{"id":25010,"date":"2021-06-01T16:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=25010"},"modified":"2021-06-01T21:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:59:58","slug":"sinead-oconnor-islam-snl","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/sinead-oconnor-islam-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor Sheds Light On \u2018SNL\u2019 Controversy and Conversion to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25013\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25013\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1203517570-e1622562303195.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Sin\u00e9ad O'Connor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor (Photo: Andrew Chin\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sinead-oconnor-snl-pope-memoir-1174191\/\" target=\"_blank\">memoir<\/a>, <em>Rememberings,<\/em> is out today, and the singer has been making the morning chat show rounds, discussing everything from her infamous 1992 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X0VpfiMcPPA\" target=\"_blank\">appearance<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/black-twitter-snl-appropriation\/\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> to her conversion to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>On <em>The Today Show<\/em>, Carson Daly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/sinead-o-connor-opens-up-about-rises-to-the-top-career-controversies-114132549824\" target=\"_blank\">focused mainly<\/a> on the impact that <em>SNL <\/em>appearance had on her career. In 1992, O\u2019Connor was riding high on the success of her cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/her-prince-oscars-tribute\/\">Prince<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0-EF60neguk\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing Compares 2 U<\/a>.\u201d Then she famously ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II on live TV to protest sexual abuse in the Catholic church. \u00a0The incident supposedly derailed her career, but O\u2019Connor insists it actually got her back on track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinead O\u2019Connor was never meant to be a pop star,\u201d she tells Daly. \u201cI was really a protest singer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor also reveals that the photo she shredded was actually taken off of her abusive mother\u2019s bedroom wall. \u201cIt was a way of ripping her up as well, I guess,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sinead O&#039;Connor On Her Muslim Faith, Music, Her Childhood &amp; Surprising Kissogram Past | GMB\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkjoMjKU_yM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the UK\u2019s <em>Good Morning Britain<\/em>, O\u2019Connor talked religion with hosts Adil Ray and Ranvir Singh. The singer converted to Islam in 2018 and now says she feels as though she\u2019s <em>always <\/em>been a Muslim: \u201cIt does say in the Koran for those that are real Muslims, you know, that you will feel when you read it like you always were a Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor says that while she\u2019s studied different religious theologies her entire life, she came to Islam late, due in part to her own prejudices. \u201cI had bought into the nonsense that people talk about Islam,\u201d she explains. \u201cBut as a theologist then, when I got to look at just Chapter 2 of the Koran\u2026the intelligence of the scripture, the intelligence of the way Allah uses language\u2014to me, that showed that it could only have been supernaturally written. There is no human being on earth could have put together the language and composition of the Koran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also talked about the ways that music and religion have always been intertwined for her, from the profound feelings she would experience singing Christmas carols as a child to hearing the Muslim call to prayer, which she calls the most hopeful song she\u2019s ever heard. \u201cI used to listen to it for years every night before shows before I even studied Islam,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know what the people were saying when they were reciting it, and it still was very moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to <em>Rememberings<\/em>, O\u2019Connor plans to release a new album, her first since 2014, in the fall and embark on a concert tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":25013,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) 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