From Creeping Sharia:
Virginia Glee Club sings Muslim chant at annual Christmas concert
Posted on January 3, 2011 by creeping
“Would a Ramadan celebration include a Christmas song?” Considering Muslims won’t even allow Christmas are bombing churches in many Muslim countries, we doubt it. via Muslim song disappointing at annual Christmas concert
Daily Progress.
My husband and I attended the Virginia Glee Club’s annual Christmas Concert held at the Paramount. We thoroughly enjoyed this concert under the expert direction of Frank Albinder, with one exception.
The program was advertised as a Christmas concert, so we were surprised to see one of his selections, “Zikr.” This song has nothing to do with Christmas. It is a Muslim chant to their God. I think it is disingenuous to insert an Islamic chant, however good and exciting the music, which is the antithesis of Christian music.
Zikr reminds Muslims to remember their God — Allah, who is not the God of the Christians. We celebrate at Christmas the biblical view of God — that he is one in three persons: God the Fa-ther, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit. To give recognition to the Muslim’s God by putting this devotional chant along side Christian songs is totally inappropriate. Would a Ramadan celebration include a Christmas song?
The God of the Koran does not recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God the Father who came to earth to save us from our sins. Was this chant included for the purpose of political correctness?
Mr. Albinder does an outstanding job every year as the Glee Club conductor. I just hope he is more sensitive to his audience next year.
Based on Mr. Albinder’s response, it doesn’t appear he plans on being more sensitive to his audience any time in the near future:
I intended no political message…
Because the Glee Club is made up of students, I feel responsible to program a wide variety of music to expose them to beliefs and cultures that might not be their own as part of their broader education. The university’s founder, Thomas Jefferson, owned a large quantity of religious texts including a prized copy of the Quran. I would hope that he would be supportive of just such an approach to programming.
No political message?
Would Jefferson be supportive? Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja answering Thomas Jefferson’s question, in 1786, of why Muslims held so much hostility towards America:
“Islam was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur’an, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Muslim who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
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