Many videos are “offensive,” and usually when they involve religion, the target is Christianity. No one apologizes or is even asked to apologize. Are these offenses also “honest and careless mistakes?”
The normal reaction to videos when they are offensive, as is often expected, is to have an adult discussion about them, or simply don’t watch them if you’re offended. The popular American singer/songwriter Madonna’s obsession with mixing the crucifix and other symbols of the Christian religion with promiscuous sex is far worse than depicting Islamic texts in a fashion show, and although blogs have been written about Madonna’s conduct, there was never an uproar that would have (or could have) led to Madonna apologizing to the Christian community.
Lady Gaga also has been outright obscene in her use of the cross in videos. Had she committed the same level of offense of Islam, one can only imagine the fallout.
Until Westerners start treating Muslims like everyone else, Muslims will collectively maintain their supremacism, while the West sinks further into dhimmitude.
CTV news in Canada writes:
The hadith, a written record of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Mohammed and his closest companions, is considered extremely sacred to Muslims, and come secondary only to the Quran in terms of textual authority.
News flash: every religion’s texts are extremely sacred to them. The double standard, however, is not mentioned by CTV; nor is it in the report below.
“Rihanna apologizes to Muslim community after lingerie show plays sacred Islamic text,” Thomson Reuters, October 7, 2020:
Rihanna has apologized to the Muslim community, following an uproar against the inclusion of sacred Islamic texts at a lingerie show. Rihanna said the usage of those texts, which were part of a song played at her Amazon-prime streamed event, was an “honest yet careless mistake.”
“The use of the song in our project was completely irresponsible!” the singer wrote in a statement that appeared in her Instagram Stories, adding that she would “make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.”
Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty show included a section in which lingerie models danced to the song Doom by Coucou Chloe. The 2017 track includes a passage from the Hadith, a sacred text to Muslims that is revered as a record of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and actions.
“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 wrote. “I would more importantly like to apologize to you for this honest yet careless mistake. We understand that we may have hurt many of our Muslim brothers and sisters, and I’m incredibly disheartened by this!
“I do not play with any kind of disrespect toward God or any religion,” Rihanna continued, “and therefore the use of the song in our project was completely irresponsible! Moving forward we will make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. Thank you for your forgiveness and understanding,” she wrote, signing off: “RiH.”
In response to the show, some Instagram users expressed their displeasure. Wrote @nawalkimendhi: “I’ve 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 lingerie show? That’s beyond disrespectful and disappointing.”….