Sinead O’Connor Breaks Silence on Islam Conversion, Adopts New Name

As is customary in this matter, the transition from one religion to another is marked, among other things, by a change of identity. Thus, from now on, Sinead O’Connor will have to be called Shuhada Sadaqat, following her adoption of the Islamic religion. We remember that this singer had performed the hit song, ’’Nothing compares to you’’.

In reality, for reasons that were close to her heart, it was not easy for her to open up about her conversion to the media, despite the many solicitations from them: "I felt that I didn’t want to because this decision is a private matter and I didn’t have to justify myself to people. I don’t have to explain to people why I became a Muslim...," she said, before adding: "I feel passionately about Islam and I am just as passionate when it comes to defending Islam against stigmatization," she concluded, on the microphone of Eddie Redzovic, an American YouTube star, also converted to Islam and hosting a highly listened weekly show.

According to Sinead O’Connor, to characterize what happened to her, the word "conversion" is not the right one, but rather "return" because, she justifies, "I have always, always been a Muslim, without even knowing it." Furthermore, she made it clear that this change of course did not imply a mission of converting others that she would feel invested in. However, this does not prevent her from having advised her father, now also an adept of Islam, to listen to the Quran more than to read it, for his discovery of it.

Moreover, according to the words of Shuhada Sadaqat, the "return" to Islam, which she has experienced, is part of a general process that has reached Ireland, that of an increasingly massive adoption of this religion by its compatriots, because of the many moral scandals that have tarnished the Catholic Church.