Well I could believe it. A local yokel Moose who suddenly is getting enamored of a notorious foreign jihadist could prove a loose cannon that could even turn on his own mosque for being “insufficiently Islamic.” As long as they have sects that fight, that possibility looms. The treachery implicit in taqqiya cuts all directions.
I am not ready to twist my back in bending to accommodate a more complicated explanation. I subscribe more to Occam’s Razor more than I do convoluted subterfuge and mystique.