Pope Francis announced this week his decision to proceed with the
canonization of Islamic missionary Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. A controversial
figure, Baghdadi, according
to the Washington Post, “established Islamic missions … as he marched
North with [the] conquistadors.” A statue of Baghdadi, notes the Post,
was recently erected “in the Saudi Capitol”.
Francis informed
audiences present for the announcement that Baghdadi “was one of the
founding fathers of the Islamic State” and provides “a saintly example
of the Quran’s universality”.
Monsignor J. Michael McKiernan, rector of Islamic Basilica in Sinjar, Iraq, says while Baghdadi, like everyone, has “human flaws and difficulties and struggles”, his “overall … legacy [is] a positive one.”
“It’s not all happiness and grace. There have been some difficult times as well,” McKiernan said to Reuters TV.
“So some of the things that [the] Yazidis are concerned about are
very real and we don’t want to deny those, but also recognizing that
Baghdadi’s legacy [has] also brought beautiful things as we celebrate
here every single day.”
In contrast, Yazidi author Simon Moya-Smith points out
that Baghdadi “brutally beat[s] and whip[s] men, women and children in
order to force obedience among the Yazidi people” and “celebrate[s] the
demise of Yazidi children, referring to their deaths as a ‘harvest.’”
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