Christian Rock for Muslims

[Kadie]

Christian Rock for Muslims

By SAMUEL LOEWENBERG
Published: May 10, 2005

MARRAKESH, Morocco, May 9 - In a sprawling open space alongside the Royal Palace here last Saturday night, Baimik Youness and his friend Salahe Boudde were jumping with excitement, about to see their first American rock concert. The Moroccan students had never heard of the band, Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus. Nor had they realized that the three-day concert they were attending was a Christian rock festival.

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The concert was about more than power chords for Jesus. From the evangelists' perspective, it was an opportunity to gain a foothold in a relatively liberal Muslim country and give religious priorities a more central role into American foreign policy.

"We see ourselves as doing important foreign policy work that the Bush Administration is not doing," said the Rev. Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals, a Christian-values lobbying group in Washington and one of the organizers of the festival.

"As followers of Jesus, we should, in our civic capacity, work to reduce conflict by promoting international understanding," he said.

more...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/arts/music/10chri.html?ex=1115784000&en=1fe19af287f0956f&ei=5030&partner=PRESSDEMO

[Merope215]

1. Oh good God.

I wish everyone would leave everyone else alone. :grr:

[blogbear]

2. You and me too Merope215!

[Maat]

3. Amen.

That's the wondeful thing about belonging to a church that believes in all paths to Spirit (including atheism, whatever). We mind our own business.

[blogbear]

5. That I can respect!!

[Kadie]

11. Sounds like my kind of church.

UU?

I haven't attended church in years, but if I were to, I would check out a UU.

[americanstranger]

4. Cruel & unusual punishment.

Christian rock blows.

-as

[Djinn]

8. there is something worse

Melbourne apparently has quite a sizable (relatively of course) Christian PUNK community, just try telling them that's an oxymoron!

[KissMyAsscroft]

6. They are in for a really shitty show.

Probably Petra or DC Talk....ugh. I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartmen starts a Christian rock band and he just takes love songs and changes the word "baby" to "Jesus" Of course he did this with some fairly raunchy songs..."I wanna lick ya up and down Jeeeeeeesus....yeah..." Hilarity ensues.

[sasquatch]

7. I order Motorhead to Morocco right this instance

The Sasquatch Doctrine believes that behind every Kirk Cameron, there's a good solid Lemmy trying to bust out.
:patriot:

[PsychoDad]

9. Amazing !

Muslim Morocco allows this show into the country when Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) is considered to great a risk to be allowed into ours....

Ahhhhh Bizzaro!

[Judi Lynn]

10. Yeah, the man's a real nightmare. We're so much safer now he's not here.

I've heard some Christian churches actually use Yusuf Islam's "Morning Has Broken" for their own Sunday morning services.

Here it is on some Christian dulcimer music recording (How much dulcimer music can you hear before your ears bleed?):



http://www.musicforgifts.com/Religious/morning.htm

[bunkerbuster1]

12. Isn't "morning has broken" based on an old hymn?

that was my recollection, I now see from this cite:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802851274/104-7774657-8563143?v=glance

"It actually is a hymn (the music is appended) that was first published in 1931 and has also been recorded as a popular song."