His conversion to Islam (in the form of sufism) was discussed on earlier threads about the attack shortly after it happened. He had apparently always had a fondness for Islam and Islamic countries, like many leftist intellectuals. I don’t know exactly at what point in his career he formally converted, but from what people said, it seemed as if he had not been a Sufi for a very long time, perhaps only since shortly before coming to Libya.
Sufis, of course, are very low on the Islamic totem pole and orthodox groups like al Qaeda hate them. However, I don’t think that was the reason for their attack.
He was actually very well liked by the less radical but still somewhat Islamist contingent.
The sole reason for their attack was that he was a symbol of the United States and the West and their attack showed how powerless we were against them.
I saw the various threads and peoples comments that made the claim. I have seen nothing from anything like his friends or family or even state. It is easy to make claims....harder to prove.
The meme going around now is that O planned a kidnapping by his muslim brotherhood friends and that it went terribly wrong. He was looking for an October miracle or something.
I just know that on 9/11 muslims attacked America yet again and the current dolts did nothing and tried to blame the first amendment for it