Yeah it sounds like someone trying so hard to “Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide” that he perhaps inadvertantly crossed over to the darkside unwittingly. I will give him the benefit of doubt at his point until evidence leads me away from this stance.
It wasn’t entirely clear to me from the press release, which I only skimimed, that he entirely knew about this. He could have been set up. Having said that, however, I doubt it. He seems like a smart emough man who should have known what was going on, so I assume he did.
When I think really hard about world peace while driving I might drift toward the shoulder of the road a bit. This guy ended up in Libya.