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| Born | Adnan Mohammed al-Aroor 1948 (age 76–77) CE / 1368 AH[1] |
| Nationality | Syrian |
| Occupation(s) | Scientific director for research and publishing inRiyadh andSalafi cleric |
| Children | 11 (3 girls and 8 boys)[1] |
| Website | www |
Shaykh Adnan Mohammed al-Aroor (Arabic:الشيخ عدنان محمد العرعور, born 1948) is aSalafi[2]scholar fromHama,Syria. He is one of the symbolic figures of the anti-governmentSyrian uprising.[3]
al-Aroor appears regularly on TV stations in Saudi Arabia, including the widely watched satellite channel al-Safa, where he is known for his programs criticizing non-Salafi Islamic majorities fighting with the government.[4] He became widely known and promoted after the start of theSyrian Revolution as the non-official face of the anti-government movement in Syria. He favors arming theSyrian opposition and a foreign military intervention.[4][5]
According toThe Economist: "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.[6]
Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi, Nabil Al-Awadi,Tariq Abdelhaleem, andHani al-Sibai who are linked to Al-Qaeda, 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.[7]
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