The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.

In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.

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    Yeah, you are still pinning her for her belief in Islam because members of Islam have been and continue being vile detestable people. But they aren’t vile detestable people because of their belief in Islam any more than the Christians, Catholic or otherwise, are evil because of their belief in Christianity. They are vile and detestable people regardless of their belief. Their religious beliefs isn’t the source, though it does end up being a justification for those acts. But that’s just sophistry used to cover their own prejudices.

    She dumped Christianity and chose a different religion. That doesn’t make her culpable for the evils of that religion any more than anyone else is for the deeds of others who believe in the same religion they do.

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        I don’t think her switching religions had a detrimental effect on her mental health. Probably quite the opposite. And it really doesn’t matter that she switched from one mainstream religion to another mainstream religion. It’s not like joining an offshoot’s going to be any better or worse. She was seeking peace. Maybe she found it, maybe she didn’t, that’s for her to decide in whatever afterlife she ended up in.

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            Did you read anything else? She converted to Islam in 2018/2019. Her mental breakdown happened in 2017 and was mostly a result of losing custody of her kid.

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              Did you read anything else? She converted to Islam in 2018/2019. Her mental breakdown happened in 2017 and was mostly a result of losing custody of her kid.

              Right, one mental break about sums up her mental issues. /s

              So you didn’t read shit and now disingenuously just use info you consider helpful stanning islam while achieving the opposite. Please go on, every little step weaking any religion is worthwile.

              In the unlikely even anyone has read this far: Please check out the health section of her Wikipedia page and compare it to the sad comment above.

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                I was referring to the mental breakdown that institutionalized her. Which is even listed in that health section you’re so obsessed with. But there’s far more to it and her conversion to Islam if you had read anything besides the Wikipedia page. She was pretty vocal about her reasons for converting and she was fairly adamant about how much becoming Muslim helped her mentally.

                But feel free to continue with your prejudices based on little to no information.