Exactly. this is totally inexcusable as far as I'm concerned. But, unfortunately, not surprising.
a. He was a westerner and a Jew.
b. These people he was going to see were neither, in fact were Islamic and thus mindless animals if they confront someone of different culture;
c. Pakistan is in the 14th century, and Islam is mostly still in the 7th. He should have set his watch back 700 to 1400 years when he landed, and he put it off thinking it unimportant.