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Posted by jennywill Monday, February 15, 2021

Starship Entertainment apologizes on controversy around I.M's solo teaser images + deletes all images in question

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Starship Entertainment apologized for the controversy around I.M's solo teaser images.


MONSTA X's I.M will be releasing his solo debut digital mini-album 'Duality'. In the teaser images, fans noticed that I.M was wearing a shirt with the inscription "Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim" in Arabic, which means is a sacred phrase for Muslims that translates to "In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious and The Most Merciful".


After hearing of the controversy, Starship Entertainment issued a formal apology, writing:

As stated, the label has also deleted all photos of I.M wearing the shirt in question.

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melalabanana
melalabanana946 pts Monday, February 15, 2021 14
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Honestly I think Korean are not familiar with Islam. I watched Youn Stay last week episode and there’s Arab muslim visitors who came there. As a muslim they cannot drink alcohol. But Youn’s team didn’t know about it. In fact Miss Youn even said they are missing the fun of life by not drinking alcohol. Lol. I am not surprised at all when she said this but I do wish they all have some knowledge about Islam especially when they are doing this staycation show involving tourist with different backgrounds.

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baddest_gizibe21211 pts Monday, February 15, 2021 3
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Why are there even clothes sold with these phrases on them in the first place? I feel like nowadays clothes with sayings in different languages shouldn’t be sold because people are just setting themselves up for failure.

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