Shaykh Adnan Mohammed al-Aroor (, born 1948) is a

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from

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. He is one of the symbolic figures of the anti-government Syrian uprising. al-Aroor appears regularly on TV stations in

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, including the widely watched satellite channel al-Safa, where he is known for his programs criticizing non-Salafi Islamic majorities fighting with the government. He became widely known and promoted after the start of the

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as the non-official face of the anti-government movement in Syria. With a net worth of 1.8 million dollars, he favors arming the

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and a foreign military intervention. According to ''

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'': "Those who tuned in to Mr Arour's weekly show were attracted less by his Sunni triumphalism than by his theatrical appeals for all Syrians to rise and fight, something opposition intellectuals in exile neglected to do. But as Syria's misery has ground on, sectarian fault lines have inexorably widened. Mr Arour's views, once widely dismissed as extreme, now look closer to the terrorism and extremism, at least among the three-quarters of Syrians who are Sunni Muslims". Aroor fled Syria after losing support due to extremist salafist views which promoted sectarian hatred and genocide. After the Sunni rebels conquered Damascus, he has returned to Syria ending his 53 years of exile, according to Zahid Akhtar from DOAM- Documenting Oppression Against Muslim. Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi, Nabil Al-Awadi, Tariq Abdelhaleem, and Hani al-Sibai who are linked to Al-Qaeda (not Adnan Al-Aroor), in addition to others like Adnan al-Aroor, Abd Al-Aziz Al-Fawzan, Mohamad al-Arefe, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al Shaykh and others were included on a death list by ISIS.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aroor, Adnan 1948 births Living people Syrian television personalities People of the Syrian civil war Syrian Sunni clerics People from Hama Syrian emigrants to Saudi Arabia Syrian Salafis