Obituary: Atta Elayyan was killed on March 15th

economist.com

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This obituary turns an anonymous "Muslim victim" into the portrait of an admirable, wholesome human being, whom I can eerily relate to, despite being an atheist who is weary of Islam.

I applaud that The Economist wrote this weekly obituary. It puts a crack into the us-vs them narrative that the perpetrator undoubtedly wanted to exploit by murdering Muslim worshipers.

There is no offense at this, that most people everywhere are just ordinary schmucks that suffer the world they are born into. If you were born into a world where decency comes easy you should be thankful of it. We all like to think we would rise above it but more than likely that's a mixture of hope, denial and lies we tell ourselves.

That said refugees Muslim or whatever often come because they themselves are weary of the bullshit imposed on them. And mostly these people are already victims.

Paywalling obituaries is probably a really offensive use of paywalls.

I don’t meant to be insensitive but who exactly is he? I’ve googled the name and found nothing of real note other than a Wikipedia entry that was created on March 16th this year following the shooting with references to some local news papers.

I don't exactly follow. The article is just an obituary. Are you asking why The Economist published his, as opposed to other victims?

No, I’ve seen this on reddit as well I understand he died and it’s tragic but everything was written after March 16th including every source on his Wikipedia and the entry itself this looks like a PR campaign not an obituary.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19426291

This is exactly what I’m saying all fresh accounts, all fresh sources.

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