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Published 16:35 06 Oct 2020 GMT
On Friday, Rihanna's Savage X Fenty's second-ever televised lingerie show was released on Amazon Prime and was praised for its diversity and inclusiveness.
However, it is now being criticized for playing a remix of an Islamic prayer to a house beat. The remix is called 'Doom' and was created by UK-based producer CouCou Chloe.
If you've not yet seen it, check out this trailer for the second-ever Savage X Fenty show now streaming on Amazon Prime:
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Some of Rihanna's fans have since taken to Twitter to criticize the "offensive" track.
One user wrote: "Using Islamic Hadith as a Background Music is Highly Discourteous. Rihanna and All Others who were Involved in this Sh*t can F*ck Off. And to All the Islamophobes, It's Abhorrent, not Aesthetic. You don't Know Anything about Our Religion, so Stay Out of it [sic]."
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Another person wrote: "Rihanna literally has her models dancing to an Islamic hadith (sayings of the prophet) what the f*ck is this what’s going on in this world."
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A third user wrote: "So y’all can cancel madonna but not Rihanna?? Madonna literally danced in front of burning crosses. But using an Islamic Hadith in a song is just nothing? Don’t silence us again! what kind of world do we live in man."
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In response to the backlash, the 32-year-old has taken to her Instagram Story to apologize for using the “unintentionally offensive” song which featured an Islamic Hadith.
In the lengthy post, the We Found Love singer wrote:
"I’d like to thank the Muslim community for pointing out a huge oversight that was unintentionally offensive in our Savage x Fenty show. I would more importantly like to apologize to you for this honest, yet careless mistake.
"We understand that we have hurt many of our Muslim brothers and sisters, and I’m incredibly disheartened by this! I do not play with any kind of disrespect towards God or any religion and therefore the use of the song in our project was completely irresponsible!
Moving forward we will make sure nothing like this ever happens again. Thank you for your forgiveness and understanding. Rih."
The entire Savage x Fenty show is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
