I like your scenario. Hangs together well. I buy it all except the “handsome” part. I have never seen this quality in the one. “Disarming” maybe but not my idea of attractive or handsome. Certainly not manly. Of course I gag whenever all the fashion mags rave about how stylish and lovely Moochelle is...
Also the pre-Chicago days, which are lengthy. His buddies at Occidental (who put him up) were Pakistanis. He is photographed seated next to one, I mean right next, on a love seat. This guy (Monsoor?) hosted him on a tour of Pakistan, and who only knows where else? Set him up with lots of Muslim backers which have carried him forward. He had enough Muslim cachet to impress them, and they put up enough walkin’-aroun-money to impress him, apparently for life, and much to our detriment.