Sinead O’Connor, as she has informed the whole world, has apologised for her rant last year in which she said she “never wants to spend time with white people again.”
Many will remember the statement the egomaniacal and semi-demented singer tweeted to the world, a few weeks after she – once Sinead and subsequently Shuhada — announced that she had become a Muslim: “What I’m about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting.”
“The singer now says that she was ‘angry and unwell’ when she made the ‘racist’ remark last October.” (It was actually in early November.)
If Sinead O’Connor told everyone in October 2018 how calm and content she felt, ever since she had accepted Islam, or realized that a she had been a Muslim all along, why was it that she was “angry and unwell” just a few weeks later when, in November, she made the remark she now calls “racist” about white people? In her confusion, she conflated “non-Muslims” with “white people,” for she wrote “I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-muslims are called).”
Was she “angry and unwell” despite, or could it have been because of Islam? She could have read in the Qur’an that non-Muslims (or “white people,” as she called them) are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). She could have read the verses about not taking Christians or Jews as friends, “for they are friends only with each other” (5:51). She could have read many verses commanding Muslims to “fight” and to “kill” and to “smite at the necks of” and to “strike terror in the hearts of” non-Muslims, which might well have caused Sinead O’Connor, who had renamed herself as Shuhada Davitt, to regard those objects of so much inculcated Qur’anic hate as “disgusting.”
What should have been her views of Jews, after all, if she formed her opinion based on the Qur’an, where she might have learned about Islamic antisemitism, which as Robert Spencer has written is rooted in Qur’an 5:82, which says Jews are the worst enemies of Muslims; in 2:65, 5:59-60, and 7:166, which has Allah transforming disobedient Jews into apes and pigs; in 9:30, which says Jews are accursed; and many other passages. Spencer has usefully collected them here: “The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the wellbeing of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); as fabricating things and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); claiming that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more.”
While Christians do not suffer denunciations of the same virulence or frequency in the Qur’an as do Jews, they are regarded, with Jews, as “the most vile of created beings.” They are to be fought, just like Jews, as Qur’an 9:29 commands: “Fight against Unbelievers [Christians and Jews] until they pay the tribute readily [the Jizyah], being brought low.” Quran 9:30 calls for their destruction, just like that for the Jews: “And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!” Surely these are the passages where Shuhada Davitt got the idea that non-Muslims – her “white people” – are “disgusting,” and caused her to exclaim that “I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-muslims are called.)”
Almost a full year has passed since she made her declaration. And she has apparently discovered – it must have surprised her — that many of those “white people” took umbrage at being described as “disgusting”; on social media she has been raked over the coals. Now that she is about to return to the stage – after being away for five years — for performances in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Wexford, and has even hinted at a new album, she needed to mend fences. No doubt her friends, or even a possible agent, suggested it would be a good idea to apologize for her “I never wanna spend time with white people again” remark and mend fences. So she came up with this on September 8: “As regards to remarks I made while angry and unwell, about white people… they were not true at the time and they are not true now. I was triggered as a result of islamophobia dumped on me. I apologize for hurt caused. That was one of many crazy tweets lord knows…” Excuses, excuses: “I [was] angry and unwell.” And “I was triggered as a result of islamophobia dumped on me.” What is she talking about? What “islamophobia” was “dumped” on her? She still can’t come clean, can’t declare that there are no legitimate excuses for her idiotic and intolerable remarks.
Box-office considerations, not real chagrin or genuine sorrow, are behind this only apparent change of mind.
“Speaking about finding the religion, O’Connor told The Late Late Show‘s host: ”I read chapter two of the Qu’ran and I realised I’m home, and that I’ve been a Muslim all my life. There’s a way of thinking.
“You can be a Muslim without actually being a Muslim as it’s a headset. A Muslim is someone who believes nothing should be worshipped except God.”
If she read Sura 2, Al-Buqarah (“The Heifer”) then she must have read 2:191-2:193:
2:190. And fight in the Way of Allah those who fight you, but transgress not the limits. Truly, Allah likes not the transgressors.
2:191. And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-al-Haram, unless they fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
2:192. But if they cease, then Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
2:193. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah and worship is for Allah. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)
Those verses in Sura Two are unambiguous commands to Muslims to fight and to kill the Unbelievers. Yet it was this very Sura, so very unpleasant toward Unbelievers, that Sinead/Shuhada found so attractive, and that was enough for her to feel she had come home: “I read chapter two of the Qu’ran and I realised I’m home, and that I’ve been a Muslim all my life.”
Has she read more of the Qur’an beyond “chapter two,” or was that enough to convince her of the sheer rightness of Islam, and that she has “been a Muslim all her life”?
Someone whose entire adult life has been a sad succession of crazy episodes, failed suicide attempts, drugs, attention-getting bizarreries, has for nearly a year proudly proclaimed that she has at long last found peace as a Muslim, and that “I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting.”
I think we should oblige her. Let’s start by none of us white people buying her records, or her videos, and let’s make sure not to attend her concerts in Cork, Galway, Dublin, and Wexford.
I don’t wanna spend time with Shuhada Davitt again (if that’s what she’s now called). Not for any moment, for any reason. She is disgusting. Perhaps you will agree.
Jennifer Cabot says
Who?
tim gallagher says
Spot on, Jennifer. Why does anyone give the ramblings of the mentally ill Sinead O’Connor the time of day? And I agree with Kilauea’s comment (just below this) about how insignificant her musical career was. When I saw these recent reports about the comments by the unfortunate (quite ill) Sinead, I did think that the Muslims will be embarrassed by her statements. It’s bad PR. They’ll be sorry they let her join Islam. For example, when she says how she hates all white people, etc, many more people will think, oh, so that’s the type of thing Islam does to a person’s mind.
gravenimage says
Muslims *love* it when even vaguely famous Westerners covert to Islam. They are still crowing over Cat Stevens, even though his career was pretty much over by the time he became “Yusuf Islam” and started threatening Salman Rushdie.
tim gallagher says
I’m sure you are right about that, gravenimage, but don’t you think that some of the leaders amongst the Muslims would be beginning to find Sinead O’Connor’s nonsense rather embarrassing. I mean, the Muslims often do like to pretend to be all nice and friendly to us (even though it’s total BS) and I think Sinead O’Connor’s immoderate statements might have them thinking, hell, what have we got here with this loony. Maybe, they’ll send her to that school that was reported on recently, here at Jihad Watch, where Muslims learn how to “manage” the media better. I do feel sorry, to some degree, for Sinead O’Connor, in the same way I do for any person who genuinely has serious mental health problems. It is a shame she found her way into the nasty cult, Islam. With better luck, maybe she could have stumbled, instead, into some less harmful movement. Above all, I think she is not someone to take any notice of, which is exactly what I thought about Cat Stevens. Out of all the ideologies a person could join, I can’t comprehend why anyone would join Islam. It’s so barbaric in so many ways. I guess if a person has a really strong hatred and resentment in them, then Islam fits them well.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Tim. And Muslims *may* eventually become embarrassed by Sinead O’Connor–but they seem fine with Muslims who are *much* more horrifying than she is ever likely to be.
tim gallagher says
I agree, gravenimage. I don’t believe Sinead O’Connor could ever be as appalling as many members of islam are. I think they’ll be a bit worried about her continuing to be something of a loose cannon and wondering what she might come out with next.
Stephen Bryan says
Why don’t you shower of cunts leave the woman alone. Have a good look at yourselves first before you pick on a person who is Ill.
Shame on you all you shitheads
Angemon says
Who here is picking on her or not leaving her alone? Are people shouting at her as she passes on the street, or following her to her house and forcing their way in? Or are people talking to one another about her? Are people not allowed to discuss her actions and statements?
gravenimage says
Stephen Bryan wrote:
Why don’t you shower of cunts leave the woman alone. Have a good look at yourselves first before you pick on a person who is Ill.
Shame on you all you shitheads
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Sinead O’Connor is a public figure, and is making a very public show of having converted to Islam–to demand that we not be allowed to speak about this is absurd.
And many of us have expressed concern for her–to insist that we be allowed to say nothing about how Islam oppresses woman and targets those who leave the creed is grotesque.
smoris says
Yeah. Good question. Seriously, how can someone who thinks she is a devout Muslim be doing a singing tour and releasing an album? She must not have found out yet that Muslims are supposed to eschew music except for the call to prayer. What is this, anyway? Taqqiya?
Kilauea says
Sinead O’Connor was barely a one hit wonder. Why does anyone care what she has to say?
Diane Riley says
Exactly!
R Russell says
Poor Sinead. Let’s hope she meets Jesus (the one in the Bible, not the one in the Koran) on her visit to Ireland.
It would make such a big difference to her life.
Bruce A Crichton says
She grew up as Catholic. Did you not notice that?
gravenimage says
The idea that all Catholics convert to Islam is, of course, completely mistaken.
R Russell says
Bruce A Crichton
Living in a garage doesn’t make you a car. In spite of being raised in a RC home, she has never met Jesus to discover the transformative friendship he offers.
That’s her problem. She threw the baby out with the bath water.
There is still hope for her IF she starts to read the Islamic texts.
That’s what happened with Joseph Colden of England.
He was raised in a home with Christian parents but believed the Dawah of the Islamic proselyters at university when things were not so good at home.
He began to read the Islamic texts and discovered his mistakes. He left Islam and was assaulted for it.
He has a YouTube channel
Kepha says
Amen and amen, R.
I looked up a bio of Sinead O’Connor. Paul aptly described her as “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7); and now she appears further as one of Jude’s “wandering stars” (planetoi–Jude 1:13).
Leslie Ackerman says
The day after was already too late.
James Lincoln says
Here is the recent interview on the Late Late Show.
The interviewer never challenges her “reversion” to Islam, he just says “yes”, and nods in agreement.
The entire interview is very sad because this woman has significant mental health issues. She actually knows very little about Islam and seems to embrace it because it seems like the “in thing” to do. And she “sports” a hijab which, she thinks, is very stylish.
The comments posted on the YouTube website are, unbelievably, almost totally supportive of her position.
The world is going down a very dark road.
Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8Mh7Bc2hI
somehistory says
Some people have had the idea that if a person is wrapped tightly from head to toe, they can experience a “rebirth” and get ride of many of their emotional and mental problems. (I don’t agree with this.)
Perhaps she is trying to “wrap” herself in the garb of moslim women in order to get the supposed secure feeling people claim happens with the tight wrapping in the “rebirth” procedure.
I think she is a very unhappy person, and has looked in all of the wrong places to find happiness. However, she has blamed non moslims for her troubles as opposed to getting some help from those who might be able to help her.
Now she is wanting money, so she makes “excuses” for herself and admits no wrong for her own. This is psychopathic…not accepting responsibility for one’s actions is a part of the psychopathic personality.
Those with personality disorders are not considered mentally ill.
I believe she has a psychopathic personality, as another trait is to not be able to see the future consequences of one’s actions. She has exhibited this and the blaming others as opposed to accepting responsibility for her mistakes. Likely she has other traits of the psychopathic personality.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Thanks for the reply-interesting post.
gravenimage says
Most people in the West just want others to be happy, and understand nothing about Islam.
But there are also a lot of Muslims gloating in the comments thread, as well.
Rev. G says
Perhaps she and Lindsay Lohan can start their own sect of Islam, maybe call themselves the Amnutsi’s.
gravenimage says
Yes–another mentally ill person who sabotaged her career and was lured into Islam.
revereridesagain says
Hole gets deeper, Sinead keeps digging. Next concert will be held in China.
Really, WHY does anyone care what yet another deluded pop star thinks about this or anything else?
Rhonda says
+10
elee says
Crazy broad, go live in a harem in Arabia. You can take your libber sisters with you too, they hate white folks too and love Muslims, go get your collective fill of 7th-century misogyny.
Angemon says
I wonder whether she’ll sing her greatest hits or some sort of “islam-inspired” (not necessarily aproved) music?…
E T says
Always the rebel
http://en.wikipedia.org>wiki>Sin
Sinead O’Connor-Wikipedia
FYI says
The convert to Christianity
“I once was lost but now i’m found”
The former Christian who converts to islam
“I once was found but now i’m lost”
DHazard says
Poor Sinead.
End PC says
This is a must see take-down video (even humorous) of Sinead’s total misunderstanding of Islam by an ex-Muslim who knows It’s teachings. Very informative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hgDtUUOUgQ
James Lincoln says
End PC,
Excellent video, thanks for posting.
The problem is that some impressionable women will fall for her fictitious version of Islam…
Ric says
Sinead is unworthy of sucking the same air as we, the white people or whoever, on this planet. This woman has battled mental illness for decades; she has joined the right ‘cult,’ Islam for her psychological therapy. Sinead’s anger and other issues are of her doing or undoing. Frankly, does anyone give a toss?
O’Connor’s sense of entitlement, superiority, and narcissism was evident before her conversion to Islam. There is no doubt nothing compares to Islam; her and Islam’s edicts were parallel during her pre-Muslim days. Her illness befits Islam, as the same maniacal psychopathy possesses them.
mortimer says
Sinead, come home to Christianity. All the Irish are Christian Trinitarians. The shamrock … St Patrick. Leave your sad, very ill mother out of it. We love you, Sinead and we forgive you for all your foolish words. Who hasn’t said something stupid? Please drop Islam and come home. We are here for you. We are your great loving family.
SamB says
In this case, go to Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Turkey,, Iran, Egypt, Brunei…is the starting point for this concert. As I see it in your heart you will be saying to your (Western Audience) you infidels while fleecing them of their money. Countries of the Dar-al Harb will probably fund you like they did with Yusef Islam .O, yes, did you not know that Islam only allows you to sing only from the Qur’an? So, do you expect me to listen to that?
Dr. Doom says
Poor woman has been off the rails for quite some time. Long before she made her “declaration.” She is to be pitied more than anything.