The singer recently announced she has converted to Islam, changing her name to Shuhada’ Davitt. However, in the midst of her tweets about her practice of Islam, the 51-year-old made a statement which she acknowledged was ‘so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it’. The Nothing Compares 2U singer wrote:
‘I’m terribly sorry. 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 majority of those replying to Sinead’s tweet – many of them Muslims themselves – called her out on the post.
Sinead was ordained as a priest by the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in the late 1990s, and practised Christianity for years. Famously, in 1992, she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II and said ‘fight the real enemy’ during a performance on Saturday Night Live, in protest of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
The star addressed this moment on Twitter, sharing a link and writing: ‘The last line of this performance on SNL was my first Shahada and the real moment I became a Muslim.’
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