Pairing sacred texts with sexy lingerie didn't sit right with many Muslim viewers.
Author:Whitney BauckPublish date:Oct 6, 2020Rihanna has long delighted the fashion world and her fans by creating products that are hailed for their inclusivity when it comes to size, color and sexuality. But with her latest Savage x Fenty show, the business and music mogul nonetheless earned the ire of some for her show's inclusion of a song that sampled from an Islamic hadith.
"im really upset rihanna :( ive always loved and looked up to you and appreciated your sense of diversity in all your branding. now, i see you put an islamic hadith or prayer in your music for a lingere show? thats beyond disrepectful and disappointing. im so sad," commented one user on Instagram. The comment racked up over 50,000 likes in 24 hours.
American pop culture has a long history of pulling religious imagery and text out of context to the chagrin of the faithful — Madonna built her early career on such outrage-inciting appropriations from the Catholic church. But Rihanna doesn't seem to be pulling a page out of that book, at least not intentionally.
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