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Earlier this week, Rihanna posted a statement on her Instagram story apologizing to the Muslim community after people noticed that a song used in the Savage X Funty show contained an Islamic scripture.
Although the song was removed, the situation sparked an anti-blackness wave on Twitter, prompting black Muslims to call for change.
The controversy started when people saw the song playing during a fashion show that started streaming on Amazon Prime on Oct. October.
In 2018, Chloe posted a now-deleted Facebook status where MC Carioca credits the original Brazilian song with 12 million views, dubbed “Tu Ta Moscando”. The hadith itself is about al-Harj, a moment near the end.
After the show began streaming, the Muslim community complained online with voices about the use of hadith in the song.
Please open these threads and educate yourself and spread this information to others !!! In fifty parts of Rihanna’s defense they showed the use of English Hadit and the song offered to many people !! They give Hadith a boost and put it to the music:
Mufti Wasim Khan, dean and director of the Academy of Islamic Sciences and Research Foundation who posts tickets under the handle of MuftiMWK, told BuzzFeed News that the department’s role in the show is too “obscure” for many scholars to use, and that the decision cannot be understood.
“I think a strong form of apology would have taken the whole show down.” “I think it would have made people say it’s not about growing a fanbase, but about being sensitive to religious values.”
After the reaction, Chloe apologized for using the sample and said that she was removing the song from different platforms. Rihanna also wrote an apology, “I thank the Muslim community for pointing me to a huge oversight that was inadvertently insulting in our reckless ex-fantasy show.”
“I want to apologize to you for this important, yet negligent mistake,” he said.
Over time, however, the controversy caused the community to become internally divided. Some non-black Muslims have started using controversy as a way to be racist towards black people.
When there are black Muslims, don’t you turn Rihanna, who is playing Hadith lessons in her fashion show, into an issue of Black vs Muslim ???
The creator of the black Muslim ticket ok, Jajiml reacted in a video after seeing the hatred spread on the line.
He told BuzzFeed News, “When I go to Twitter, I expect to see Muslim Twitter expressing its outrage over the incident.”
However, Jajmil said he was unfortunately not surprised, as he had previously experienced racism from black-Muslims. “There are people out there who see and see blackness as separate from Islam,” he said.
He decided to speak up because he wanted to use his platform by saying “that’s enough”.
He said, “Being a black Muslim I have to face Islamophobia and racism of non-Muslims. I should not face racism from my Muslim brothers and sisters.”
His video received 10,000 likes and was shared over 400 times. In it, he said, some people in the Muslim community other than Black are using it as an “opportunity to represent the Black Lives Matter”.
“It’s boring to be a black Muslim,” he said.
Many people replied that they feel like watching through Jajil’s video.
Others said those who were using the incident under the pretext of being racist were not respecting their faith.
Non-black Muslims also expressed sympathy for the way the situation was flowing.
Jajmil expressed frustration with the non-black Muslim community but also said that non-black Muslims who have apologized on behalf of others have been welcomed and appreciated.
He said they can work to be better collaborators and call racism when they see it.
“For those who say ‘we don’t claim them,’ I think that’s a way to fix the problem.” “If you know your friend, sibling or parent has an anti-black bias, try and correct them.”
