The famous singer’s life encapsulates the various phases Islam has gone through in Ireland.
Her life as a Muslim woman has received a mixed response in Ireland. But what Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri—the Islamic scholar and the Chief Imam at the Islamic Centre of Ireland, who delivered the eulogy at O'Connor's funeral—remembers most, is O’Connor’s probing questions about the religion.In 2018, O’Connor reached out to Qadri saying that she had questions about Islam, which he thought were of a very deep nature.
“She wanted to proclaim the taqbeer and shahada, and say the azaan to express her emotion at that moment in her life. Even though the azaan is only said by men, I allowed it,” Qadri says, adding that she already knew quite a bit about Sufi music and the late Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. When Mitha came to Ireland in the late 1980s, she came across many people who were interested to learn about her background, especially because of their shared history of British colonialism.
In recent years, Mitha says Ireland has gotten richer and hence identifies more strongly with mainland Europe, which also means taking on some of the European hostility towards Muslims. “The belief that ‘to be brothers, there must be others’ is now visible here,” she says.Muslims in Ireland come from diverse backgrounds without the predominance of any specific ethnic or cultural group.
“They were experimenting with alcohol and drugs. They were attending festivals where they would encounter migrants, and found them exotic, and connected with them. They were attracted to that difference,” says Shanneik.
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