Kanye West Catches Heat From Muslim Community for New YEEZY BOOST 350 V2
Kanye West’s ongoing “Israfil” adidas YEEZY BOOST 350 V2 discharge alongside the up and coming “Asriel” colorway are grabbing undesirable eye from the Muslim people group. For those uninformed, the colorways use the names of the Islamic holy messengers for music (Israfil) and passing (Asriel).
Many are taking to Twitter, and have even begun a request to blacklist the line of shoes. The request has just gathered more than 1,000 marks with many remarking that the colorway names are completely ill bred to Islam.
While this isn’t the first run through religion was utilized as motivation for a shoe colorway, the Internet is demonstrating that strict figures ought to be kept separate from tennis shoe structure.
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— Reaction Bae (@ReactBae) August 23, 2020
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He is sick and needs help. Adidas has done nothing to make this situation any better.
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Latest controversy#KanyeWest new shoe named 'Israfil'
In #Islam, Israfil is known to be the angel that will blow a trumpet to mark the ultimate end of the world.
Naming a shoe after a significant Angel of God, in the Islamic religion, is highly disrespectful.@MuslimAdvocates pic.twitter.com/D2s8qhkGwe— Azra_H (@azra_hhh) August 19, 2020
"@FELASTORY: #Raphael (#Israfil in Arabic) the angel of the trumpet responsible for signaling the coming of Judgment Day. #Azrael (#Azra’il in Arabic, also called Malak al-Maut, literally “angel of death”). Taking the soul of the dead to heaven or hell. #Yeezy #adidas 😍😍 pic.twitter.com/PiLIhpKiGX
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