So apparently AFR is a Christian radio station.

On 9/11 this year my school had a marching band competition.

So anyways. Our show is Shaharazade. It's an Arabian show, about this dude who goes off and marries random girls then cuts their head off the next day. That is, until a girl named Shaharazade comes along and refuses to well... Do the nasty with him. But, what she does is tell stories to him. One of them 1001 Nights. In the process of this, he actually fell in love with her...

So anyways. The color guard was dressed in short white dresses with a gold unitard under it. Our routine was very smooth and graceful, except during the beginning where a few of us played harem girls.
Well someone decided to call in AFR and say that our school has been glorifying the Muslim religion, because we did an Arabian show, we had the whole band dressed in Muslim attire, and we pulled the Taj Mahal onto the field.

Here's a few problems with that statement.
1) Only the guard had on Arabian attire.
2) Yes, our show is Arabian, but the musical that this was based off of was written by an Englishman and the music by a Russian guy. So our music sounds more Russian than anything.
3) The Taj Mahal is in India, but, it has no religion affliction. What it is, is a tomb for a man's dead wife.
4) Our band director is a Methodist Minister. He said he has no problem with Muslims, but he would not glorify their religion. He said if he ever thought that this would've been a problem he would have either picked a different show, or done a different date.

So, if anyone heard something like this (I'm not gonna post the school on here, just that stuff) on AFR, or from someone else... It ain't true!

Sorry, I also felt like going on a rant. About stupid people. So yeah....

So what if you're glorifying the muslim religion? Not that you were.... but so what? Is it against the law to be Muslim? or is it just offensive to be Muslim on 9/11?

I understand the reaction by -some- people regarding certain things happening on 9/11 but quit being ignorant about religion and history and chill out. Arabs have been around a LOT longer than Muslims have. Islam is one of the newest branches of religion out there. Arabs have been around for thousands of years BEFORE Islam became a religion.

What was the reaction to this show??? Did someone try and stop you or protest or anything?

I mean, I wouldn't glorify it since I'm Christian. But I see no problem with other people being it... It's their choice. It kind of bothers me because I live in the "Bible Belt" and everyone criticizes people who aren't Christian... We're kind of supposed to like, not judge others, you know.
Are Arabs even Muslim, like is the majority of Arabians even Muslim? X.x
Uh, well at school a couple of people came up to people in band and called us stupid Muslim and in need of Jesus and all that. Then a few other schools kind of poked fun at us... But nobody did anything serious...
I mean, I really want to know why people are freaking out. Who gives a freaking crap.

http://muslimvoices.org/all-arabs-muslim/

that should be a pretty clear answer to the issue.... I really wish people would inform themselves a little bit better regarding religion and ethnicity and how they are NOT always linked. Sure, lots of Arabs are muslim.... but not all muslims are Arab.

I don't think there is a real majority group of Muslims. There are middle eastern muslims, african muslims (as of 2002 - 329,869,000), south east asian muslims (Indonesia has 202.9 million muslims)....

I couldn't find a number of muslims in the middle east.... but I bet there are lots. But that goes to show that they are spread out all over the world, just like Christians are.

I've lost my train of thought because of other things going on... but people making a big deal out of this are ignorant of religion.