As a Muslim, I found nothing that Conor said or done particularly offensive to Islam. Yes, he handed Khabib a drink fully knowing he was Muslim and called him backward, but people are acting like Conor was insulting the prophet (PBUH) or the Koran. He was being Conor. It wasn't his fault that Dana White didn't do anything after he attacked Khabib's bus, but that was in response to a prior confrontation between Khabib and Conor's sparring partner.
Conor's trash talking probably went too far, but he generated enough attention to make it Khabib's most lucrative fight. Khabib pretending like he's defending Islam is silly. He's not liberating Gaza or fighting the Romans. He's fighting in a sport that is a business first and foremost. People say he showed he was a "true gangster" in there. No, he came off as dense, naive, petty and mentally weak. Conor would have actually looked worse if he'd just shook his hand and buried the past. What an incredibly stupid person.
Confrontation between Khabib and Lobov was a response for Lobov disrespecting Khabib. He wasn't looking for Lobov on purpose with his friends, Lobov just happened to be there. Lobov could say "let's leave the building and talk one on one now" and Khabib couldn't refuse to do that, because if he refused that, it would be viewed as a coward move even by his own people. But Lobov was silent and shook, unable to say anything
There's more than just a religion. It's more about Khabib's family. Khabib is a Dagestani and pride in these places means a lot, especially pride of your family. They have blood feuds over there and you better think twice before talk about these people's families. Actually, when Conor started talking about Khabib's dad, I knew the peace can't be restored at that moment. It was a point of no return. If you say things Conor was saying about some dad or mom over there, you can get killed. Easily. These people have their own set of rules - let's say, if McGregor visits Russia now, it's not likely they will touch him at all - he will be viewed as a "guest" and they really value hospitality. So Conor might be safe there. But they wouldn't have no problem to get at him anywhere outside of their home. Talking about families, you shouldn't really go there if you deal with these people. Do that to Jose Aldo. I mean North Caucasus, Chechens and Dagestanis. Southern Caucasus (Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis) have same values but not to that extreme extent.
So if Khabib shaked McGregor hand and started being respectful after the fight, his own people wouldn't understand that. If he'd lose the fight, his people wouldn't approve that either. He basically had to humiliate Conor because Conor left him no choice with his talk. He was just raised that way which values family pride above business and materialistic things, some retaliation was supposed to happen. Sounds like bronze age for some people, but that's just the way they're raised in these regions.
I feel sorry for Conor, actually, he was promoting the fight and didn't mean 80% of the stuff he was saying. But that's just a clash of different cultures. It'd be much better for him if he wasn't trying to involve Khabib's dad and his ethnicity, that's the moment where it started getting serious. Ferguson would get a better treatment just because when Ferguson was talking trash to Khabib, it was about Khabib, not his father
It could be worse, if it wasn't Octagon and McGregor wasn't a celebrity. If Conor is smart, he should leave it at that, eat a crow and doesn't take this conflict further.