In a meeting attended by 97 from a total of 115 members, the Syrian National Coalition on Saturday 14/09/2013 in Istanbul chose Dr. Ahmed Saleh Touma al-Khadr for the position of the head of an interim government in exile, whose first mission is to take over the management of the areas under control of the rebel fighters. He was the only nominee for the position. Touma is an independent Islamist and a former preacher from the founders of the Damascus Declaration in 2005, which calls for "safe, gradual, peaceful change in Syria, and transferring Syria from its state of despotism to a state of democracy". Both Salim Idris and Ahmad al-Jarba have been pushing for his election, which then took place with 75 votes. It is expected that Touma chooses an interim government of 13 ministers to manage the Syrian areas controlled by armed groups. Touma said after his election: "The priority for this government will be to restore stability in the liberated areas and to improve living conditions and provide security." He stressed that "Syria will be for all Syrians, and will not be a place for killers and criminals." Touma's assistant said: "The opposition is under international pressure to enhance its credibility, and the goal is that the coalition becomes more like a parliament, while the government works as an executive authority."

Touma's government comes to fill the time gap, such that America frees itself from the organization of the conditions to create a transitional government in the Geneva Convention and its likes, as a result of negotiations between the coalition and the regime. This is to find a subsequent agent ruler to take the place of the preceding agent ruler! This is what America is up to, after the talk of a strike and chemical weapons and its ramifications... Therefore it is not expected from Touma's government to take decisive positions, rather America entrusted it with the role of harassing anyone that works for Islam in Syria... It seems that things are moving in this direction. Khaled al-Khoja, a member of the Syrian National Coalition, said that the interim government will have to prove itself quickly, otherwise the whole coalition would be undermined in favor of the most radical Islamists.

Thus, the formation of this government will not see the light as long as America does not want it to. If America views such an interim government to benefit its plan to hit the Islamists before the formation of the transitional government and to engage in the process of solution through the gate of Geneva 2, they will go forth with. What will help their stance is that all regional and international systems of governance that are pro-American in particular or pro-Western in general, all of these systems are going in the direction of striking the Islamic movement that is prominent in Syria today.  Everyone has conspired against the Muslims in Syria who are free of guilt, except that they believe in Allah, the Mighty, the Benignant. Therefore they chose Touma, the owner of an Islamic face, for presidency of the interim government, such that they are free to organize the conditions for the Geneva Conference and create the transitional government.

Oh Muslims in Syria as-Sham, the abode of Islam: The West and their lackeys from the Muslim rulers in the region conspire against you because they are afraid of the establishment of the rule by what Allah has revealed in Syria, and prefer the survival of the criminal Syrian regime to rule. There are serious attempts to hit the Islamic movement in Syria and to eliminate those who represent it. This preoccupies the West, because it is a threat to its colonial project in the region, and to the tyrant regimes in the Muslim countries, since it will overthrow their devilish thrones. The Muslims in Syria should beware of all those gathered and scattered, and of all those they utilize from personalities and groups, and of the aid they provide under the pretext of compassion, while its true intention being a torment. Working for the West and betraying the Ummah and the Deen is what controls all the actions of the Muslim rulers, even as they pretend to help the Muslims. All of them, and especially the rulers of the Gulf States who have taken humiliating positions towards the issues of the Ummah, are working to purchase the consciences with their money, conditioning to accept the civil state and not to demand the Islamic state in exchange for arms... Indeed, what they are doing is a great evil.

Oh Muslims in Syria ash-Sham, the abode of Islam: The Western conspiracy against us has reached a level that leaves no excuse to the Muslim for not calling attention to it and standing up against it. Those malicious rulers who govern us add to our pain, because if they only wanted to, they could have provided money and weapons to prevent our tragedy. But they remain deedless, because they have received their orders from the embassies. There is no way out for us except to unite to establish what Allah imposed on us from the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" State, which will rid us from all the Western caused tragedies. Hizb ut Tahrir calls on the Muslims in Syria, as in other Muslim countries, to work with it to establish the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate", whose existence has become a matter of life or death for Muslims on top of it being a Shar'i obligation.

Allah (swt) says:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَنْ يَرْتَدَّ مِنْكُمْ عَنْ دِينِهِ فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِي اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَهُ أَذِلَّةٍ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَعِزَّةٍ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ يُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلَا يَخَافُونَ لَوْمَةَ لَائِمٍ ذَلِكَ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ وَاسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ * إِنَّمَا وَلِيُّكُمُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا الَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَهُمْ رَاكِعُونَ * وَمَنْ يَتَوَلَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فَإِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْغَالِبُونَ * يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا دِينَكُمْ هُزُوًا وَلَعِبًا مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ وَالْكُفَّارَ أَوْلِيَاءَ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ

"O you who have believed, whoever of you should revert from his religion - Allah will bring forth [in place of them] a people He will love and who will love Him [who are] humble toward the believers, powerful against the disbelievers; they strive in the cause of Allah and do not fear the blame of a critic. That is the favor of Allah; He bestows it upon whom He wills. And Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing. Your ally is none but Allah and [therefore] His Messenger and those who have believed - those who establish prayer and give zakah, and they bow [in worship]. And whoever is an ally of Allah and His Messenger and those who have believed - indeed, the party of Allah - they will be the predominant. O you who have believed, take not those who have taken your religion in ridicule and amusement among the ones who were given the Scripture before you nor the disbelievers as allies. And fear Allah, if you should [truly] be believers." [Al-Ma'ida, 5:54-57]