I’m not sure if any Muslim ‘clerics’ have tried to spin this yet, but al-Baghdadi’s suicide was not an act of jihad. He killed himself and three children to avoid capture — no virgins or paradise for him.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, by detonating his suicide vest when he realized he was trapped in a dead-end tunnel, did not commit a mass killing that would send him to paradise and 72 virgins. Quite the opposite: it leads to hell. He did not kill himself fighting the infidels. He killed himself running away from them. Which is not only a suicide, and Islam prohibits suicide, but a cowardly act in the fight against the enemy of Allah, which too is a sin, in Islam.
You’d think that an austere religious scholar like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would know that? I guess the founder of ISIS wasn’t the great caliph he claimed.
So, off to hell, he goes, according to his beliefs. Right where he belongs.
