{"id":48313,"date":"2018-10-26T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48313"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:08:06","slug":"legendary-international-singer-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/legendary-international-singer-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary international singer converts to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-48314\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shuhada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shuhada.jpg 636w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shuhada-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/>Outspoken Irish singer Sinead O&#8217;Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having adopted the name Magda Davitt last year, the 51-year-old is now called Shuhada Davitt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also changed her Twitter avatar to a black-and-white image of the Nike Swoosh logo and the slogan: &#8220;Wear a hijab. Just do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian&#8217;s journey,&#8221; she tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant. I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her Twitter account says the singer now lives in &#8220;Direland&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She recorded her first attempt at singing the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, just a few days ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s 1990 hit &#8220;Nothing Compares 2 U&#8221; became a global hit, with her haunting voice, shaved head and single-tone outfits turning her into both an enigmatic and captivating figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But her career began to falter after she tore up a picture of the late Pope John Paul II while appearing as a musical guest on US television in 1992.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said she was protesting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, but her gesture was roundly condemned in the media and she was eventually forced to apologise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet her fight against the Catholic Church continued, and in 1999 O&#8217;Connor was ordained as a priest by a breakaway church based in the French city of Lourdes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Catholicism does not sanction priesthood for women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">O&#8217;Connor told Billboard magazine in 2014 that she was still ordained but had stepped away from priesthood because &#8220;I&#8217;m not interested in causing more trouble than I already am&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/legendary-international-singer-converts-to-islam\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken Irish singer Sinead O&#8217;Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada. Having adopted the name Magda Davitt last year, the 51-year-old is now called Shuhada Davitt. She also changed her Twitter avatar to a black-and-white image of the Nike Swoosh logo and the slogan: &#8220;Wear a hijab. 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