Former Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah says ISIS is offshoot of “Salafiya”

    The former Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Shaykh Adel Kalbani, said in a recent television interview with the Emirati channel MBC that ISIS are an offshoot of the Salafi movement, but are being exploited and used as pawns by security services, of which country he did not specify.

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