Thanks for posting this, I came up with a dead link to it earlier.
It’s true he is demurring from the message, but why is he considering it? Isn’t this demurral a reflection, perhaps, of his personal struggle? One which he lost?
Maybe only his psychiatrist would know. Maybe he studied the evil and depravity that is mohammadanism so deeply and thoroughly it tipped his already damaged mind right over the edge.
Maybe he was under the influence of a hallucinatory substance, maybe he was hypnotized...