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
‘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.”