Christian nationalist troubadour Sean Feucht is bragging about interrupting a peaceful procession of Muslims in Chicago Aug. 9.
“We did a Jesus March right through the Muslim March in Chicago!!! This is crazy!!!” Feucht declared on social media Sunday. “This may be the most hardcore Jesus March we’ve ever done!”
The march he interrupted was the annual Arbaeen Procession, a peaceful and nonpolitical event that commemorates the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
It appears the permitted Muslim event passed through a corridor where Feucht’s “Roots of Revival” tour was to take place an hour later. Nevertheless, Feucht portrayed this as a Muslim invasion and a “spiritual war” between Christians and Muslims.
Someone needs to teach the man-child Feucht some manners. What he did was crude and rude and un-Christian. But this is what passes for faithful living among MAGA evangelicals.
Remember, this is the same branch of evangelicals who got so upset when anti-ICE protesters walked into a Southern Baptist worship service in St. Paul, Minn., last January. The evangelicals said they were the victims of religious persecution.
How many of those same evangelicals will stand up for the religious liberty of Muslims not to be disrupted by angry Christians?
As the group of Muslims gathered to sing, pray and read their Scriptures, Feucht led his group of evangelical worship warriors right through them as the Christians waved flags, blew shofars, chanted and banged on buckets with American flag stickers on them.
“Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” Feucht’s warriors yelled, as Feucht echoed by chanting, “King of kings!”
“The Muslim march stopped at a street corner,” Feucht said in a video posted online Sunday evening. “And we marched literally right through them just declaring the name of Jesus. And it was like a holy confrontation that we didn’t even plan for.”
Feucht’s plans for worship warfare
All this fits perfectly with Feucht’s view of evangelical worship as warfare and his false belief that America was founded as a “Christian nation” and therefore Christians should have privileges others do not receive.
He sees worship as a weapon Christians wield to fight back the spiritual darkness. Thus, he strategically plans out his worship tours to target specific locations for waging spiritual battle. These have included every state Capitol and the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
As I detail in my forthcoming book, Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism Form the Soundtrack of Extremism, Feucht said during one of his 2025 tour stops with Charlie Kirk’s former pastor and Turning Point USA Faith cochair Rob McCoy, “I was on a phone call today, actually, on the way down here, talking with the America 250 team. We are planning and plotting to do revival meetings, sponsored by the U.S. government, all across the nation.”
The audience roared as McCoy lifted his hands into the air and Feucht kept the momentum going: “There’s going to be such an explosion of revival!”
Again, these are the same people who falsely claim America is experiencing spiritual revival since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Feucht’s tour eventually became the “Roots of Revival: America 250” tour. But this weekend didn’t exactly go according to plan. On Saturday, Feucht took to social media in a panic when his two sound guys missed their flight to the worship event in Rochester, N.Y.
“Both of our sound guys missed their flight connections into Rochester in time for our event!!!” he wrote. “We are scrambling!!!! Please pray!!!”
As I explained on Facebook, the reason this was such an urgent moment of desperation for Feucht was likely due to the fact that he believes worship is warfare. So going into battle without your two sound guys would be like Pete Hegseth flying the troops into Iran and not having his commanders.
After they were able to find some replacement sound guys, Feucht blamed the missed flights on witchcraft.
“It’s been a battle,” he said. “I’m telling you every time I come here to New York … I feel such intense witchcraft! Like crazy witchcraft! … It started with us not even having sound guys.”
Then on Sunday’s stop in Chicago, Feucht’s plans once again hit unexpected turbulence — this time due to the presence of Muslims.
A worship awakening
As Feucht prepared Sunday for his planned worship event, he walked up to the Buckingham Fountain in Chicago to discover a group of Muslims singing, praying and reading the Quran.
“This is insane. What I’m witnessing right now behind me is crazy,” Feucht said into his camera for social media while pointing his finger at them. “A massive Muslim march through the city where they’re declaring their allegiance to Allah and that the entire city of Chicago is going to bow to Allah.”
Of course, that’s not exactly what was happening. Participants in the Muslim event had been instructed to be peaceful, respectful, not to bring political signs, and to pick up their own litter.
If anything, this was an invasion of kindness and courtesy, not an attempt for Muslims to take over the city.
Yet Feucht and his allies — as BNG has documented stemming from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — have been spreading Islamophobia like wildfire. Over the past few weeks, Feucht has been warning evangelicals that a new test was coming like the test he believes evangelicals failed during the COVID pandemic by taking it too seriously.
On Sunday, he saw that test coming at him in the form of peaceful Muslims marching.
“Have you woken up yet? Do you understand what is at stake in our nation?” Feucht asked. Then with palpable disgust in his voice, he scolded, “The church is asleep. And right now the church is pathetic. Meanwhile, these Muslim marches are happening all over America.”
Feucht continued: “They got their banners and they’re lifting them up. And they’re marching through the city. And they’re shouting, ‘Allah Akbar!’ And they’re lifting up an altar to a foreign god!”
A “foreign” god, he reckons, because of his wrongheaded belief that America is to be run entirely by Christians.
Taking back territory
In Feucht’s world, worship is territorial. To him, it’s one thing to find worship to Allah in the Middle East, but not in the United States.
“No, I’m not in the Middle East. No, I’m not in Iraq or Afghanistan,” he said. “This is Chicago. … The city is being filled with worship and dedication to a false god.”
With the election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York City and Abdul El-Sayed winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan, many conservative Christian Republicans have been spreading baseless conspiracy theories that the United States will soon be overtaken by Sharia Law.
Spreading fear of Muslims is an attempt to drum up enough fear to get out the vote in November and save Congress for the Republicans.
“Right now, they’re in America. And they’re in our cities. And they’re marching. And they’re declaring things. I mean what they were talking about — Allah, Mohammed, all the stuff — guys it’s insane!” Feucht says on video. “The city is being hijacked with prayers and decrees to a false god. And darkness is coming over the city because of it.”
And how does Feucht plan to counter this supposed Islamic hijacking of cities? By wielding worship as a weapon against those who worship what he considers to be “foreign gods.”
“It’s time to take back territory! Time to take back territory for Jesus in Chicago!” Feucht announced. “We’re declaring the name of Jesus. We’re saying Chicago belongs to Jesus, not to Mohammad, not to Allah, not to Buddha, not to Joseph Smith, not to any other of these false gods. It belongs to Jesus.”
Local governments persecuting Christians
Feucht’s political concern about the upcoming midterms cannot be missed here. As I covered in Episode 147 of the BNG podcast “Highest Power: Church + State,” Feucht is voicing his sudden concern about apathy in the church at the same time storylines are reporting a lack of enthusiasm among Republican voters dismayed by Trump.
So while Feucht may not have expected to cross paths with Muslims in Chicago on Sunday, he believes God planned for their spontaneous worship battle in order to wake up conservatives.
In a video titled “The Battle for America is NOW,” Feucht says, “The Lord, I believe, led us into this moment so that we could wake up and we could see truly that there is a spiritual battle. Will the Christians of America rise up?”
In order for his narrative to hold up, Feucht must lie about his spiritual enemies.
Feucht said the Muslims were “on a street corner. No permits. No planning. They just show up.” Then he said, “Of course, they make us get permits. They make us get insurance. They make us get all kind of stuff.”
Turns out that’s not true at all. The Muslim group was permitted and proper.
But then in another video, Feucht contradicts what he said in the previous video: “You know what’s wild? We couldn’t get a permit. The city of Chicago would not give us a permit. But yet they don’t have a problem giving a permit to these guys. No permit for Christians. But they’ll give a permit to Muslims.”
Feucht can’t get his conspiracy theories straight.
Lack of compassion and kindness
This whole enterprise Sunday shows how lacking in class Feucht is. He’s a militant musician who isn’t the brightest bulb in the chandelier. He says exactly what he thinks, and he’s often wrong.
Can you imagine what would happen if the roles were reversed here — if Muslims marched through and shouted down an evangelical procession? Feucht would be leading the charge shouting how persecuted Christians are in America.
But because he lacks compassion and kindness and human decency, Feucht thinks he’s done a favor for Jesus when in reality, all he’s done is bring more shame to the Jesus movement.
Remember it was Jesus who taught, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Rick Pidcock
Rick Pidcock is a 2004 graduate of Bob Jones University, with a bachelor of arts degree in Bible. He’s a freelance writer based in South Carolina and a former Clemons Fellow with BNG. He completed a master of arts degree in worship from Northern Seminary. He is a stay-at-home father of five children and is the author of a forthcoming book, Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism Form the Soundtrack of Extremism. Follow his blog at www.rickpidcock.com.