Sinead O’Connor was once invited to speak at a Mothers Against Radical Islam and Sharia (MARIAS) event in London, or at least to put out a statement on the group’s behalf. She had the good grace to reply to say that she couldn’t speak out against Islam in England because she was too busy fighting for women’s rights in her own country.
To her credit, she did help expose the abuse that girls and boys were suffering in laundries, orphanages, and at the hands of pedophile priests. I wonder if she will now look to expose the abuses that occur, today, against girls and boys in madrassas and mosques and in their own homes during Quran lessons, by imams and clerics up and down the UK. The double standard is that when the Catholic Church was caught in a scandal, no one was afraid to blame the Pope for a cover-up and name the priests as being ‘priests’ and ‘Catholic’. No one danced around the issue, minced their words or pulled their punches. Nor did Sinead hesitate to rip up a picture of the Pope on live American TV. Would she dare rip up a picture of Muhammad? Would she dare call a cleric who raped boys and girls a ‘Muslim’? Let’s wait and see if her feminist activism continues within Islam. If it does, let’s wait and see how long before a fatwah gets put out against her.
Sinead has falsely claimed to be a theologian, and falsely claimed that when you study world religions, then all roads lead you to Islam. This simply isn’t true, and any theologian of note would laugh in your face if you said it to them. It all leaves me to wonder what empowerment for women Sinead is seeing within Islam that’s drawing her towards it. She’s a bit of an attention-seeker and hasn’t had a hit album in years, and she has gone from making YouTube videos of herself in a motel room in New Jersey, crying and begging for her family to come and save her, to now converting to Islam. She clearly has mental health issues and is in need of care. I would imagine that she sees Islam as today’s major talking point, and she’s jumping on the bandwagon and playing the fame game to keep herself in the news.
Is she playing mind games? She might be. When she said she no longer wanted to engage with white people, she later made a YouTube video saying that she only said it to see if it would get her a Twitter ban. Is her conversion to Islam a mind game? If so, it’s not very helpful for young women out there. She’s already covering her head with a hijab to preserve her modesty (something one could argue she lost in her younger years of drinking and drugging and having multiple children with multiple fathers). Islam, of course, will accept and endorse her, while the graves of their own women who have behaved in the same manner are piling up. For them, it’s free publicity. The Muslim Council of Britain welcomed her with open arms. She’s a mild celebrity, and together with Lindsey Lohan, makes Islam look like an attractive option for women.
Sinead grew up under a virtual theocracy and, as far as I’m aware, in a strict religious household. She has spent time as a teen in a Magdalene Asylum for shoplifting and truancy. She knows the restrictions that the more fundamental aspects of any religion can impose upon a person, particularly a female. She, of all people, should be avoiding Islam. She has done drugs and had multiple sex partners, and all of it gone unpunished under Western laws (I think her drug-taking was limited to smoking joints, nothing class A). Sinead O’Connor would not be alive today had she grown up under Islam, and yet now she is running to it.
Buraq says
Without her vocal talent, Sinead is just a lippy, Irish housewife. With her vocal talent, she can hog the front page with every new, outlandish comment or act. She’s a clown, but revels in the fact. She’s been on self-destruct since she became famous, because, in reality, she believes that nothing compares to her!
When the Islam schtick comes to an end, she’ll cast around for something else.
John Magee says
She can’t leave Islam. They kill apostates.
Mac-101 says
I’m ashamed to say it but I would have to hold back a chuckle if it did happen. How can Satan brain wash people SO MUCH?
Elisha says
2 Corinthians 4:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12.
JAT 349 says
DRUGS……
Peggy says
If she lives that long.
Emilie Green says
“Let’s wait and see if her feminist activism continues within Islam.” It won’t.
“She clearly has mental health issues and is in need of care.” Understatement of the year.
Martin says
Hypocrisy from her!
abu taleb says
That is very typical from the muslims, always talk about what the non muslims do but never admit what the muslims do. A hadith says Allah will cover a muslim’s bad deeds if the muslim covers other muslims’ bad deeds. So, Islam is telling the muslims to become hypocrites.
29 March 2019 says
“She’s a bit of an attention-seeker”
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Unlike those shrinking violets who were dancing on top of a bus after the Free Tommy march.
Rob Crawford says
Non-sequitor, much?
mortimer says
Irish people must be giving this IDIOT a traditional, extensive, Hibernian piece of their minds.
I have never known the Irish people to suffer fools gladly !!!
mortimer says
Words in Irish Gaelic that describe Sinead O’Connor:
amadán – idiot, arse, tit, turkey
leibide – arse, idiot, turkey
liúdramán – idiot, turkey
dúramán – idiot
O’Connor made a LEIBIDE of herself.
bómán – idiot
James Foard says
This is my response to a Catholic writer who claimed that the suffering and persecution that Christians are going through in the world is for the sake of a bunch of pedophile priests,
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/this-new-age-of-martyrs
“I sense that there is a real spiritual correlation between the sex scandals rocking the Church in the West and the vicious persecution of her other members in places like Africa and Asia. If so then it would seem that the sins of those fallen clergy are being expiated by the blood of countless martyrs around the globe . . . The innocent become like lambs for sacrifice in an act of justice against the sins of the guilty.”. “This New Age of Martyrs”, Crisis Magazine, Francis J. Pierson, November 23, 2018.
What an utterly despicable slander from Pierson of those who have suffered for our Savior and for their witness for Christ. These martyrs were persecuted for RIGHTEOUSNESS sake, for the sake of the Cross, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”, Matthew 5:10, for their faithful witness for our Lord and the Gospel. Those 21 Coptic martyrs slain in Libya refused to renounce Christ and gave their lives for the faith. They did not suffer and die to expiate the sins of a group of reprobate, wicked, despicable pedophile priests who have brought shame on the Body of Christ and desecrated their position in abusing the least among us with their perverted desires.
Our sins, first of all, were expiated by the blood of our Savior at the Cross. He took upon Himself our sins. When Paul said that he was fulfilling in his flesh what was “still lacking in the afflictions of Christ” he meant simply what Christ had prophesied, “But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for My name’s sake”
Acts 9:14-16;
“Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for My name’s sake, because they know not Him that sent Me.” John 15:20-21;
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” Matthew 5:11-12. And ye shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.: Matthew 10:22-24.
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” Matthew 5:11-13.
It is also written in Jeremiah 30:31 “But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.”
“But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?” Matthew 10:23-25
Shame on Pierson for his despicable, reprobate “theology”. His comments are a disgraceful slander to Christ and His Church.
Elisha says
Well stated, brother James. God bless.
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33
FYI says
She will turn out to be an enormous PR disaster for islam in time..wait and see..
She’s like a wrecking ball wherever she goes and whatever she says she brings her own chaos to it.A few years ago she decided she was a Catholic priest.
She appears to thrive on publicity.
The muslim council of Britain will rue the day she converted to their creed!
She is already acting as a bad PR for islam.
islam attracts the weird,the theologically-challenged,the disturbed,the violent..those who cannot think for themselves.THAT’s the message that is being seen in her idiotic conversion.
Meanwhile,a muslim-born pop star has courageously and publically abandoned the cult of islam{see the Apostate Prophet on You Tube re:O’Connor’s conversion}
John Flanagan says
In my observations almost all conversions to Islam from Christianity are acts of rebellion. Most conversions from Islam to Christianity are not. I’m sure some are, but most are not.
I think this is the case with O’Conner. It’s just too irrational otherwise. I agree she is and has been “on self-destruct”. But I don’t believe people want to destroy themselves, because this goes against the notion that fallen man loves himself supremely. I believe self-destructiveness is rather a means that a child chooses to punish others, primarily their parents. You go for what the other values most. You want to hurt them in reply to the hurt they have given you.
Christine says
In 1948, Msgr. Fulton Sheen predicted the creation of a Counter or False Church. You can read more about it here: https://novusordowatch.org/fulton-sheen-prophecy-counter-church/
That Miss O’Connor and other confused people continue to describe John Paul II et al as “Popes” when the proper term is “antipope” demonstrates the confusion and ignorance of our modern era.
The debauched clergy infesting the Counter Church are frequently child rapists and sodomites because they have been sent there not by God but by Communists who have recruited them to destroy what’s left of the Church.
Nikita Khrushchev said in his autobiography that the Reds would “destroy Christianity.” He also said they would use a series of sex scandals to undermine the confidence of the laity in their church leaders.
Let us pray the rosary for the restoration of the True Faith and that God will deliver us from people like Sinead O’Connor, the antipopes, and anti-clergy.
Elisha says
I believe the Communist filth stop at nothing for power and have infiltrated ALL institutions in the West including all churches. There are many sincere believers in the Catholic church but this is disturbing and one of the reasons I am no longer a Catholic:
Catechism of the Catholic Church
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time. – 1 Timothy 2:5-6
Carol the 1st says
This site seems to show some qualifiers to 841 per 840 and 842:
https://carm.org/catholic-catechisms-view-muslim-god-wrong
frisky says
Don’t know why you are devoting space to this very troubled woman. Scientology is probably next on her list of favored “clubs” to join. You intend to publish all of her ravings if that happens?
isaac says
The page is called Jihadwatch for a reason. If Scientology develops a Jihad then yes.
Arthur says
Islam forbids music so she should be stoned under Sharia law
infidel says
She is that typical mentally imbalanced feminazzi… attention seeking old hag.. Bollywood too has its share. They are the biggest compromisers of the free world.
Al says
George Orwell says one can see what is wrong wioth leftism from the uglines of women who support iy.
BC says
“She’s a bit of an attention-seeker” That must be in the top ten of understatements of the year
Marigiold says
Dear Joshua,
You have eloquantly said it all.
However, I often wonder if at the bottom of her rebelliousness to her Irish Catholic faith is a rebelliousness against the strict form of Catholicism and the extreme poverty common when she was growing up.Irish Catholicism had elements of the heresy called Jansenism, condemned by several Popes. It was imported from France as a result of Irish seminaries being banned under Engish rule during penal times.Irish men wanting to become priests had to be trained in France.
Put simply the heresy put too much stress on God’s selective salvation which resulted in some interpretating the faith with a general harshness and moral rigorism denying God’s mercy to all humankind.According to the theologian Cornelius Jansenius and later Bishop of Ypres[1585-1638] the human will is incapable of any moral goodness.
If you are told that often enough and that God is not a loving Father coupled with extreme poverty made worse by the big families the Irish had then there is no wonder that some rebelled and went off the rails.Sinead probably didn”t get enough love as a child and the attention she received as a singer probably turned her head.
I am trying to understand the woman not judge her as there are always reasons why people act the way they do.
The irish have rebelled big time these days so she is not on her own.
alex Reid says
She ought to take her empty Guinness crate to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, & spout off at their “Speaker’s Corner”, To promote Women’s Rights there! She wouldn’t last 2minutes before the Religious Police haul her away & bang her up in Prison without the business of having a Trial!. Mohammed’s favourite wife, his child bride, Aysha, clearly stated, “Nobody suffers like the women of those who believe.” Sahih Bukhari.
She said directly to Muhammed: “You have made us equal to the dogs & asses.” Sahih Muslim4:1039. This woman’s brains are totally screwed up with drugs she’s injected herself with or snorted up her nose! IDIOT!
Felix Quigley says
“She ought to take her empty Guinness crate to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, & spout off at their “Speaker’s Corner”, To promote Women’s Rights there! She wouldn’t last 2minutes before the Religious Police haul her away & bang her up in Prison without the business of having a Trial!. Mohammed’s favourite wife, his child bride, Aysha, clearly stated, “Nobody suffers like the women of those who believe.” Sahih Bukhari.
She said directly to Muhammed: “You have made us equal to the dogs & asses.” Sahih Muslim4:1039.”
Such a useful comment about Sinead!
When people talk about Sinead becoming a Muslim and all of her dishonesty about Islam, she joins just after the barbarity of ISIS in Syria and Libya, remember all of those vivid images that have marked the lives of everybody, remember how Christianity the religion of her birth is being attacked in Nigeria, this is really showing what a hypocrite Sinead actually is. She willfully closes her eyes.
What is left out though is that the events of living reality concerning Islam have left a whole generation beached on a sand dune that they had imagined in their own heads.
If you listen to her singing with Peter Gabriel in Chile in 1990 you see the whole crisis in entertainment. “Dont Give Up” is a sickly song of that time, she reads the words, she tries to upstage Gabriel, she plays on her little girl crap, cannot hit any high note at all, and yet she was feted by Gay Byrne repeatedly.
That whole generation cannot make the transition. It is simultaneously reflected in the hatred for Trump, which is also/really a hatred of their own plight. They hate Trump because of their own bankruptcy. Same bankruptcy with Sinead so she hates Ireland!
Felix Quigley says
And what is this bankruptcy? It is certainly a crisis of the spirit in humanity.
But those who are looking to some other religion are also denying the evidence of our eyes.
All of the religions are facilitators of the Mohammedan Jihad that is causing damage to the world.
Some are finding recourse in CRITICISM OF the leadership of Pope Francis. But it is an organizational issue. The whole of religion as reflected in every modern state organ which also reflect these religions is being mobilized to go on the attack against anyone who seeks to tell the truth, in this case about Islam, but not just that either.
Jay says
She’s flat-out screwed in the head.