article_snippet.sent: Outspoken: Abdul Hadi Arwani had taken part in a demonstration against President Assad three years ago .
article_snippet.sent: the truth's not going to be because Mr Arwani was against Assad.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Arwani was known for Mr Arwani outspoken opposition to the Assad regime .
article_snippet.sent: One also said that Mr Arwani had visited Syria 10 times in recent years but had been ordered by the Turkish government to stop and had been questioned by security services at an airport there.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Khaled Kamaraldi, who gave Mr Arwani his first job as a builder 15 years ago, said: 'his went out to Syria to educate the fighters about the treatment of prisoners of war and about human rights. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Arwani said: 'Mr Arwani was definitely anti-Assad,
article_snippet.sent: But Mr Arwani wasn’t necessarily Assad biggest enemy here in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Arwani was involved in violent anti-Assad demonstrations outside the Syrian Embassy in London in 2012 .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Arwanigrew up in Hama, the site of a notorious 1982 massacre where up to 40,000 civilians were killed by the Syrian Army under the orders of Hafez al-Assad, the current president's father.
article_snippet.sent: In a lecture Mr Arwani gave in 2012, Mr Arwani described how the Assad regime had sentenced Mr Arwani to death, forcing Mr Arwani to flee Mr Arwani homeland, and then harassed Mr Arwani elderly relatives for three decades.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Arwani blamed the atrocities carried out by the Assad regime on the Assad regime supposed abandonment of Islam, saying that from the 1960s the Turkish governmentstarted to implement atheism, and take off Islam from the life of the people'.