If he was in the terminal stage of AIDS or cancer, he may have decided to go out with a bang. Dying in jihad is the ONLY guaranteed way for a Muslim to get into the Islamic Paradise.
Homosexuality is rampant in Islam and not eschewed as people think. Madrasahs, like the ones Obama attended as a youth, are hotbeds of homosexuality (not pun intended) which would explain why Homosexuals are not going after mosques demanding them to serve sodomite weddings. They are cozy bedfellows (no pun intended) and both share a desire to destroy Christianity/Judaism.