Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonIn her first
UK concert since 2015 and her recent conversion to Islam, the
Irish singer AKA Shuhada Sadaqat movingly finds solace on stage
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‘I used to be polarising, perhaps,” Sinéad O’Connor said on Good Morning
Britain in September. “But I’ve got a bit older and I don’t think I’m polarising [now].”
That’s a matter of perspective. Her conversion to Islam last year, changing her name to Shuhada Sadaqat in the process (though her original name still appears on her social media), produced a torrent of reaction, not all of it positive. In a tweet at the time, she declared: “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.”