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Sinead O'Connor 'doesn't want to spend time with white people again'
In shocking comments on social media, singer Sinead O’Connor has claimed she “doesn’t want to spend time with white people again”.
The Nothing Compares 2 U hitmaker – who recently converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada’, which means ‘martyrs’ in Arabic – has said she is ‘disgusted’ by people who don’t follow her new faith.
Sinead posted the comment, which she herself described as ‘so racist’, on Twitter on Tuesday.
“I’m terribly sorry. What I’m about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it,” she wrote.
“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 51-year-old – whose full name is now Shuhada’ Davitt – then questioned Twitter’s policy about blocking hateful content, as she wondered whether or not her account would be deleted.
“Interesting to see if Twitter bans this when it allows people like Trump and Milbank spew the satanic filth upon even my country,” she wrote.
Sinead took to social media last month to announce her change of faith, and said the conversion was the ‘natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey’.
“This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim,” she wrote at the time. “This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’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’
“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’t begin to imagine how much your tenderness means to me.”
It’s not the first time the singer has changed her name.
In 2017, she became Magda Davitt and said at the time: “Sinead O’Connor is gone. That person is gone.”
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