I&#x27;d love to hear this more nuanced explanation.<p>You also comment else where about Menzio&#x27;s picture, where he wears a &quot;Yasser Arafat&quot; scarf. Another commenter has remarks on his hair and beard as well, claiming that the combination of Menzio&#x27;s dress and hair tripped the alarms of the passenger that reported him. Based on Menzio&#x27;s portrait, he looks like a bit of a hipster or one of the several colleagues I have that are too lazy to shave on a daily basis. His behaviour was probably best categorised as being rude.<p>The Washington Post article also says:
<i>&quot;Instead this quick-thinking traveler had Seen Something, and so she had Said Something. That Something she’d seen had been her seatmate’s cryptic notes, scrawled in a script she didn’t recognize.&quot;</i><p>And<p><i>&quot;Menzio showed the authorities his calculations and was allowed to return to his seat, he told me by email.&quot;</i><p>Clearly these events may not have been reported perfectly accurately, but there is nothing to suggest that any of the actions were reasonable. Also serious question: I also don&#x27;t understand how one mistakes calculus for the script of a foreign language. In my mind they do not look anything alike.