.This High school has a pretty good school newspaper-seems college level on some of their stuff. But I agree with the student.I can’t imagine any public school in America endorsing/promoting Islam as would be the case if/when this song is required for presentation.


12 posted on 02/15/2012 3:59:14 PM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: beaversmom

How is this legal?


13 posted on 02/15/2012 4:03:24 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: AnTiw1

Ohhhh, boy......if only.


14 posted on 02/15/2012 4:05:29 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (I can haz Romney's defeat?)
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To: beaversmom

Does the choir sing Handel’s Alleluia during Christmastime?


15 posted on 02/15/2012 4:05:44 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Brilliant

If a Jewish person in the chorus wanted to sit out a Christmas carol because he didn’t believe what it was going to ask him to sing, nobody would complain about that. Really, why can’t this fellow sit this sicker “Zikr” out without repercussions?


16 posted on 02/15/2012 4:07:17 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: beaversmom

Good for this student...they would never allow a song with Jesus name in it....


17 posted on 02/15/2012 4:09:09 PM PST by goat granny
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To: beaversmom

Rahman is a Muslim. I didn’t read the story closely, but I suspect they’ve glossed over that fact and misled with the “Indian” appellation so that one might assume that he’s Hindu.


18 posted on 02/15/2012 4:10:32 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: goat granny

Answering you on this thread. The other was locked as a duplicate. It’s not your computer.


19 posted on 02/15/2012 4:11:48 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: SoothingDave

Just don’t allow Islam to be mixed with any other religion because it is not similar with any other main stream religions. Inch by inch by inch by inch. Stop this is it’s tracks - NOW!


20 posted on 02/15/2012 4:12:09 PM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection then failure is your election)
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