Jim Robinson
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Posted on 02/15/2012 3:37:53 PM PST by Sopater
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.
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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???
Good for him. Can the ‘nusic’ instructor. Now.
Bravo..! Bravo..!
You posted the same story 11 seconds after FReeper beaversmom! What a coincidence! Good job!
We were competing! ;)
I’d replace it with the parody song, “Hey Allah!” featuring Saddam Hussein.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADsKmStcHA
He needs to move to another county. Fast.
Good for him. He has principles and honor.
If this had been a song praising Jesus Christ, Obama would have had the Air Force bomb the school by now.
Or they could do an infomercial for making Mohammed Cookies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f7_O9x65E0
If this was the U.K. they would have called the police and he’d be in jail now.
Wait a minute. I mean Infidel Cookies!
There is no need to pronounce your position on this, thats where we all go wrong. We know who we are and we know this as fact. This is the first mistake everyone makes and an acknowledgment that thier indoctrination program has worked. I am a realist
You are brave to post those words together
The Student didn’t misinterpret anything, the a-holes that picked this propaganda piece did.
It is nice to see this kid stand against this monstrous religion, but it is shameful that the rest are not standing with him.
The school is not going to fire the libtard idiot teacher.
The parents should fire her.
Yes, well, “he” keeps writing scripts with the intent of reversing the order......
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