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Rihanna Issues An Apology To The Muslim Community After It’s Mentioned That A Song Played During Her Fashion Show Featured Sacred Islamic Verses

<p>On Tuesday Rihanna took to social media to issue a public apology to the Muslim community after she was called out for the music selection in her recent fashion show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last week&comma; Rihanna’s latest <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;savage-x-fenty-is-expanding-its-underwear-line-to-men&sol;">Savage X Fenty<&sol;a><&sol;em> fashion show premiered on Amazon Prime&comma; and while fans were excited about the latest fashion&comma; and also seeing some familiar faces modeling the clothes&period; The Muslim community began to call out Rihanna for featuring a song that consists of sacred Islamic verses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;06&sol;us&sol;rihanna-savage-fenty-hadith-muslim-trnd&sol;index&period;html">CNN<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; during a portion of the show&comma; models walked to a song called &&num;8220&semi;Doom&&num;8221&semi; by London-based producer Coucou Chloe&period; The song was released back in 2017 and includes a remix of &&num;8220&semi;a hadith narration about the end of times and judgment day&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A hadith is defined as &&num;8220&semi;a collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad which&comma; with accounts of his daily practice &lpar;the Sunna&rpar;&comma; constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Becoming aware of the backlash&comma; Rihanna posted a statement to her Instagram story and said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;d like to thank the Muslim community for pointing out a huger oversight that was unintentionally offensive in our Savage X Fenty show&period; I would more importantly like to apologize to you for this honest&comma; yet careless mistake&period; we understand that we have hurt many of our Muslim brothers and sisters&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m incredibly disheartened by this&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She continued&comma; I do not play with any kind of disrespect toward God or any religion and therefore the use of the song in our project was completely irresponsible&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check out her full apology below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CGAMmjgh4qo" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Want updates directly in your text inbox&quest; Hit us up at 917-722-8057 or <span class&equals;"s1"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;my&period;community&period;com&sol;theshaderoom">click here to join&excl;<&sol;a> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; Jade Ashley &commat;Jade&lowbar;Ashley94<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"69189" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;rihanna-issues-an-apology-to-the-muslim-community-after-its-mentioned-that-a-song-played-during-her-fashion-show-featured-sacred-islamic-verses&sol;" data-secure&equals;"6042cd2d6f"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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