2/20/12: CO High School Student Quits Choir Over Song Praising Allah

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A Colorado high school student has quit the school choir after the students were told they had to sing an Islamic song containing the lyric “there is no truth except Allah” and “Allah is the only eternal and immortal.”

James Harper, a senior at Grand Junction High School in Grand Junction, Colorado, put his objection to singing the song in an email to Mesa County School District 51 officials. When the school stood by choir director Marcia Wieland’s selection, Harper quit.

Harper told reporters at KREX TV that he felt it was “inappropriate for students in a public high school to be singing an Islamic worship song” adding “This is worshipping another God, I think there would be a lot of outrage if we made a Muslim choir say Jesus Christ is the only truth.”