You lead the prayers

Here is a subtle one. It seems to me that bin Laden's friend, Jamal Khalifa, chooses an interesting manner of letting us know bin Laden is not someone he would expect to be a leader: he tells us that Osama would defer to others to lead the prayers. As it happens, the matter of deciding who shall lead the prayers also crops up in hadith describing the end times, when the Mahdi first defers to Jesus and invites him to lead them, and Jesus then defers in turn to the Mahdi (see Sahih Muslim, Book 1, No. 0293).

Gracious manners are of some significance in Islam: the prophet Mohammed was known for his courtesy.