Saudi Arabian officials are calling for the arrest of a femcee, alleging her new music video is blasphemous, according to Al Jazeera.

Although rapper Ayasel Slay is seen rapping in traditional Islamic headdress in her video for "Bint Mecca," her lyrics may be too modern to escape political persecution.

“A Mecca girl is all you need. Don’t upset her, she will hurt you,” she says, asserting that the women from the Saudi Arabian city are the most beautiful and rare.

In the song, the title of which translates to girl from Mecca, she raps about her pride in being from Mecca, while fashionably wearing tinted shades as back up dancers hit flawless choreography.

"With her, you can complete the Sunna [get married]/Your life with her will become Paradise," she raps in adherence with Islamic tradition.

But the Saudi government is pressuring her into taking her video offline, alleging it's sacrilegious. Authorities in Mecca are insisting on her arrest, saying that the barely 3-minute video on YouTube is an act of blasphemy against Islam, according to the Washington Post.

Prince Khalid bin Faisal, governor of Mecca province, tweeted that the video “offends the customs and traditions of the people of Mecca and contradicts the elevated identity and traditions of its sons."

But critics note that racial bias may also be at play.

“The consequences are not equaling the crime, because there is no crime there,” said Amani Al-Ahmadi, a Saudi activist in Seattle. “It’s obviously targeted against a woman who they feel doesn’t represent what Saudi and Mecca should be."

Ayasel is of Eritrean descent. Online backlash to her and her video has included the hashtag #You_Are_Not_Mecca's_Girls.

"Enough of this depravity," one person wrote, according to Al Jazeera. "I hope the punishment for this African woman will be imprisonment then deporting her back to her country."

According to Al-Ahmadi, the majority of Saudis are white, but Mecca and cities near the country’s western coast have forever been home to immigrants, especially from Muslim parts of East Africa.

It should be said that the video for “Mecca Girl” includes Black backup dancers while Ayasel raps about the beauty of dark-skinned women in particular.

“She’s white, shines like a lightbulb,” she says in the video. “She’s dark, her beauty stings."

Amid the controversy, Ayasel has deleted the video from her YouTube channel.

Aljeezera

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