Talk to Al Jazeera - Former al-Qaeda Mufti: I condemn ISIL attacks

A former religious advisor to Osama bin Laden, Abu Hafs al-Mauritani has joined a chorus of Muslims in condemning the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, denouncing its recent attacks in Paris as going against the tenets of Islam. In his first interview to an English-TV audience, Mauritani tells Al Jazeera’s Sami Zeidan that ISIL has “misunderstood“ Islam, just as people in the West might “misunderstand Christianity“. “Islam forbids the killing of innocent people, regardless of whether they