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 dont want to come across as a bigot or a racist, but I really dont 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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“The young man, in rejecting dhimmitude (surrender to Islam) apparantly objected to THIS HORSE CRAP. “
There are some beautiful images in the video.
Brings to mind how Satan will appear as an angel of light...
ROP?
I’m sure the aclu will come running in chanting “Separation of Church and State!”
What? No? That’s only for Christians? Okay, now I understand...
mark
ROP = “Religion of Piece” and those are HEAVY SARCASTIC QUOTES.
I quit a large city choir because one number was “Ave Maria”. Beautiful music, but praying to a dead person... not into it.
That's a great start. I'll add that after wearing said t-shirts a few times (get ‘em nice and sweaty and stinky), I'd then use the t-shirts as toilet paper, of course using the image of Mo as the initial point of contact. After that, burn the shirts.
“The public schools say that Silent Night is unconstitutional in public schools, but that this passes Constitutional muster. If thats not a total contradiction, I dont know what it. How can this make any sense to anyone?”
From the philosopher Andrew Dice Clay, circa 1988: “It's okay to f**k your buddy up the a*s, but don't light up a cigarette!” Both are symptoms of the breakdown of America.
“Baksheesh, baksheesh, Spi-ike...” LOL
I remember a version of "This Land Is Your Land" which was altered by the elementary music teacher to lament the woes of carelessly dumped trash and beg the audience "please stop pollution." That was pretty tame, but it did not stay that way; the movement grew into the curly bulb foisting monster we see today.
I did not understand that you had linked to the top of your own thread. I also don’t understand why you would do that, rather than linking to the actual story.
Can’t recall ever seeing anyone here do that, but if that’s what you intended, okie dokie.
I’m sorry, you are not making any sense. It wasn’t the top of this thread. It was another thread. I’m done explaining.
Actually, that’s exactly what I was saying. I didn’t look to see who started the thread and I don’t care.
And I don’t care about any further explanations. You did something unusual and didn’t make it clear. Not my bad.
I sent an e-mail to Jeff at district 51 Allah does not translate to God in English. They worship the pagan moon god. whose name is Sin. And they relish such ignorance in our educational system.WAKE UP! is a good CRY I would follow it by COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!
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