unfriendly skies

the ongoing battle with jahan and his 405 (and counting) detractors goes on. (by the way, i linked it so that people will hopefully go through the archives and at least try to understand what is up with him. that's a hint, go take it.) though the war has slightly abated, there are still more and more stupid, humorous, and discriminating insults that are even more uncalled for than the post itself, being heaped on top of each other by the sincerely angry and the vandals alike.

thank God for the smarter rebuttals.

taking piccio's theory into mind (second time i linked him, by the way), this whole issue reminds me of a certain episode of CSI. an old man was found dead in the lavatory of an airplane, and this is how he died.

the old man was being a natural jerk to the other passengers of the plane. at first they thought nothing of it and politely asked him to stop, but he kept on being a jerk until the passengers got really pissed at him. push came to shove and the passengers beat the old guy to death as a mob, because they thought he was a terrorist.

but what really happened was that the old man was suffering from a killer migraine due to encephalitis (for those lazy enough to read another page, encephalitis is a swelling of the brain.) and when you get a migraine, you feel uncomfortable. so the old man is squirming in his seat, kicking the backs of other seats, squashing the call button. he gets on a few people's nerves, and unintentionally acts like a hijacker. this is what ticks off the other passengers, and this is what leads to the mob that kills him.

the thing is, this whole incident could have been avoided. and i'll quote gil grissom verbatim:

GRISSOM:  If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy
to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him it might not have
happened.  It took five people to kill him.  It would have only taken one person
to save his life.

see the resemblance to the situation? if people hadn't seen him as a "fat muslim boy" but as a human being just like them, he wouldn't have been so antisocial and he wouldn't have written that entry.