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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The ongoing confrontations between fighters of Islamist hardliner groups such as Al Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, and the Free Syrian Army in Syrian towns is a "necessary evil," considering the difference in method and ideology, a senior Salafi leader in Jordan said.

Mohammad Al-Shalabi, known as Abu Sayyaf, a leader in the Jihadi Salafi movement in Jordan, justified in statements to Ammon News on Saturday that the significant variance in ideology amongst anti-Syrian regime groups necessarily leads to confrontations.

"The Free Syrian Army wants to implement a democratic system in Syria, whereas Al Nusra Front, Al Qaeda, and the Salafi Jihadi movement want to implement Islamic Shariah based on the holy Qur'an," Abu Sayyaf said, noting that this difference in ideology inevitably leads to confrontations between the groups in different strongholds throughout Syria.

"Let us all agree on a method and approach to confront and eliminate the Syrian regime, then we may reach solutions based on common grounds," Abu Sayyaf stressed in statements to Ammon News.

He added that if the Free Syrian Army implements the Shariah and adopts the Quran as a constitution, "we would be soldiers in their front lines."

A prominent leader of the Free Syrian Army was killed on Friday reportedly by fighters affiliated with Al-Qaeda movement, prompting the Free Syrian Army to consider the assassination a "declaration of war," spurring up a new fighting front for Syrian opposition forces whose main concern is to topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Disputes between radical Islamist fighters and the Free Syrian Army escalated recently especially in northern towns and villages controlled by the opposition forces, but are also hotbeds for radical Islamist fighters.

Member of the Free Syrian Army Supreme Military Council Kamal Hamami was killed on Thursday in the port city of Latakia, instigating clashes between Free Syrian Army forces and Islamist fighters reportedly associated with Al-Qaeda.