> In Ahmed's case, "real issue at hand" is paranoids flinching at terrorism in every shadow, exactly like this. I generally think people ought to try to avoid o

> In Ahmed's case, "real issue at hand" is paranoids flinching at terrorism in every shadow, exactly like this. I generally think people ought to try to avoid offensive speech, and if this had even remotely resembled an actual threat I would have been heartily against it, but no reasonable person could have felt threatened here. This is exactly the same kind of thinking that says it's perfectly normal for someone to get cavity-searched for saying the word "bomb" in an airport. Well said. In this particular instance I feel it's more likely that whoever reported this incident did so out of malice (due to either a personal grudge or some psychopathic tendency) than a fear for safety, precisely because I can't imagine anyone reading the comment in that context genuinely taking it as a bomb threat. And it saddens me that whoever it was clearly got the result they wanted.