DUBAI – Emirati singer Ahlam AlShamsi remarks about the Sridevi has stirredTwitter outrage.

She is causing online outrage after tweeting that fans in the Arab worldshould not ask for God’s mercy on the late Sridevi Kapoor as the Bollywoodicon “is Buddhist”.

Ahlam was responding to Emirati Author Abdullah Alneaimi’s tweet payingtribute to Sridevi, who recently passed away in Dubai, using the Islamicphrase “May God have mercy on her”.

“May God have mercy on her [sic] May God forgive,” Ahlam tweeted in replyto Alneaimi using an emoji to describe her shock.

Ahlam then used verses from the Quran as proof of why she thought so.

A forensic report from the Dubai Police showed she died of accidentaldrowning in her hotel room’s bathroom after losing consciousness.