Prominent Muslim Preacher Denies He Used Ashley Madison, Despite Name, Address and Bank Info Showing Up in Hack

A prominent Islamic preacher named Hamza Andreas Tzortzis says his personal information was leaked in the recent Ashley Madison hack – but insists that he's never used the adultery website.

Hamza Andreas Tzortzis (Image source: Express via Facebook)

Tzortzis, who sympathized with a group that called for an Islamic "caliphate" as recently as 2010, wrote in a Facebook post that his name, address and bank card details were among the millions published last week, the U.K.'s Express reported.

"This is an obvious case of fraud. My email address (this website doesn't verify emails and all the relevant emails went to junk) can be found online and so can my address, as it is linked to my business account, which is registered online. My date of birth is known from either previous lectures or Facebook," Tzortzis wrote.

The Facebook post is no longer visible but one Reddit user archived the post here.

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Image source: Facebook via Imgur

Tzortzis says his whereabouts and activities are traceable and recorded, and that his professional and social meetings are public and with people who can confirm his presence. He went on to speculate as to who might be responsible.

"It could have been someone who knows me, someone who hates me, or a malicious person who found out who I was," Tzortzis wrote. "It could be one person or two, they could be working locally, from abroad or both."

He further denied that he used the website to find another wife, which is allowed under Islam, but heavily criticized by him in the past.

Tzortzis once said that anyone who does not convert to Islam should be punished and that "beheading is painless," both statements for which he later apologized, the Express reported.

But the Muslim preacher has taken a much more conservative stance than others, having also once said that "sex outside of marriage, wife-swapping and swingers parties" are not within "the Islamic vision of society."

He has also called homosexuality a "crime" and compared it with cannibalism, paedophilia and incest, according to the Express. Tzortzis was associated with the Islamic political party, Hizb ut Tahrir, which advocates for all Muslim countries to unite under one ruler.

(H/T: Express)

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