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Hymn Stirs Controversy After Allah Switch
The Local ^ | 26 Jan 2016

Posted on 01/26/2016 1:43:51 PM PST by nickcarraway

An Austrian parent has complained after his daughter was given an altered version of a popular children's hymn in which the word 'God' was replaced with the word 'Allah'.

The woman told local media she was shocked when her daughter came home with the text to learn from the school in the Upper Austrian town of Wels.

The original song "Gottes Liebe ist so wunderbar" which means "God's love is so wonderful" is an extremely popular song for young children in Christian Austria. However, the teacher had decided to rewrite the text, replacing the word God with the word Allah.

The teacher justified the action by saying that the majority of children in the class of 10-year-olds were Muslims, and therefore she had changed the text by hand and replaced the word God with the word Allah.

But the parent of the girl as well as other Christian parents were not happy about the decision, and complained to the school inspector.

The annoyed father of the girl was quoted as saying: "It isn't just about the use of the word Allah. You just can't go about rewriting text like this."

School inspector Karin Lang said that she had requested an interview with the teacher and the school headmaster, and said that the teacher had only wanted to give the Muslim version to the Muslim schoolchildren. She said that one of the children must have accidentally been given the wrong music sheet."

Headmistress Ulrike Fellinger added: "I did not realise that the teacher was planning this. Songs like this in future have no place outside of the religious class."

A year ago an Egyptian man who moved into a house in Grossenzersdorf in Lower Austria had chopped down a crucifix that had been in his neighbour’s garden for 60 years because he found it offensive.

The Muslim had only just moved into the house when he announced that he did not like the crucifix, and told his neighbour that it had to go.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: austria; christian; music
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1 posted on 01/26/2016 1:43:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Those bastards.


2 posted on 01/26/2016 1:46:56 PM PST by paintriot (Desperado...why don't you come to your senses.)
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To: nickcarraway

Disgusting. Maybe they should teach the kids how to yodel the “call to prayer”.


3 posted on 01/26/2016 1:47:53 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("May God save the country, for it is obvious the people will not."- Millard Fillmore)
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To: nickcarraway

Europe is surrendering to the savages without firing a shot.


4 posted on 01/26/2016 1:48:05 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: nickcarraway

The demon god, Allah, which compels millions of Muslims to rape, murder, steal, and force all into submission is not the God of the Bible (or of Austria’s past)


5 posted on 01/26/2016 1:48:35 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: nickcarraway

Dhimmis


6 posted on 01/26/2016 1:49:30 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: nickcarraway

Mohammedanism is incompatible with Western Civilization.


7 posted on 01/26/2016 1:49:40 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” - Voltaire


8 posted on 01/26/2016 1:49:42 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("May God save the country, for it is obvious the people will not."- Millard Fillmore)
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To: nickcarraway
Examples of "Allah's love"


9 posted on 01/26/2016 1:51:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

According to the Koran
Allah is neither male or female, has no son or daughter.

According to the New Testament of the Bible
the God Elohim of Israel has a Son

- Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

.......but Allah has no son.

Therefore the Biblical New Testament Christian God of Israel is not/can not be Allah!


10 posted on 01/26/2016 1:55:06 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Q-U-R-A-N
It’s full of lies for men
No one should stand on the word of the “prophet”
The Q-U-R-A-N!


11 posted on 01/26/2016 1:56:01 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Just not quite the same when one sings about the “Moon God’s Love” as wonderful... Doing what? Making shadows at midnight? Just a little reflection of the sun....


12 posted on 01/26/2016 1:56:19 PM PST by MHT (,)
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To: nickcarraway

[[A year ago an Egyptian man who moved into a house in Grossenzersdorf in Lower Austria had chopped down a crucifix that had been in his neighbour’s garden for 60 years because he found it offensive.]]

A crucifix is offensive but murder , rape ,pedophilia , theft , beating your wife is not.

Europe has invited it’s own demise . Europe’s liberal leaders hate the bible and hate the God of the bible and are sowing confusion trying to exchange God for allah.

(Psalms 9:17) The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Islam is a curse on a nation that has forgotten God.

Make no mistake the God of Abraham , Issac and Jacob and allah are not the same . One is the creator of the heavens and the earth , the other the destroyer from the pit of hell.


13 posted on 01/26/2016 1:56:53 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: nickcarraway

Muslims aren’t supposed to do music. This teacher may be beheaded.


14 posted on 01/26/2016 1:58:26 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

http://heavymetalislam.net/


15 posted on 01/26/2016 1:59:53 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nickcarraway

I see no evidence that Allah loves its votaries.


16 posted on 01/26/2016 2:01:18 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Obama Rules of Engagement: Hands up Don't Shoot)
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To: BenLurkin

“Allah’s fair in love and War.” Right?


17 posted on 01/26/2016 2:06:55 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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This sh-t is not necessarily to convert, but to dissuade those on the fence-especially the younger ones-from being Christian, and to turn them off of religion completely.


18 posted on 01/26/2016 2:14:27 PM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

I guess the 2nd Siege of Vienna wont be as unsuccessful as the first.

They are already in there.


19 posted on 01/26/2016 2:25:09 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Delta 21
In the OT, God has no Son. And he is consistently said to be "One" ---
(Deuteronomy 6:4 ) "Hear, O Israel: The LORD thy God is one LORD,"

and this affirmation of "One-ness" is repeated some 2 dozen times. There is no mention of "Three," as in Trinity.

In your opinion, are there different Gods in the OT and the NT?

20 posted on 01/26/2016 2:27:19 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." -- Billie Holiday)
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