California Middle School Makes Kids Sing About Spreading Islam

Parents in Orange County are outraged after seventh-graders were asked to sing a song about spreading Islam in class.

A social studies teacher at Spring View Middle School gave students an ode to Islam to sing, set to the tune of Rachel Platten‘s “Fight Song.” But instead, the chorus goes:

This is their fight song

Spread Islam now song

Prove that they’re right song 

Other parts of the song declares that they “don’t really care if no Jews or [Christians] believe,” and “Islam… Allah’s on the way.”

Parents were upset, to say the least. “I believe that by singing this song, the children feel comfortable believing that maybe Allah is the only god, and maybe that they should start following him,” one parent told CBS Los Angeles. “And that I’m not OK with.”

Even Islamic organizations like CAIR aren’t happy with the song, especially the lyrics “they might only have one god, but they can make an explosion.”

“Our reaction was that obviously the teacher could have had a better choice of words,” spokesman Ojaala Ahmad said.

Watch above, via CBS Los Angeles.

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