But first, Mr. El-Hage, 52, was allowed to deliver a speech that was part religious sermon and part jailhouse legal seminar.
I would not be asked, as a junior reporter, to go on an undercover assignment to a mosque to eavesdrop in on a religious sermon.
When the khutbah lost its informative, political, and discursive character and became a purely religious sermon during the reign of the ʿAbbāsid caliphs, the minbar also became a religious object.
In one scene the fundamentalist Khaled and his friend crash in on the grandfather and several of his grandchildren, believing they were planning to watch a racy film, only to find the grandfather giving a religious sermon.
Earlier, in a 1962 religious sermon in Los Angeles, King counseled against anger and hate, saying, "There is another way... as modern as Gandhi saying through Thoreau, that 'non‑cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.'" King read the works of Gandhi and quoted him throughout his life.
His feud with Mr Godane - who refused to anoint him as "spiritual leader" - boiled over last year when Mr Aweys used a Friday religious sermon to accuse al-Shabab's top brass, as Somali journalist Abdi Aynte wrote at the time, of "monopolising jihad, globalising the Somali conflict, assassinating innocent Somalis and, more damningly, acting in a manner unbecoming of upright jihadists".
Porn sits beside religious sermons.
CD stores selling anything other than religious sermons face a similar fate.
Religious sermons used to be more challenging; trade unions less selfish; schools, untroubled.
Courtney's oldest book in his store right now is a 1618 book of religious sermons in English.
There were musical interludes, most poignantly from a children's choir, religious sermons and lighter moments too.
