Rihanna has issued a public apology to the Muslim community for a “careless mistake” made in her Savage X Fenty fashion show.
Last Friday the fashion show launched on Amazon Prime and one of the songs which was used amongst the set was Coucou Chloe’s 2017 track .
One of the verses in the song it remixes hadith, which is a sacred text in Islam which is a record of sayings of the prophet Muhammad and his companions.
Following the show’s airing, many took to Twitter to share their disappointment in the singer.
as a muslim, no words can describe how disappointed i am with Rihanna for letting her models dance to hadith. Hadith are the sacred words of our prophet, you can’t just use it for your lingerie show. disgusting and extremely disrespectful
— dee⁷ (@kookdice) October 4, 2020
i can’t let Rihanna have a pass w appropriating Islam like for her first show the models wore a scarf around their heads and it looked like HIJAB and her second show she used a track that remixed a HADITH….why is no one talking about this, my religion is not y’all’s aesthetic
— . (@reversecocunut) October 4, 2020
On Tuesday, Rihanna issued a public apology on her Instagram thanking the Muslim community for bringing her attention to the mistake and referred to it as a “huge oversight”.
“I’d like to thank the Muslim community for pointing out a huge oversight that was unintentionally offensive in our savage x fenty show,” she said. “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!”
The fashion designer and beauty mogul also insisted she does not “play with any kind of disrespect toward God or any religion” and called the use of the song “completely irresponsible”.
rihanna’s apology to the muslim community. pic.twitter.com/xATuYfLMHX
— knee (@thickannawhore) October 6, 2020
“Moving forward we will make sure nothing like this ever happens again,” she added. “Thank you for your forgiveness and understanding, Rih.”
The artist of the song also issued a public apology and said she and her team were “in the process of having the song urgently removed from all streaming platforms”.
