Sinéad O'Connor Reveals She's Converted to Islam: 'I Am Proud to Have Become a Muslim'
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Maria Pasquini
PeopleOctober 25, 2018
Sinéad O’Connor has a new religion — and a new name.
Last week, the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer, revealed on Twitter that she had converted to Islam.
“This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim,” O’Connor wrote on Oct. 19, explaining that her new faith “is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey.”
“All scripture leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant,” she added, before revealing she would henceforth be known by a new name. “I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada.'”
In addition to changing her name on her Twitter page, the singer also replaced her profile picture with a photo that reads “Wear a hijab just do it” alongside the Nike swoosh logo. Additionally, her Twitter bio now reads, “PLEASE BE AWARE THAT IF YOU POST RACIST OR ANTI MUSLIM RHETORIC ON THIS PAGE YOU WILL BE BLOCKED.”
One day later, the Irish singer shared that she had been given her first hijab, writing that she wouldn’t be sharing a photo because it’s “intensely personal,” before humorously adding that there was a second reason she wouldn’t be posting a photo.
“I’m an ugly old hag,” she wrote. “But I’m a very, very, very happy old hag.”
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This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant. I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada’
11:42 AM - Oct 19, 2018
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My best friend, Elaine just gave me my 1st Hijab and she got chills all over her body when I put it on. Not gonna post a photo because is intensely personal. And I’m an ugly old hag. But I’m a very, very, very happy old hag.
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Over the next couple of days, the Irish singer went on to share a number of photos of herself wearing a head covering, simply writing that she was “happy.”
In one of the images, she stood in front of a sign that read: “You have taken my body, you have taken my mind, you have taken my children but you will never take my voice.”
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Happy
10:03 AM - Oct 23, 2018
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Practicing her Arabic skills, she went on to post an emotional video as she sang the Azan, a call to worship, for the first time.
Apologizing for her pronunciation mistakes, she explained that “emotions took me from my page…but they’ll be hundreds of others onstage to come.”
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Here is my 1st attempt at singing the Azan. I got some pronouncition wrong because emotions took me from my page... but there’ll be hundreds of others onstage to come ... https://youtu.be/VJ0RdoiSZgk
4:01 PM - Oct 19, 2018
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“Once I’ve practiced the Azan a hundred times I promise I’ll sing it much better than the one I’ve posted,” she added on Thursday.
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The musician was ordained as a priest in 1999 in a dissident Roman Catholic group.
She has previously spoken out against the abuses of the Catholic Church, even ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a Saturday Night Live appearance in 1992.
Pain and hardships allow you to grow spiritually Alhamdulilah so smile when a so called calamity befalls upon you.
Alhamdulilah Allah swt is the greatest.
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Well, we can only hope this is sincere, and that she finds what she is looking for.
The poor woman has had issues with mental health and addictions.
I am part Irish with some family in Ireland. They are strange people of extremes. Everyone grows up singing and playing musical instruments, and they produce some of the best writers and poets the world has seen, but they are melancholic, restless, and always searching for meaning. They are prone to depression and self-destruction. In the case of Sinead, the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long--by the time she was a teenager, she was a great talent, but she burned out.
I hope she can find peace in Islam just as Cat Stevens did
Re: Sinéad O'Connor Reveals She's Converted to Islam: 'I Am Proud to Have Become a Mu
MaShaaAllah
May Allah keep her firm in the straight path
And what a beautiful name Shuhada
Jabir bin 'Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:'A slave (of Allah) shall not believe until he believes in Al-Qadar, its good and its bad, such that he knows that what struck him would not have missed him, and that what missed him would not have struck him." (Jami 'at Tirmidhi)
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Well, we can only hope this is sincere, and that she finds what she is looking for.
The poor woman has had issues with mental health and addictions.
I am part Irish with some family in Ireland. They are strange people of extremes. Everyone grows up singing and playing musical instruments, and they produce some of the best writers and poets the world has seen, but they are melancholic, restless, and always searching for meaning. They are prone to depression and self-destruction. In the case of Sinead, the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long--by the time she was a teenager, she was a great talent, but she burned out.
I hope she can find peace in Islam just as Cat Stevens did
O ye who believe! save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones
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