AMMAN
Jordanian hardline Muslim preacher Omar Othman, better known as Abu Qatada, said Sunday that the actions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group are "evil," slamming its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as "misguided" and a "liar."
"The extremist followers of the misguided al-Baghdadi represent the sedition that only befalls the ignorant," Abu Qatada, who adheres to a strict Salafist-Jihadist ideology, said on his accounts on Facebook and Twitter.
Abu Qatada's statements came as a response to a question posed by a member of the Nusra Front militant group in the Syrian area of Ghouta, in which the latter asked the preacher for advice for the fact that some Nusra members in eastern Ghouta are sympathetic to ISIL.
"They [ISIL] are not from us, and we don't belong to them," he added.
Abu Qatada was deported last year from the U.K. to Jordan where he was released from prison in September after having been found not guilty of terrorism charges.
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