Shuhada’ Sadaqat (Sinead O’Connor) Finds “White People” (Non-Muslims) “Disgusting” (Part One)

by Hugh Fitzgerald

Shuhada’ Sadaqat (formerly Shuhada Davitt, who was formerly known as Magda Davitt, who was formerly known as Sinead O’Connor) has publicly, and rather noisily, announced to the world that she has now converted to Islam. Much of the Western press seemed to think this example of adult-onset Islam worthy of their attention. It’s unclear why, as Sinead O’Connor has been exhibiting signs of dementia for many years, long before she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul on Saturday Night Live to express her disagreement with him on the question of abortion.

Now she tells us that not only is she a Muslim, but that she hates all white people. Apparently she is not herself white. Was she ever? Here is her latest crazed tweet:

“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.” — Shuhada’ Davitt (@MagdaDavitt77) November 6, 2018

But who made her “say” anything “so racist”? Why does she insist on inflicting on the world her remarkably unedifying spiritual journey from Catholic to hater of Catholicism to ordained priest in a Catholic Church not in communion with Rome, and then to Islam, and finally, as a Muslim convert, to being a hater of all “white people (if that’s what non-muslims are called),” whom she finds “disgusting”? Why must she tell the world urbi et orbi, just like one of those Popes she so deplores, the putative “feelings” of her very likely non-existent “soul”? She could just have quietly abandoned all the “white people” she knew, no fuss, no muss. One wonders if, among those “white people” who are “disgusting,” she includes all her musical collaborators, former friends, family members. Will it be possible for them to cease to be white, and thus no longer “disgusting,” if they convert to Islam? And what about her father? Is he “disgusting”? We know that Sinead was delighted, as she let the whole world know, when her mother died. Sinead was 19 at the time, and hated her mother because, she claimed, her mother Marie ran a “torture chamber” at home. That might help explain why Sinead — Shuhada — has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and has been, as it is formulaically put, “struggling with mental health issues” her whole life. I’ll say.

So her mother — clearly a “white person” — may have been awful. But are all “white people” really “disgusting”? Are all four of her siblings “disgusting”? Her brother Joseph, the novelist, who was been recognized for his contributions to Irish literature — is he now “disgusting”? Her father Sean O’Connor has loyally stuck by her during her emotional vicissitudes: “I admire and love my daughter and as far as I’m concerned she can do nothing wrong,” he said a few years ago. He’s not a Muslim. Is he disgusting? What must Shuhada think of her own former self? Was she “disgusting” during the first 50 years that she lived before she embraced Islam and ceased to be white?

She’s had a full, rich, utterly nutty life. Four husbands, four children. She now says “I am a dyke.” When did she realize that? Before her four marriages, or after? In 1999, she had herself ordained as a priest in the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church (an Independent Catholic group not in communion with the Catholic Church). She had a hysterectomy in 2015, but she says it turned out badly: “I became very suicidal. I was a basket case.” She blamed her mental state on the hospital that had failed to give her hormone therapy. She changed her name a year ago to Magda Davitt, saying in an interview that she wished to be “free of the patriarchal slave names.” “Sinead” is a “patriarchal slave name?” Who knew?

Her version of a song written by Prince — “Nothing Compares 2U” — made it famous. She describes her meetings with him: “I did meet him a couple of times. We didn’t get on at all. In fact we had a punch-up.” She continued: “He summoned me to his house after ‘Nothing Compares 2U.’ I made it without him. I’d never met him. He summoned me to his house – and it’s foolish to do this to an Irish woman – he said he didn’t like me saying bad words in interviews. So I told him to fuck off….He got quite violent. I had to escape out of his house at 5 in the morning. He packed a bigger punch than mine.”

First published in Jihad Watch.