As Hugh Fitzgerald has often noted, Islam attracts the psychically marginal, for it provides a total explanation of the universe, taking away the difficult necessity of making moral decisions on one’s own. Islamic apologists often criticize Christianity for offering only “vague moral precepts,” comparing it unfavorably to Islam, which has a rule for everything that human beings can imagine doing. It is understandable that this total regulation of life would appeal to someone who has suffered from mental problems, as Sinead O’Connor has so publicly. That makes this a sad story. It is not, as O’Connor, aka Shuhada’ Davitt, “the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey”; if that were the case, there would be a steady stream of intelligent theologians converting to Islam, and it has yet to be proven that Sinead O’Connor is either intelligent or a theologian. It is much more obviously the ruthless exploitation of an emotionally unstable woman, and that is a shame.
“Sinead O’Connor converts to Islam, changes name to Shuhada’ Davitt,” by Debbie McGoldrick, IrishCentral, October 25, 2018:
We’ll always know her best as Sinead O’Connor, but now she’s got yet another new name, Shuhada’ Davitt, and a new religion, Islam.
Shuhada’, also previously known as Magda, revealed on Twitter last week that she’s ditched the Catholic Church for good. You’ll remember many moons ago that she was an ordained priest in a breakaway Catholic sect and used to walk around in a priestly collar, but no more.
“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’,” Sine…sorry, Shuhada’, tweeted.
Shuhada’, who underwent intensive mental health treatment in the U.S. last year with help from Dr. Phil, posted a video of herself singing the Azan, the Muslim call to prayer. Her voice is still in fine form, but she lamented her performance.
“Here is my 1st attempt at singing the Azan. I got some pronouncition (sic) wrong because emotions took me from my page… but there’ll be hundreds of others onstage to come …,” she wrote. “When I’ve practiced it 30 times i’m Gonna make the world stop turning.”
She’s rocking some Muslim garb too as you can see from the photo. “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,” Shuhada’ proclaimed….
Don Davenport says
Sinead and Islam deserve each other.
mortimer says
This is solid proof that O’Connor is not merely flakey, but bonkers. She is off her meds. And this deluded soul thought that the RCC was ‘misogynistic’ and full of pedophiles?
Just wait till you discover the pedophilia and misogyny in Islam, Sinead. It’s ten times worse than the RCC.
Sinead, how do you explain SLAVERY in Islam ?… most of the revenue in Muslim countries prior to abolition came from the slave trade.
Sinead, why do you endorse the genocidal rape of MARRIED CAPTIVES in Koran 4.23-24??? How can a modern woman endorse GENOCIDAL RAPE? She cannot. You cannot, Sinead.
christianblood says
Why are you so hateful to Sinead’s conversion to Saudi Arabian Wahhabi islam which is the islam that is allied with the US?
Raja says
CB, Why are you so prejudiced against Wahhabism when any Ism in Islam is just as ugly with the exception of Sufism perhaps?
gravenimage says
christianblood wrote:
Why are you so hateful to Sinead’s conversion to Saudi Arabian Wahhabi islam which is the islam that is allied with the US?
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What is christianblood babbling about here? Where does it say what branch of Islam the witless Sinead O’Connor converted to? Not that it matters–they are all hideous.
And his constantly pretending that Anti-Jihadists here at Jihad Watch are pro-Sunni Wahhabi Islam is just ludicrous–can he find a *single* contributor or poster here who has ever taken such a stance? I have never seen anyone.
Meanwhile, of course, he continues to laud the horrors of Shia Islam, even saying “God bless Hezbollah!” many times, *Ugh*. He has also claimed that all the savagery of Islam in Iran should be applauded because it is just brave “resistance” to the evil United States.
nabi ZK (pbum) says
CB. We are allied with Saudi because of the petrodollar, making us the world reserve currency. That is different from believing in mohametanism of any stripe or wishing it on anyone, even a has been rock star like sinead. I see no contradiction. But thanks for your little propaganda tidbit. I noticed that Putin is all in a lather about Mohamed Bone Saw being such a meanie to journalists, when he, Putin, has also killed lots of journos and political opponents. So Russia is not clean either. I’m not claiming to be holier than thou. But foreign affairs are not often governed by morality.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Almost ALL converts to islam in the Western world convert to Sunni/Wahhabist Saudi Arabian Islam which is simply the dominant and the overwhelming majority of islam which is over 92 percent of all Muslims! Secondly, the Sunni/Wahhabist Saudi Arabian Islam, involves the most aggressive and the most powerful proselytizing effort to convert non-muslims into islam in the Western world!
mgoldberg says
Aren’t you the one who praises Hizbollah and Hamas?? I might have you mistaken for another but that aside…She is now going from a critic of the abuses of Christianity taken by celibate priests who abuse children, women, to a devotee of a ‘prophet’ who pronounced as holy his acts of rape, torture, slaughter and the abuse of ‘all others’ who do not submit.
Ah well… I don’t think that will ruffle your feathers, but when O’Connor figures that one out, she’ll want to scream, but then…. Islam doesn’t let anyone leave the ‘faith’ even if they do figure it out. Then she’ll have something to really cry about.
christianblood says
Raja
Even some forms of Sufi islam is okay with dominating non-muslims through violent jihad! I understand, in India and to lesser extant in Pakistan there are obviously some very peaceful and enlightened Sufi orders that combine Sufism with elements of Hinduism but many Sufi orders in Arabia and other parts of the Islamic world will have no problems of approving violent jihad! Concerning the Shiites, aside with the US’s hysterical propaganda against Iran, Shiites (Shiite people) are by large very peaceful folks when it comes to coexisting with other religious groups. For instance, you will NEVER hear a freelance Shiite jihadist group attacking and bombing churches or Hindu temples or beheading infidels on video anywhere in the world whereas this is a daily occurrence when it comes to Sunni/Wahhabi/Saudi Arabian/ISIS/Al-Qaeda form of Islam!
christianblood says
mgoldberg
Hamas is a muslim brotherhood terrorist organization, as for Hezbollah, I never ‘praised’ Hezbollah I only stated the FACT that Hezbollah is NOT a terrorist organization but juts like Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah is an indigenous Shiite militia formed to RESIST the US, Saudi, Israeli, ISIS, Al-Qaeda allies from destroying Lebanon and mass-murdering religious minorities there like the did in Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Syria through their proxy jihadist terror groups! If Hezbolah was not there today, Christians, Shiites, Druzes and Yazidis would have been slaughtered by the US, Israeli and Saudi-backed ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorists like they did in all the countries that I mentioned above! You have to understand that US, Saudis and Israelis DON’T give a dime what happens to all the minorities that I mentioned above!
christianblood says
Nabi ZK
You made some fair points, Nabi!
But will you still be allied with the head-chopping Saudi/ISIS/Wahhabi/Islamists for Petrodollar reasons even if they are going to nuke you? Where will you draw the (moral) line? Is there NO morality in your political decisions? What about all that “exceptional” preaching of ‘democracy’, human ‘rights’ and ‘LGBTQ’ rights around the world that you so fanatically involve?
mgoldberg says
your reply to my reply did not include a reply button. To whit: Israel took care of their minorities even as the muslim one’s all call for the submission of and erasure of Israel as a Jewish nation- which all Islam rallies around as it forbids others from ruling anywhere where Islam exists.
Israel shows moral courage, Islam and your Iran show how to march 25,000 of their young as they did against Iraq in the 80’s to their deaths with banners to die in the marshes to save soldiers. Grotesque. Just like all of Jihad- what is the muslim declaration, ‘you love life, we love death’
And death they bring to all others, and whine and complain when they don’t win, declaring satanic evil forces against them
gravenimage says
Yes, Sunni Islam is the dominant form of Islam world-wide–so just statistically, most converts world-wide convert to Sunni Islam. But I doubt many of these converts are even much aware of the various sects of Islam.
And this is not, as christianblood pretends, just the case in the Western world–90% of Muslims in Russia are Sunni, as well.
“Convert and love: Russia’s Muslim wives”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/ekaterina-neroznikova/convert-and-love-russia-s-muslim-wives
More from christianblood:
mgoldberg
Hamas is a muslim brotherhood terrorist organization, as for Hezbollah, I never ‘praised’ Hezbollah…
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Actually, christianblood has many times said “God bless Hezbollah!”, which is not just praise, but the highest praise imaginable.
And saying that they are not a terrorist organization is absurd. This only makes sense if you do not consider attacks on Israel to be terrorism, as christianblood does not appear to.
And I see he is again praising Hezbollah’s destruction of Christian Lebanon–which he claims was necessary to save them from Israel.
But Israel was no threat to Christian Lebanon, and only responded once Muslims were able to use Lebanon as a base from which to wage Jihad against her.
gravenimage says
True, LameBear and mgoldberg.
Soren Kuula says
It’s the nation that is in a limited alliance with the US. Not the Islam. But nice try.
christianblood says
gravenimage
I did say God bless Hezbollah for protecting Christians in Syria and Lebanon from the murderous US, Saudi and Israeli-backed islamic terrorists like ISIS, Al-Qaeda and others and I have no problem saying it again!
gravenimage says
Of course christianblood has no problem lauding Hezbollah’s destroying Christian Lebanon and efforts to wipe out democratic Israel. I doubt it is the last time he will do so, either. *Ugh*.
Krishan Bhattacharya says
Sinead and her family deserve better.
Taylor says
Everyone deserves better than Islam. Islam feeds off self hate, and that’s why self hating lefties pander to it.
j_not_a says
I don’t think she’ll be allowed to keep shaving her head.
Lor says
That’s a good one!!
abad says
No but she will have to shave her pubic hair.
6woods says
She’ll be lucky if that’s all she has to shave. Maybe she’ll have to undergo more intensive shaving, as per FGM.
eduardo odraude says
She’ll be an elite Muslim allowed to do whatever she wants, because she has money, fame, and Western citizenship. She will be coddled and sheltered and ass-kissed by Muslims from here to eternity. And she’ll think Islam is wonderful. For a while. I doubt the dalliance will last though. But who knows.
t says
Right on, edouardo!
Peggy says
The fact that she shaves her head shows how bonkers she really is.
No sane woman would ever convert to Islam. I wouldn’t even consider dating a Muslim and made sure my daughters saw “Not without my daughter”.
esthr says
So true——this event PROVES that muslims will ACCEPT ANYTHING as
a bonafide muslimah. She is now—-BY DEFINITION under Shariah law—
“superior”—socially and intellectually, to all kaffirahs. Her testimony in court—
is worth half that of a muslim man—–and completely negates that of kaffir with
an IQ of 200
mortimer says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_EmkQj04E
Anne Smith says
Seems “Dr Phil” was unsuccessful.
gravenimage says
‘Fraid so…
Peggy says
Can’t win them all.
A whole team of psychiatrists wouldn’t be successful.
FYI says
She’ll have to stop singing..
…..because if allah catches anyone listening to her singing..
“On the day of resurrection allah
will pour molten lead into the ears
of whoever sits listening to a songstress”
{Reliance of the Traveller,umdat al-salik r40.1}
So no more singing luv!
allah,the moslem god of obtuseness, says NO.
{God,however,says YES}
A duet with Yusuf Islam(mr cat stevens) will probably be out unless a burqa is worn.And of course allah curses musical instruments too,calling them sinful{so hard to have a musical band in islam!!}When cat became yusuf he had to give up music:Ridiculous!The Judeo-Christian Biblical God is fine with music.
Did David not play the lute?Didn’t the Mother of Christ Sing?
But allah can’t cope with music:but then he can’t cope with languages{other than arabic} either
Seriously, stay AWAY from islam….she probably doesn’t even know about islam’s attitude to female singers and music.
ElderlyZionist says
She doesn’t think The Rules will apply to her. She’ll learn. I saw comments posted to this same interview on a British website from Muslim readers who politely asked their beloved new Sister Shuhada *not* to sing the Azan or post any more music videos ‘cuz INNOVATION very very bad thing. Others won’t be so polite.
Anybody heard from Lindsey Lohan lately?
PRCS says
Not a peep.
Must be in a kitchen, somewhere.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
LOL!
gravenimage says
Lindsay Lohan has been wearing a Hijab:
https://nypost.com/2018/02/20/lindsay-lohan-steps-out-in-a-hijab/
eduardo odraude says
Some rules will be asked of her, but mostly she will be sheltered from them because she has money, fame, and Western citizenship. She can use those to arrange her situation to her liking and deceive herself that others in the Islamic world are as free as she is.
mortimer says
What was Mohammed’s attitude to SINGING WOMEN? He killed them. Especially slaves who were doing the bidding of someone else. No big deal for HEARTLESS MOHAMMED.
“He (Abdullah b. Khatal) had two singing-girls Fartana and her friend who used to sing satirical songs about the apostle, so he ordered that they should be killed with him. Another was al-Huwayrith b. Nuqaydh b. Wahb b. Abd b. Qusayy, one of those who used to insult him in Mecca.” (Pages 550-551)
Muslims argue that Islam forbids the killing of women during wartime. Historical facts prove otherwise.
Not only were two slave girls ordered to be murdered by Muhammad, but their crime was as trivial as singing some songs
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“Fartana”? Is that name for real, or is it a joke? It seems to be real. At least, a search on that name leads to this hour-long video, which begins with lively (haram?) music (what language is it in?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix6HAx8mJkk
Donzo says
its for fun, obviously.
eduardo odraude says
Fartana was indeed the name of a slave girl in Muhammad’s time.
Not surprising that a name like that could appear in another language. I doubt it’s used much any more, though, what with the near universalization of English.
j_not_a says
Her music career has been over for a long time anyway. Shame, though. She has (had) one of the most powerful, unique voices I’ve ever heard.
gravenimage says
True, j_not_a. What a waste.
J_not_a says
Just go to YouTube and watch/listen to “Troy”. Sends shivers down my spine still to this day.
j_not_a says
Just watch her on YouTube doing “Troy” it sends shivers down my spine still.
j_not_a says
Sorry for the double post. The first time I heard Sinead sing “Troy”, it made such an impression on me, I still remember when and where I was.
gravenimage says
True, j_not_a. That video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4v7fp5GC8
I had not heard it for some years.
eduardo odraude says
Same with Cat Stevens. He was a powerful musician and himself sounded a bit like a prophet because he sang and wrote with such conviction. Sad loss he was to Yusuf Islam, who shows that being good in one area is no guarantee whatsoever that one is good in anything else. One of the lessons Socrates tried to teach us a long time ago.
gravenimage says
True, Eduardo. Some of Cat Stevens’ stuff was pretty silly, but some of his work was really good.
The first song I listened to when I was accepted at UC Berkeley and got off the street was Cat Stevens’ “Oh Very Young”. I was just 17, and it was something of an anthem for me then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6B9HttRI8
abad says
I’ve never been a fan of her or her music, it seems like she is a has been, and converted to Islam just for the publicity. Maybe.
Raja says
Abad, Maybe you are right. Some are so enslaved to the lust of fame that they just cannot keep quiet. e.g: Cinema stars tend to take up political potshots and membership when on the wane.
In this case, this lady might be too wobbly a leftist or a liberal.
t says
If Prince was still here, he would have rebuked her!
gravenimage says
Singing is un-Islamic. Sinead O’Connor has long been deeply troubled but has a beautiful voice. I doubt we’ll hear much of it unless she leaves Islam–and then she will be in danger as an apostate.
Here’s perhaps her best-known song:
“Nothing Compares 2U”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
Her voice is haunting, and even with her hair barely growing back she is still stunningly beautiful.
j_not_a says
Prince wrote “Nothing Compares 2 U” but Sinead did do a great job with it.
gravenimage says
True.
shosh says
L-rd please silence every lying voice and send Your Word to teach her the Way, the Truth and the Life, by the Power of Your Name Yeshua and Your Life You gave for her. Thank You Most High G-d of Israel, Your Eternal Name, Avinu Malkeinu amein
Arthur says
Indeed, losing another soul to Islam is a gain only for the devil and a loss to everyone else.
EVILSPEAK says
First time I’ve approved of the Burka being worn. The silly eejit.
JH says
Anyone who converts has to be a peado or delusional.
People know what the scum stand for so why they convert beats logic unless they are sick in the head.
Eur says
Depressive people are easy prey for sects.
Rufolino says
Never a truer word spoken !
Noel Anderson says
She always was a strange one, good singer , but odd…..
mortimer says
“He (Abdullah b. Khatal) had two singing-girls Fartana and her friend who used to sing satirical songs about the apostle, so he ordered that they should be killed with him. Another was al-Huwayrith b. Nuqaydh b. Wahb b. Abd b. Qusayy, one of those who used to insult him in Mecca.” (Pages 550-551)
Muslims argue that Islam forbids the killing of women during wartime. Historical facts prove otherwise. Not only were two slave girls ordered to be murdered by Muhammad, but their crime was as trivial as singing some songs
j_not_a says
I heard she’d been diagnosed with bipolar a while back. Maybe she was not taking her meds regularly or stopped them completely. That’s the sad part, sometimes people start feeling better and decide they don’t need them anymore. Big mistake. Since I was diagnosed with BP over 15 years ago, I have my ups and downs but I’ve NEVER stopped with my medications, worst thing you can do.
gravenimage says
Wise words.
Peggy says
Can you imagine being her parent?
It would kill me. Not only has she ruined her earthly life but also her heavenly one too.
Jan says
“…. But I’m a very, very, very happy old hag,” Shuhada’ proclaimed….”
Well let’see how long your happiness lasts when your “brothers” have tajen over your country. It looks like you are totally ignorant about the position of women under islam. Good luck with your happiness. Cherish it as long as it lasts !!
Canadian Deplorable says
She does know that music is haram in islam, right?
Canadian Deplorable says
She does know that music is haram, right?
MIchael Laudahn says
Maybe worthwhile to check the ones she follows (on her Twitter account): There are only 7, and 2 of them are Kerem Aşır and Ali Osman Yüksel…
Tom says
She, with all her mental problems, and Islam are a perfect fit. I hope she is able to find peace at last, although knowing how women are degraded and treated in Islam, I very much doubt it.
If she is into self abuse then she has chosen wisely in converting to Islam, where she may REALLY be able to get stoned.
mortimer says
Tom, a mullah in the US who studied conversions into Islam found that the average new convert to Islam LEFT ISLAM after about 19 months.
That’s when the TRUTH of Islam sinks in … the arrogance of Salafists, the misogyny, the Arab-supremacism and Arab-racism, the pornography addiction, the brutality, the monumental ignorance of the world around, the Jew hatred, the constant taqiyya, the closed-mindedness.
With the Irish so sensitive to brutality, I do not think Sinead will last two years in this BRUTALITY CULT.
When Sinead leaves Islam … and she will … (she is too moral for amoral Islam) … Sinead may turn to absolute despair. Her psychiatrist should reach out to her and monitor her closely.
Tom says
Mortimer I totally agree that she needs and has been crying out for help for years. Her psychiatrist doesn’t seem to have helped her to date but better psychiatry than Islam for a mental condition of self abuse and self degradation. Although given the abusive nature of Islam she may just find her niche. In any event I wish her well.
gravenimage says
+1
Carol the 1st says
People who persevere and manage to do productive things despite being afflicted with serious, crippling mental illness are to be admired. “Don’t judge a book by its cover” can be applied to Sinead and I imagine she’s smart enough to eventually apply this in regard to Islam.
Her version of Sacrifice by Elton John is one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGZqnOpC3s
If Not Now When says
Wow. What a score. Conscripting a known severely mentally ill woman. I guess they didn’t realize she is broke. Dr Phil = Fail.
Terry sullivan says
Sinead has been bonkers for years–sad really as she had/has a beautiful voice
Islam attracts the psychotics as it is a mental illness
nicu says
@ Terry Sullivan : that’s why all criminal Muslims get low punishment cos they are ” mentally ill ” :/
In China they say Islam is a contagious disease !
Don McKellar says
Islam was designed to appeal greatly to three main groups: disaffected young dullards searching for purpose (the front line of violent jihad), corrupt and perverted old rich bastards (the bankroll behind violent jihad), and mentally unstable women (the willing subservients to the first two which makes them feel powerful). She fits right in.
Phil Copson says
So this daft baggage who spent so much time telling the world about the abuse she suffered as a child – (her mother denies it…) – is now a fully paid-up convert to an ideology that sanctifies, er….child-abuse ?
“Good thinking, Bat-man!” – says nobody at all….
Uriah Sheep says
Just in time to welcome the one million muslim migrants that her gay, Hindu Prime Minister agreed with the EU to bring into Ireland from now up to 2040.
PRCS says
Like your handle.
Cicero says
You are inaccurate. Leo Varadka is Dual heritage – white mother / Indian father. It is not apparent that either him or his father was Hindu.
By the way the you use the word “Hindu “ it comes across as an insulting term. Was that your intention Uriah Sheep ?
If that is the case then are you aware that many Hindus visit Jihad Watch and support the Anti-Jihad movement.
A lot of them are getting tired of the insults hurled against Hinduism and her followers by so called “Christians “.
Why abuse /insult Hindus on a website set up for fighting Islamic Jihad .
Why not set up a site and call it Hindu watch so that you and your fellow believers can vomit your bile on the world’s one billion Hindus ?
Kufar1 says
on the good side, linsay lohan seems to have backed off islam.
mortimer says
Most leave in less than two years … the time it takes to see many of the flaws and Islam’s thoroughgoing amorality.
gravenimage says
Janet Jackson got out, as well–last year at just about this time:
“Janet Jackson ‘felt like a prisoner’ in marriage to Muslim”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/10/janet-jackson-felt-like-a-prisoner-in-marriage-to-muslim
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Is she in hiding or does she rely on an expensive security detail?
gravenimage says
Flavius, I’m not sure whether Janet Jackson actually converted to Islam–or just married a Muslim. I’m just glad she got out of that abusive marriage.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
A large number of Mohammadans believe that an unbeliever woman automatically becomes a Mohammadan when she marries a Mohammadan man – explicit conversion or not. (A subset even believes that a woman is converted when she has sex – even non-consensual – with a Mohammadan.) So, she’s viewed as being part of the uhma.
What’s more, to the balance of the uhma, her comments are a violation of Mohammadan blasphemy laws.
My guess is both: in hiding and an expensive security detail.
gravenimage says
True, Flavius.
Dum Spiro says
Fight the real enemy.
From within…
— Spero
Benedict. says
She can convert to any religion in the world, but she will always be mentally insane. She herself does not know whether she is coming in or going out. Half the time she talks nonsense, but I guess in her twisted mind what she is saying and doing is alright. That is mentally insane. She is dangerous to herself and to other around her. Being locked up and staying indoors is the best bet I whish her peace.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
The woman has taken very good decision by embracing Islam to restore her diginity as human being, not savagery of Stone age way of life revived in mithraist christian west to look like monkey.
mortimer says
Top scholars say Mithraism had no influence on Christianity …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlF0gVedODE
FYI says
He doesn’t get it…he doesn’t want to get it.
Besides,that “mithraist” Bible he keeps attacking, was,according to the koran k3:3 written by..
allah.
islam’s stone age god hu-baal
mortimer says
Ibrahim, Muslims are intellectually lazy, bullies and cowards like you. The lazily make extravagant claims as you do WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE or REFERENCES and then like big COWARDS (that you are) they simply RUN AWAY FROM DEBATE.
You are a bully and a big COWARD, are you not, Ibrahim? A COWARD … and intellectually LAZY which is one of the worst things a person can be.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mortimer, refer Bart Erhman’s work “when Jesus became God”and that of Helen Ellerbe to know that the core Christian doctrines of Godman and begotten son of God came from paganism, mainly mithraism.
Elisha says
Is that the same Bart Ehrman who says, like EVERY serious scholar concerning recorded history, that the CRUCIFIXION of Jesus Christ at Calvary is the MOST CERTAIN FACT of history? Why did they crucify him, bacon boy? I’ll have to show you, since you’re too afraid to read the Bible:
For this reason therefore THE JEWS WERE SEEKING ALL THE MORE TO KILL HIM, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, MAKING HIMSELF EQUAL WITH GOD. – John 5:18
The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, BUT FOR BLASPHEMY; and because You, being a man, MAKE YOURSELF OUT TO BE GOD.” – John 10:33
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and BY THAT LAW HE OUGHT TO DIE BECAUSE HE MADE HIMSELF OUT TO BE GOD.” – John 19:7
At His trial:
Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.” Tearing his clothes, the high priest said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? “YOU HAVE HEARD THE BLASPHEMY; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be DESERVING OF DEATH. – Mark 14:61-64
The Jews knew that ONLY God rides upon the clouds, THAT is why they killed Him! It’s ALL OVER the Old Testament! Why are you SO BLIND?
“I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. – Daniel 7:13
The Son (Jesus Christ) came up to the Ancient of Days (the Father). The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD IS RIDING ON A SWIFT CLOUD and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them. – Isaiah 19:1
He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; HE MAKES THE CLOUD HIS CHARIOT; He walks upon the wings of the wind. – Psalm 104:3
“Behold, he goes up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!” – Jeremiah 4:13
Jesus Christ in the New Testament:
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” – John 8:56-58
Are we learning yet?
Jesus shows us His ONENESS with His Father:
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on YOU KNOW HIM, AND HAVE SEEN HIM.”
Philip said to Him, “LORD, SHOW US THE FATHER, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? HE WHO HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.” – John 14:7-10
Jesus Christ is not God? Really? Let’s see, using your own book …
Quran:
Whatever is in the heavens and earth exalts Allah , and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise. His is the dominion of the heavens and earth. He gives life and causes death, and He is over all things competent. He is the FIRST AND THE LAST, the Ascendant and the Intimate, and He is, of all things, Knowing. – 57:1-3
Holy Bible:
“Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel,
And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
‘I am the FIRST AND I AM THE LAST;
Besides Me there is no God. – Isaiah 44:6
The Revelation of JESUS CHRIST, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John … And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the FIRST AND THE LAST. I AM HE WHO LIVES, and WAS DEAD, and BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.” – Revelation 1:1,17-18
ONLY God can claim this title. The Quran CONFIRMS the Bible:
And let the PEOPLE OF THE GOSPEL JUDGE BY WHAT ALLAH HAS REVEALED THEREIN. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed – then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient. – 5:47
NO ONE can change God’s word:
And recite, [O Muhammad], what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord. There is NO CHANGER OF HIS WORDS, and never will you find in other than Him a refuge. – 18:27
Therefore, if the Bible is false, the quran is FALSE, because the quran CONFIRMS the Bible. If the Bible is true, the quran is FALSE, because the quran CONTRADICTS the Bible. There is NO changer of allah’s words. MUSLIMS CANNOT DENY THIS!!
IRREFUTABLE PROOF JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY TRUE LIVING GOD, AS CONFIRMED BY THE QURAN!!!
Game. Set. Match.
lagitane says
Who cares about nitpicking early Christianity? Even Stone Age European peoples had higher functioning social structures than Islam. They evolved tool making and ways of hunting; what major inventions has Islam given us besides specialized knives to destroy a young girl’s genitalia and sense of self? Islam is pure cruelty and there is little evidence to think “cavemen” stoned and abused women the way Islam does. Muslims worship the devil and may their “prophet” rot in hell for the sins Islam has reigned down upon others in the last 1,400 years.
Save Europe says
Ibrahim – she’s genuinely mentally ill, so she certainly will fit in well with your Death Cult ?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Save Europe, she is now mentally fit being cured from insanity due to possession by the satan you call Holy Spirit. All devout mithraist christians suffer from mental illness due to contact with Satan. Look at savage mad devil Trump, he looks like wild animal. Save Europe abandone pagan mithraist christianity inspired by the satan and embraced Islam to be cured from mental infirmity.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that opposing the rape of women and children, slavery, and mass slaughter is “inspired by the satan”.
mortimer says
Ibrahim … you have committed the ETERNAL SIN … no forgiveness…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrp7cMDCZgs
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Elisha, are you aware that these verses from John and Mark relied upon to establish these pagan doctrines of Godman and begotten son of God have been expunged from your Mithraist Bible as fabrications and interpolations in the New Revised standard version by Eminent christian scholars from 50 Christian denominations? Are you still insisting on forged accounts? you are doomed. when you die you will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever together with the satan who inspires you to stick to paganism.
Ronen says
Ibrahim, your camel has not been satisfied for few hours. You must go now and do the right thing.
gravenimage says
Of course, the claim that John and Mark used ideas from Mithraism is quite false. Firstly, Mithraism has not reached the Roman provinces at the time that they wrote; secondly and more importantly there is no doctrine in Mithraism of the Son of God.
And what is the “New Revised standard version by Eminent christian scholars from 50 Christian denominations” of the Bible that rejects the concept of Jesus as the Son of God–which is, indeed, the cornerstone of Christian belief?
He is probably referring to the The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible by Oxford Press–a scholarly translation which is almost seventy years old at this point.
But the RSV does *not* reject Jesus as the Son of God, Here, for instance, is John 3:16:
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
https://www.biblestudytools.com/rsv/john/3-16.html
This is, in fact, almost identical to the same verse in the King James Version:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Muslims can wet their pants over the absence of the word “begotten”, but clearly this passage has the same exact meaning in both cases.
gravenimage says
ibrahim itace muhammed has said before that beating women and forcing them to wear Burqas ‘restores their dignity’. *Ugh*.
Cthulhu says
What about her tattoos? What was it? Jesus, celtic cross and the Lion of Judah. Aren’t tattoos haram in islam?
abad says
Not to mention, I thought Sinead was a lesbian? Islam prescribes death to lesbians and homosexuals.
What is her excuse?
Elisha says
islam is the same as the left when it comes to hypocrisy and double standards. It’s ALL about the power and whatever it takes to achieve it. They will parade her around as “proof” that islam is “true” just like secular humanists cling to the philosophical delusion of Darwinism despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Carol the 1st says
This intelligent ex-muslim has a good earful for the likes of Ibrahim, Sinead, and Lindsey:
Rant + Messages from Muslims(Apostate Prophet Re-Upload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQJlfL1RWk
James Lincoln says
So what happens if Sinead O’Connor, aka Shuhada’ Davitt, eventually decides that Islam is not for her and wants to convert back to Catholicism?
mortimer says
James, the disillusionment from Islam will surely come in less than two years (my estimate) … she needs her friends and her psychiatrist to monitor her very closely at that point, for she may become suicidal.
FYI says
Isn’t there a death penalty for those who abandon islam?
gravenimage says
If she leaves Islam she is fair game to be killed by any pious Muslim.
She may be able to survive leaving Islam in the West, though.
Rachele Raanan says
Sinead O’Connor has suffered from mental illness her whole life. Her search for relief from the pain and torture of this illness has led her in many directions – and now to Islam. While it is doubtful Islam will provide her the succour she so badly needs, she certainly doesn’t deserve the vitriolic remarks of some of the comments here.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I do remember her making some very vitriolic remarks herself. Her anger has probably driven away those who love her so there was no one there to advise her not to take this step.
Somewhere there is an evil imam snickering to himself under his takiyya at the foolishness of his new convert.
All of that being said, I do hope things turn out the very best for her.
Peter says
Often the mentally ill can make vitriolic comments towards their friends and family, and the world more generally. We shouldn’t condemn the mentally ill for that because it is the illness speaking. It takes a lot of courage and fortitude for the friends and family of someone with a mental illness to stay engaged with that person. Sinead should not have severed her relationship with her family. In her current situation she needs her family more than ever. The best of all possible outcomes for her would be to leave Islam (good luck with that), to reconnect with her family, and maybe even rediscover her Christian faith, perhaps with a renewed perspective.
peter says
Gandhi had a son called Hari Lal who was a disgrace . He was an alcoholic ,compulsive gambler name any vice he had it. He had inurred a lot of debt and muslims said that if he converted to Islam they will write off his debt and he conveniently did . When the muslims were gloating saying that Gandhi’s son converted to Islam ,Gandhi said his conversion was not loss to Hidus and no gain to Islam .Once all the debts were paid off he became a Hindu again~!
Raja says
Peter, Thanks for the educational stuff about Gandhi’s son and the propaganda churning mill of politial Islam.
May I give my opinion:
They (Moslems) will to any depths to show how Islam has “benefitted” from these conversions. They must do this to “preserve” their evil ideology.
Some time back they bragged about a jew in his nineties or even hundreds who converted to Islam because of dementia.
Islam is ever vigilant to devour anyone with the slightest scar
peter says
Thank you sir for hightlightig my point!
Wellington says
Highly instructive what kind of adult converts to Islam. Highly.
Mirren10 says
Indeed, Wellington.
I think another factor is that islam demands very little of its adherents, recite the shehada, bang your head on the floor 5 times a day, and you’re sorted. Christianity on the other hand, demands a high degree of self-examination, self criticism etc, so which one would a not very bright person pick ?
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington and Mirren.
And Mirren, great to see you posting again.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“… bang your head on the floor 5 times a day, and you’re sorted.”
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Haaaaaaa. To funny!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Too funny.
(Honestly, I’m not that illiterate.)
abad says
Very true!
There is no spiritual introspection in Islam, and not needed since the Quran and Hadith tells the newly converted Moslem what to think and do. No examination of conscience, no clear thinking.
If anything, Islam is opposed to clear thinking.
James Lincoln says
abad,
Actually, Islam goes further that.
Clear thinking, including asking legitimate questions about passages in the Koran, etc., are absolutely banned.
All “good Muslims” must think exactly the same way about Islam.
CogitoErgoSum says
Has she been circumcised yet?
CogitoErgoSum says
I ask because I would like to see her response. Does she think a Muslim woman should be circumcised or not? Apparently she’s not afraid to speak her mind on any other subject. Will she speak out about this?
Save Europe says
She’s always been a nutjob, who I’ve always detested.
‘All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant.’
She certainly understands Muslim arrogance, and the fact she’s an old hag – I will give her credit for that!
shea says
this is incredibly sad
gravenimage says
So true…
TWG says
I hope she and her fans enjoy having molten lead poured into their ears. I wonder if that happens before or after the public stoning…….
Dry Academy says
Islam definitely attracts the mentally ill. Sylvia Seegrist is a paranoid schizophrenic who killed 3 people and wounded seven others in a mass shooting at the Springfield Mall in Pennsylvania in 1985. She was interested in Islam although I don’t know if she ever converted. James Holmes, the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooter converted to Islam while in prison. Islam seems to appeal especially to the violently insane. I wonder why that could be? Well, no, actually I don’t wonder very much.
gravenimage says
Yep.
gravenimage says
Sinead O’Connor converts to Islam
………………………
Sinead O’Connor is–or was, at least–at one time a talented singer, but she has wrestled with severe mental health issues for many years. Remember her shaving her head and tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live back in the early 1990s?
As Robert Spencer notes, this is exactly the sort of psychically marginal person–along with violent felons, of course–who are drawn to the violent dysfunction of Islam.
FYI says
I just heard…
Beavis and Butthead…. have …..converted to islam and are now muslims.
Or as they now wish to be known…Bin al-Eavis and Butt ibn Daud ul Hud
islam{sarc]it always attracts the smart ones..
Richard says
According to Wikipedia “In October 2018, O’Connor announced that she had converted to Islam, calling it “the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey.””
Some people convert to Islam because it is uncompromisingly monotheistic, and rejects the Trinity. Of course, these people have done a very shallow investigation into Islam, which promotes a pagan moon god, fashioned in the image of Muhammad, over all others (Allah O Akbar, Allah id the greatest [god]). Islam is also very simplistic and a simple creed is what such people wish to follow.
But then all religious people turn a blind eye to the faults of their religion. It’s just that the faults and morality of Islam is at the bottom of the barrel.
eduardo odraude says
I have a request for Jihad Watch.
I have been one of your readers for over a decade. I once organized a massive mailing of one of Robert Spencer’s books to Congress.
I ask Jihad Watch writers to adopt a discipline of working to unearth a larger number of positive stories — or positive aspects of stories — that give hope. At times this site’s relentless reportage of bad news — though the bad news it reports is accurate — has an effect on my morale not unlike that intended for Americans by Tokyo Rose during World War 2. I know there are other allies of Robert Spencer who feel as I do about this. So I request that all the writers here adopt a discipline of unearthing stories or aspects of stories — ideally this would be half of Jihad Watch content — that give hope or even slight indications of progress in resisting jihad and sharia and containing Islam. I understand that might mean Jihad Watch would be giving more emphasis to positive aspects than perhaps seems quantitatively justified by world trends, but nevertheless I think this site would be more helpful to its own cause and to me if it worked harder to showcase hopeful aspects about how people are successfully, if only in small ways, resisting Islam and jihad.
Richard says
@eduardo odraude – you make a point. It’s for this reason, I take JW only in small doses and usually to get an inside report on some story by the mainstream media, who I suspect to have whitewashed Islam from the story.
But on the positive side there are countries that are aware of the Islamic threat and have taken measures against it. Hungary, Angola, Japan and now, it seems, China.
gravenimage says
There *are* a few hopeful stories here, Eduardo–such as singer Janet Jackson having left Islam last year.
Peter says
Here’s a happy story. I am in the process of reading Don Quixote. Have just finished a chapter in the book about the rescue of the beautiful moorish woman Zoraida who escaped with the “captive” (probably a reference to Miguel Cervantes himself) and a number of “renegades” from Algiers to Spain in a row boat. She sought to escape to Spain to convert to Christianity. She had been taught Christianity by her Christian slave, who had died previously. Incidentally, Cervantes fought at the battle of LePanto (1571) with the Holy League and received three gunshot wounds. He was also captured by Ottoman pirates in a separate incident (1575) and spent five years as a captive, eventually being freed upon payment of a ransom by his parents.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Peter.
Carol the 1st says
I always take pleasure in the old stories where Muhammad was mocked, ridiculed, sheep ate his wise words, a Jewess poisoned him etc. It restores my faith in the innate sense and sensibility of humanity!
The Crusader says
I’m not surprised.
Ade Fegan says
“happy” until you decide that you have had enough of this new fad too Sinead
then see how that goes !
Nav says
Nothing compares to you, you useful idiot!
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“As Hugh Fitzgerald has often noted, Islam attracts the psychically marginal, for it provides a total explanation of the universe, taking away the difficult necessity of making moral decisions on one’s own.”
______
Never truer words were written.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Example: Koran 2:216. The most evil verse in the book.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, that a sly one, isn’t it. Could he be talking about more than one thing there? Allah knows while you do not.
Elisha says
“As Hugh Fitzgerald has often noted, Islam attracts the psychically marginal, for it provides a total explanation of the universe, taking away the difficult necessity of making moral decisions on one’s own.”
Dear Robert, I love you as a brother in Christ Jesus but you know as well as I that an atheist CANNOT account for reason and morality without going outside their worldview, ie acknowledging the God they so cravenly and foolishly deny in the hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 14:1, et al). Surely you can find a Christian brother/sister to assist you (Sam Shamoun, David Wood, Walid Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel). You also know that according to Biblical prophecy that islam will be destroyed and the ONLY thing that matters between now and then is Mark 1:15, Luke 13:1-5, et al. It frustrates me that you hardly ever speak about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On the occasion you did speak about Him (that I am aware of and which I have uploaded to my hard drive), you spoke so beautifully it made me wish you were a preacher instead because I think you’d do an outstanding job. That said, I would not seek to counter God’s will for your life.
Yours sincerely In Christ Jesus,
Elisha
gravenimage says
Elisha has been going around to all the stories either by Hugh Fitzgerald or that even mention him–as here–saying that this staunch Anti-Jihadist is incapable of reason or morality–despite his being an exemplar of both.
Martin says
Pillock
gravenimage says
Note that the name she chose–“Shuhada”–is a variant of “Shahid”–“Martyr” who dies in violent Jihad.
Soren Kuula says
Next time, take care that Scientology gets them first. They’re less harmful.
gravenimage says
True. I have serious issues with Scientology, but I’ll take them any day of the week over Islam.
For Love is Lord of All says
BiPolar disorder is such a tricky thing. It’s a mind trying to shape reality with quick silver. Now you see it, now you don’t. What a talented artist, lost in her own hellish world. I still listen to her music. I suppose the cult of Islam is a fitting expression of that hell. Perhaps she’s trying to work something out of that hellish reality in her own beliguigered way. Stay safe. There are many snakes where you now tread.
James Lincoln says
For Love is Lord of All,
You are correct, bipolar disorder is a tricky disease.
That being said, some people manage relatively well.
One of my best friends from high school was diagnosed in his early 20s. He is now in his 60s and has been relatively stable for many, many years. He is very faithful about taking his medications – and seeing his psychiatrist / social worker counselor on a regular basis.
Not to say that he has not had some major challenges, it’s just that he has had excellent medical care and social support throughout the years.
We still get together at least on a monthly basis to socialize.
He is my friend.
gravenimage says
Glad to hear it, James.
Bipolar people *can* stabilize–but they have to acknowledge that there is a problem in the first place.
j_not_a says
I consider myself a very self aware high functioning bipolar person and have been for many years. Not everyone is in such a position unfortunately. Strong self motivation and determination is required, Is it easy, hell no. There are some dark times, leaning on alcohol occasionally is a weakness. This not uncommon, I’ve thankfully never succumbed to drugs.
For the most part, though sticking faithfully to your meds, good food, exercise, prayer and positivity and you can pull through to the better side and never give up.
gravenimage says
Thanks, j_not_a.
alex Reid says
IDIOT!! Just wants some attention. She’s supposed to be for Women’s Rights – what Rights do they have under Islam. I’d really laugh if she married a Muslim & tried to get a divorce! There’s nothing as stupid as some people.
Montydon says
Sinead O’Conner is a tortured soul. This is not mischief making but fact. She is a victim of the revolution in the Catholic Church known as Vatican 2. Vatican 2 is not the Catholic Church but a usurper of same. Sinead has been trying to make sense of it and has failed as so many have. The fact is you can’t make sense of it as it is so far divorced from the true Catholic Faith. Rather like putting a square peg in a round hole except more difficult. So she turns to something that is Satanic in nature- the devil is very clever in harvesting souls of vulnerable people and with the Catholic Church in tatters , there are many of those. I wonder how much of this is for attention seeking? Perhaps none of it but with her history I would imagine that a proportion of it is. As to the actual ‘conversion’, she will have had to have rejected and denied the Holy Trinity. The devil loves that! I am more sorry for you Sinead than I can say but had you looked harder than just grabbing at a rotten and stinking raft, you would have found the true Catholic Church which still exists as , if you remember when you were on the correct road, Our Lord promised that the gates of hell shall never prevail against the Church. Islam is an evil and Godless ideology promoting everything that Our Lord warned us against – Slavery, murder, violence, adultery, misogyny, theft, fraud-and you have taken it hook, line and sinker. I can only pray for you that some sense returns and that you start to think something of yourself as calling yourself an ‘ugly old hag’ doesn’t help you on any road to recovery. To recap, Search for the church- it IS there- the Vatican 2 Church is NOT Catholic!
Paddy OConnor says
Lived on Strand rd. Bray ,Ir.passed by Sineads house ev.am on way to Rail St. never met,yapped,etc.No interest in her music,songs,but thought her antics,at that time advertising for a husband ,amusing.
During this time a woman was murdered in Bray by her son shortly after she left her husband and Islam. Every knew this case and so Sinead also must have read about.
I fear Sineads antics this time will have terrible repercusions down the line.
Brenda says
She left the Catholic Church to convert to Islam? Well, she won’t be renouncing Islam. They would kill her for that.
Ashley says
I’ve been struggling with this revelation since reading it here.
Only had Sinead’s cd, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.” Loved every single track on that cd.
Sinead herself admits that she’s riddled by a host of mental illnesses. She posted this just last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhNEl3LTRo
Clearly, Sinead (I refuse to acknowledge her “new” name) is a deeply tortured soul battling a litany of demons. She has always struck me as VERY talented artist…but fragile, vulnerable and conflicted.
It does not surprise me that she converted to Islam.
Sad circumstances for sure.
PS: I have to wonder if Sinead was drawn to Islam on her own accord or was groomed. Curious to know about her psychiatrist…
AntiIslamicman says
She’s been sick for a while now.
pumbar says
Islam – nothings convert 2 U.
Bacherbazistan says
She’ll probably transgender next week.
Felix Quigley says
Somebody above writes
“Sinead O’Conner is a tortured soul.”
Wrong. Sinead OConnor is a Muslim and the torturing will be done by Islam if we do not stop it, and her as part of it!
Felix Quigley says
THE WEIRD ATTITUDE OF PAPER OF RECORD IN IRELAND THE IRISH TIMES TO CONVERSION TO ISLAM
In conditions where a Muslim takeover, gaining political control of Ireland, the response of the Irish ruling class to O’Connor becoming a Muslim is very noteworthy.
I was alerted to this when I inserted into Google the following
“Sinead O’Connor converts to islam”
In the first twenty replies by Google there was not one from an Irish newspaper, or anywhere.
That is weird I thought to myself!
I then added to the above The Irish Times to try to find out how they had responded.
Understand that in the present political situation in the world, and in Ireland, and Islam in the world and Ireland, this conversion by O’Connor is a very big event indeed.
I have found that the Irish Times has almost ignored it.
The following is the amount they have written about this MOST significant for Ireland event
“Religion & Beliefs Oct 26, 2018 Social media videos uploaded on Thursday (October 25) appear to show Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor reading out the Islamic proclamation of faith with Dr Umar Al-Qadr, chair of the Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/sinéad-o-connor-converts-to-islam-takes-the-name-shuhada-davitt-1.3676852
I emphasise the Irish Times is considered the paper of record for all. Why this approach to this huge event?
Felix Quigley says
The only real alternative to The Irish Times is The Irish Independent. In this entry https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/sinead-oconnor-announces-conversion-to-islam-37460565.html this is a straight lift from The Press Association
What! This massive Irish paper with so many journalists not able to write one word but a straight lift.
The only other article here is not much but at least it is by an Irish woman
“Sinead O’Connor reveals she has converted to Islam
Allison Bray
October 25 2018 6:52 PM
Singer Sinead O’Connor has revealed she has converted to Islam.
In a recent tweet to fans, the 51-year-old Irish singer revealed that she has also changed her name to Shuhada Davitt – after legally changing her name to Magda Davitt last year.
Sinead O’Connor posted the picture on her Twitter page
The singer also posted a recent image of herself appearing to wear a hijab.
“This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim,” she wrote in a tweet 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.
“I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada’.”
The revelation came twenty-six years after she made headlines around the world when she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul the Second during an appearance on the Saturday Night Live show in October, 1992.
In an interview with Time magazine afterwards, she said she was motivated to do so by the Catholic Church’s appalling record on child abuse.
She was then ordained a priest by Bishop Michael Cox of the Catholic Latin Tridentine Church in Lourdes, France in April, 1999 in which she was renamed Mother Bernadette Mary.
The Catholic Church dismissed the ordination of the singer at the time as “bizarre and absurd.”
Online Editors
One article by one journalist published by The Independnet is hardly enough!