Rihanna called out for "appropriating Islam"
Updated | By Stacey and JSbu
Rihanna comes under fire over her 'disrespectful' outfit choice matched with an equally insensitive song that she performed at her fashion show for Fenty.
Last Friday Rihanna staged the latest Savage X Fenty show in New York, and while she was praised for the show's inclusivity, she has come under fire by the Islamic community for one part of the show.
The singer has been accused of appropriating the Islamic culture by playing Hadith during her Savage X Fenty, while models donned the lingerie line in New York.
Hadiths are highly revered records of the traditions or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and are sacred to Muslims. Within Islam, a Hadith is regarded as sacred and second only to the Quran.
During the Fenty show, the scared recording was sped up and mixed with dance music which models also performed to while on stage - the song titled ''Doom'' by London producer Coucou Chloe was used. The remix uses a narration of a Hadith about the signs of the day of judgement.
rihanna is responsible for this even if she didn’t choose the music. she hired her team and she must’ve heard the songs beforehand and just because she’s rihanna doesn’t give her a free pass to disrespect a religion pic.twitter.com/V2oZErQhOg
— Maria (@selenarules6) October 4, 2020
Social media users were quick to call out the popstar and fashion mogul for being insensitive and disrespectful to the Islamlic community:
My religion is not ur asthethic @rihanna
— waiting for KIBUM (@zaazaaa2020) October 5, 2020
Shame on you..
My skin crawls to think that I ever supported you
I don’t support lana & i lovee Rihanna but y’all need to start giving the same energy y’all gave lana to Rihanna cause she just offended a whole religion. Im a muslim & i am offended by it. https://t.co/beREZo7Ulm
— ✨princess mio ✨ (@Kacchan_lilshit) October 5, 2020
What Rihanna did is genuinely scary. A Hadith over a song? We’re just getting closer & closer to the end times
— Jarrin ❼ (@jarrinxx) October 5, 2020
dont know why i feel like this rihanna thing is for marketing strategy. which is awful 🤮
— maryyyyy (@irdinafaizall) October 5, 2020
It seems that it is not the first time the singer played offensive music at an event, in 2017 it was used as the soundtrack to the Fenty X Puma show.
this isn’t even Rihanna’s first time, i’m disgusted, the level of disrespect is absurd, cancel her for good. #Rihannaisoverparty pic.twitter.com/xe32NqyNxo
— #blacklivesmatter (@vibeewithnat) October 5, 2020
In 2013, it has also emerged that Rihanna posted a picture in which she wore a headscarf outside a Mosque. Rihanna was asked to leave the Sheikh Zayed Grand mosque in Abu Dhabi after taking "inappropriate" photos outside it. She was as also heavily criticized for this.
So apparently Rihanna did this shit 2 years ago and we didn't notice. pic.twitter.com/dlZrhLVS3a
— salma🏳️ (@SalmaKhaledAlyy) October 5, 2020
Rihanna has not yet publicly commented on either controversy, despite calls for her to apologise.
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