The Caribbean trendsetter is well known for many things, from creating a brand that embodies inclusivity to making fans linger for an album after a 4-year drought.

However, recently the 32-year-old fashion mogul came under fire for something utterly distasteful; Islamophobia.

Fenty Beauty, a makeup brand founded by Rihanna has been breaking ceilings ever since its launch. Whether it is bringing about a revolution in the shades of foundations and concealers or instilling the true spirit of representation of different bodies on runways, Fenty has got it all. 

People were all in for RiRi and her mind-blowing initiatives until the infamous Savage X Fenty Lingerie fashion show that was held recently where models were seen cat-walking to the beats of a song called Doom.

What does a song named Doom have to do with Islamophobia, you ask?

Well, the catch is, Doom is a song composed by Coucou Chloe who used highly autotuned yet distinctly audible phrases of a peculiar Hadith talking about the Day of Judgement and the Last Hour. Hadith are sacred Islamic records of the words spoken by the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). They are meant to be held in high regard and protected from any kind of alteration.

Once, netizens watched the fashion show online, they quickly noticed this offensive act. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook; almost every other social media outlet you could think of exploded with a mix of anger, antipathy, and concern demanding Rihanna for an answer. Many users were appalled by the misuse of religious text and the lack of thorough checking of content which is being publicized to the media. Others simply felt exhausted by constantly feeling the need to protect their religion from adulteration.

Although Rihanna has now gone out of her way and issued an official statement apologizing for her “unintentionally offensive” mistake, quite a few people are simply not impressed.

The fact that Islamic religious structures and scriptures are blatantly misused by popular artists still stands and is nothing new. Many celebs have done it in the past and some continue to do so and apologize for it by passing the buck to their PR team who must have “missed the error”.

The real question is, When will this stop? 

When will people understand that just as the Bible and the Holy Trinity, the Quran and Hadith are sacred for Muslims and must not be tampered with?

Can we live to see the word “Islamophobia” being removed from the Webster Dictionary once and for all?

We can only hope for all these things to happen one day, Insha Allah.