"Lucky you didn't have a Koran hanging on the wall for toilet paper!"
That was lucky.
He could be of the Lewis Farrakan sect of American black muslims who are willing to believe such things as flying cylinders orbiting the earth and advising sir Farrakan. Also, the Cynthia McKinney arena that believes the CIA peddles crack in the inner city and AIDS was started in a laboratory to kill African blacks. Maybe someone who knows more about this than me can add.
IOW, maybe this guy wasn't all that typical.