1. Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib Al-Hasani is a former president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
10 Facts About Moaz al-Khatib
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Moaz al-Khatib spent six years working for the Al-Furat Petroleum Company, Syria's main oil producer.
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Moaz al-Khatib is a member of the Syrian Geological Society and the Syrian Society for Psychological Science; he was president of the Islamic Society of Urbanization.
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Moaz al-Khatib taught Sharia at the Dutch Institute Sheikh Badr al-Din al-Husni in Damascus, and Daawa studies at the Tahzib Institute for Sharia Sciences, as well as traveling extensively to teach internationally.
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Moaz al-Khatib cared very deeply about the victims of the 1982 massacre [in the Syrian city of Hama].
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Moaz al-Khatib was always seeking for ways to house or educate those [survivors] that the state wanted killed or banished.
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Moaz al-Khatib is a supporter of Qatar-based Egyptian Sunni Muslim cleric and preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
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Moaz al-Khatib even placed al-Qaradawi on equal footing with the Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation marked beginning of the Arab Spring.
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Moaz al-Khatib was imprisoned several times for his criticism of the Syrian government during the ongoing armed uprising against President Bashar al-Assad before he fled the country and settled in Cairo.
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Moaz al-Khatib has called on the US to reconsider its 2012 decision to declare the Al-Nusra Front as a terrorist organization, describing Al-Nusra as an ally in the rebellion to topple the Assad government and refusing US requests to denounce Al-Nusra's tactics.