Once Awadallah agrees to convert, he is paraded around the streets.[1] Sheikh Sayid al-Hasari, a Sufi preacher,[2] condemns the forced conversion ceremony.[4] Caesar wrote that the sheikh believed that the men "are utterly unaware that" by forcing Awadallah "they are violating the spirit of their own religion. They are not evil, but mindless."[3] Ali Effendi and the town mayor also condemn it.