The police investigation found that in the last quarter of 2009 Choudhry began downloading from the internet sermons and material from Anwar al-Awlaki, the Islamist cleric who western officials say is the spiritual leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
As a dancer, he was flat; as a musician, there was no music; as a charmer, there was no charm in his presence; as a preacher, there was no ecstasy in his sermon, no shouting material whatever, no call for response.
The FBI has concluded that Farook and Malik separately radicalized on the Internet as early as 2011, largely from English-language sermons and other material posted online by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
But Gurnah is not preaching, although he has enough material for several sermons; he is listening hard to accounts of exile, and especially to those of Saleh Omar, who was a refugee long before he left his country.
Imagine clergy selling DVDs of their sermons in which copyrighted material is occasionally read.
His act becomes the subject of sermons in mosques, and provides material for leaflets, posters, videos, demonstrations, and extensive coverage in the media.
"We pioneered taking clips from movies and partnering them with detailed sermon outlines, illustrations and resource materials that pastors could utilize at their choosing," said Jonathan Bock, founder and president of Grace Hill Media.
One comment as Strang alleges? Bruce Wilson, the investigative journalist who first put together the video of Hagee's Hitler sermon, has uncovered more anti-Jewish material tucked away in the Hagee archives..
When Luke presents some of that same material it is called the sermon on the plain.
