{"id":11824,"date":"2018-10-29T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T00:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2021-04-15T06:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:30:36","slug":"sinead-oconnor-embraces-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/news\/sinead-oconnor-embraces-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinead O\u2019Connor embraces Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<amp-jwplayer layout=\"flex-item\" height=\"600\" data-player-id=\"bKajWAhe\" width=\"700\" data-media-id=\"yOJ22hbj\" class=\"wp-block-amp-amp-jwplayer\"><\/amp-jwplayer>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Famous Irish Singer, Sinead O\u2019Connor converts to Islam<\/span><\/h1>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Famous Irish Singer, Sinead O\u2019Connor has accepted Islam today in Ireland, proclaiming her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shahadah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (testimony of faith). <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She posted on twitter:<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian\u2019s journey. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian&#8217;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.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian\u2019s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant. I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada\u2019<\/p>\n\u2014 Shuhada\u2019 Davitt (@MagdaDavitt77) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagdaDavitt77\/status\/1053340513871384576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also revealed that she had been given her first hijab by her friend Elaine and \u201cgot chills all over&#8217; her body when she put it on. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her conversion has since been embraced by Muslims online from around the world and she has been inundated with messages of support.<\/span>\n<blockquote><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Thank you so much to all my Muslim brothers and sisters who have been so kind as to welcome me to Ummah today on this page. You can&#8217;t begin to imagine how much your tenderness means to me.&#8217; \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O&#8217;Connor was born in County Dublin in 1966 and rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. She has since produced ten solo albums. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is also famous for singing Conor McGregor\u2019s entrance song \u201cThe Foggy Due\u201d. Today, she, however, takes a new road in life, declaring the words \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alhamdulillah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (All praise due to Allah) as she begins her new life as a Muslim.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has also donned her Twitter page with verses of the Quran and a new display picture encouraging Muslim women to wear the Hijab.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May Allah bless our new sister in Islam and make her conversion process easy and one filled with blessings.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Irish Singer, Sinead O\u2019Connor converts to Islam Famous Irish Singer, Sinead O\u2019Connor has accepted Islam today in Ireland, proclaiming her Shahadah (testimony of faith). She posted on twitter: \u201cThis is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian\u2019s journey. 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