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Austrian teacher replaces God with Allah 

 

VIENNA: A teacher in the Austrian city of Wels substituted the word ‘God’ in a popular Christian children’s song with ‘Allah’. The teacher said the alternative version was meant to be sung only by Muslim kids in a mainly-Muslim class.

However, the decision has caused outrage among Christian parents, with some filing a complaint with the state council that oversees school activity.

“It isn’t just about the use of the word Allah. It also means God! You just can’t go about rewriting text like this,” said the father of one of the pupils to Austrian newspaper Krone.

The original song, titled ‘Gottes Liebe ist so wunderbar’ (God’s love is so wonderful) is extremely popular among Austrian Christian children.

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.