Traveling into a combat zone to disparage and disrupt your own nation's military service members, while simultaneously giving sympathetic aid and comfort to enemy COMBATANTS, does not fit ANY definition of "peacemaker," biblical or otherwise.
I have to respect him for believing in something so much that he put his own life on the line.
By that argument, you must also respect suicide bombers. Or the 9/11 hijackers. Or "Rat Boy" (Jihad Johnny Walker Lindh). How about spies and traitors within our military and government who aid our enemies because they believe America is evil?
I believe you are 100% correct. Those claiming his Christian identity are trusting in the name of Christ and not seeing the humanistic nature of the apostate church.