Humanizing the spokesperson of the terrorist state of Israel in the US: you knew this was coming

"There, he hung on his wall an Israeli flag given to his father by a Miss Israel during a beauty pageant in Miami Beach. The flag led to debates and friendships with Muslims, one of whom visited Mr. Dermer’s Miami Beach home for a Seder and returned to Pakistan with boxes of matzo."  So is the New York Times telling us that "his best friends are Muslims"?