Founder of Inara Organics Nina Chua was called out on social media by a Miss Singapore 2018 Finalist for racist comments she made as, “I f**king hate the malay community (no offence)”.
In a series of Instagram stories on Thursday (March 10) and Friday (March 11), Ms Hani Nami shared a screenshot of Nina saying “I f*cking hate the malay community (no offence)”. She also shared messages with others calling out Nina’s racist behaviour.
According to another source, there are claims that Nina is “half malay”. In what appears to be a conversation between Hani and the said source, Hani explains that Nina’s offending remarks were made in reference to a SHOUT video that Hani was involved in.
According to Ms Hani’s Instagram stories, she wrote that Nina “talks bad about everyone, including [her] customers and the people who vouch for [her] and work for [her]”.
Responding to TISG’s queries, Ms Hani says that she knew Nina “from our conversations. She usually sees me as a confidant, but usually all the negative things of other people”.
She added: “We are not friends. We followed each other through social media, she followed me first, because we know people mutually. Never met her. If there’s an opportunity before, [I] wouldn’t”.
According to a screenshot shared with TISG, Nina wrote that she would love to see how retarded “these people are”.
Responding to the backlash, Nina Chua published a statement apologising. Explaining why she made the comments, she wrote that they were in response to a video published by shout.sg that featured 11 Singaporean Muslim women, including Ms Hani. In the video, the women divulged their personal views on topics of concern to the local Muslim community.
One of these topics that the video touched on, was the interaction between the LGTBQ+ community and Islamic practices.
Within a day of publication, the video was removed by shout.sg. Nina attributes this to “backlash from individuals within the Malay/Muslim Community who rejected the LGBTQ+ community.” She added that she did not agree with the decision.
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