LONDON (AP) — Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and said she has changed her name to Shuhada' Davitt. 
 
 The 51-year-old has been posting selfies of herself wearing hijabs on Twitter in recent days, as well as a video in which she sang the Azan, or call to prayer. 
 
 She tweeted on Oct. 19: "This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant." 
 
 The singer ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II during a Saturday Night Live appearance in 1992 as a protest against the Catholic Church. 
 
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 This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. ||||| This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. 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’ ||||| Special Forces ; ) Replies to my tweets will not be read. All photos or videos of myself, posted by myself, were shot by myself and I own the copyright. Thanks 
 
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– Another major life change for Sinead O'Connor: The Irish singer, who legally changed her name to Magda Davitt last year, now has another new name—and a new religion. "This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim," she tweeted last week. "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." She later tweeted a selfie of herself in a hijab, the AP reports. On Thursday, Irish Imam Shaykh Dr Umar al-Qadri tweeted a video of the singer reciting the Muslim declaration of faith in the Islamic Center of Ireland, the BBC reports. "We pray that Allah grants her Peace in all aspects of this life and hereafter," he said in another tweet. "She has a truthful soul." O'Connor—who posted a video of herself singing the Islamic call to prayer on YouTube—has long had a complicated relationship with religion. In 1992, she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live. In 1999, she was ordained as a priest by a breakaway Catholic group and said she wished to be called Mother Bernadette Mary. (Years later, she explained why she ripped up the photo.)