Anti-Subjugator

"Passenger Zahida Kakachi recalls Lofti calmly converting two woman to Islam, herself and another woman, though Kakachi was only pretending so that she would not enrage or upset Lofti"

This is the exact correct thing to do. There were some very confused people (terrorists) on board the flight. They are incapable of understanding that a person's religion is unimportant and trying to convert everyone to your religion is the sign of being a complete nutcase. It is also completely harmless to pretend to convert to Islam to placate these people to try to defuse the situation.

That's also the correct reaction after 9/11. Although it would only take a few minutes for America to turn every Islamic country into a glass desert, that is not the humane action to take. The humane action is to de-escalate the situation by massive (temporary/faked) conversion to Islam. The new converts would then be in a position to personally demonstrate how to "interpret" Islam the same way they previously "interpreted" Christianity.

After the crisis is over and the bad Muslims (non-Christian-like) have been converted to good Muslims (Christian-like), it doesn't matter if the fake/temporary Muslims revert back to Christianity, as the competition for converts would be over.

This is why I converted to Islam as soon as I was sure Islam wasn't the enemy, because I had the true enemy isolated in message 666. And all I needed to do was "interpret" Islam such that it meant what secular humanism had derived in message 666.