https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/entertai ... index.html(CNN)Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has announced her conversion to Islam, changing her name to Shuhada' Davitt.
"This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim," she wrote on Twitter on October 19. "This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant."
The singer added: "I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada'."
She spells her new name, which means "martyrs" in Arabic, with an apostrophe at the end.
Last year, O'Connor changed her name to Magda Davitt, a name she took to be "free of parental curses."
The "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer has replaced her Twitter profile picture with a photo that reads "Wear a hijab just do it" alongside the Nike logo.
Her recent posts have included her singing the Islamic call to prayer, the Azan, and depicted her wearing a hijab.
The 51-year-old has tweeted that she is "very, very happy," and apologized for mispronouncing some Arabic words during her recitation of the Azan.
Although her embrace of Islam attracted criticism and anti-Islamic remarks, it was broadly welcomed by fellow Muslims online.
"Salaam (a greeting that means "peace") and keep up the good work," said Immy Khan. "You have 1.7 billion brothers and sisters now."
Nothing Compares 2... Islam
Nothing Compares 2... Islam
The former Sinead O'Connor (the "intelligent theologian") now embraces Islam, the religion known for espousing liberal women's rights and free speech. Watch out, baldy. Any criticisms of your new peaceful religion will inevitably result in a stoning.
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It would be hard to beat her being ordained as a Catholic priest in 1999, but she has managed it.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Flailing around through life looking for that which she'll never find. Sad.
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I never liked her style nor her songs, this is making it even worse. I thought she was dead, confusing her with another similarly unpleasant female singer in her 50s.
Does she still technically have to wear a headscarf even if she has no hair to hide in order to be considered a good Muslim woman?
Maybe if we're lucky she'll sneak off to Syria and marry an ISIS fighter who will keep her locked away in a dusty house somewhere and far away from further desperate media attention-whoring.
Maybe if we're lucky she'll sneak off to Syria and marry an ISIS fighter who will keep her locked away in a dusty house somewhere and far away from further desperate media attention-whoring.
I live the good old fashioned bigotry on 440. Let's hope some Cham people don't move in next door to the bigots. I doubt any here would call out Sonny Bill Williams for being a Moslem if they met him in the street!
Nor Anthony 'in your face' Mundine.crazyjohn wrote:I live the good old fashioned bigotry on 440. Let's hope some Cham people don't move in next door to the bigots. I doubt any here would call out Sonny Bill Williams for being a Moslem if they met him in the street!
Re Sinead, she looks more at peace with herself as Magda Davitt.
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I thought her first album and some of her singles were fantastic. She has become very lost since. I find this clinging to various beliefs then changing them a few years later ridiculous but then I don't think she is at all well.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Cham people can be forgiven for being Muslim because they were raised as Muslims and most of them do not really take the religion all that seriously. Anyone who is middle aged and converts to Islam for any reason other than necessity is not altogether right in the head. I don't know how anyone could consider the crude tales in the Q'uran and the disgusting life of the Prophet to be sacred. The Bible is also full of such tall tales and the Old Testament isn't much more than a history of the crimes of the Old Hebrews. Yet Islam and Muslims make the Jews and Christians look almost tame and even sane by comparison.
A terminal 'dogma junkie', perhaps?Lucky Lucan wrote:...this clinging to various beliefs then changing them a few years later ridiculous but then I don't think she is at all well.
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She will be running out of religions soon, if she continues on this path. I remember that song, her one hitsong, reminds me of the times I could swallow alcohol for several days in a row, with no real consequence. She was on the mtv tele every hour, with her then cute face, and those scary starry eyes of hers. Iz all gone now.
She following the Cat Stevens model.newnewnewbie wrote:She will be running out of religions soon,
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European Court of Human Rights rules that you cannot call the Prophet Mohammed a pedophile even if he did have sex with a nine your old.
Europe has become a joke and the laughingstock of the whole world.
What are you thoughts, Mc Phisto?
European Court of Human Rights rules that you cannot call the Prophet Mohammed a pedophile even if he did have sex with a nine your old.
Europe has become a joke and the laughingstock of the whole world.
What are you thoughts, Mc Phisto?