The more I think about it, the more I think this was staged to give the middle finger to normal people in middle America. If a normal kid in a skool doodles a picture of a gun in art class or brings a toy soldier to class, the authorities call in the S.W.A.T. team, the media are eager to label the kid a “terrorist” and he might be expelled from school and even get a criminal record.
Contrast this with the Muslim kid who took a clock, put its whole assembly in a case and fashioned something that any reasonable person would say looks like a bomb. Well, the Muslim boy is hailed as a genius for “inventing” a type of electronic clock. Really, what he did requires very little knowledge about electronics - he didn’t invent or really build anything. The narrative is, if a Muslim makes something that looks like a bomb then it can’t be a bomb and anyone who says it looked like a bomb is an anti-Muslim bigot. And by the way this is proof of how bigoted, hateful, and ignorant middle America is, for anyone to think that a box with a clock mechanism and wires hanging out looks like a bomb. So the establishment flunkies fall over themselves proclaiming how wonderful the Emperor’s New Clock is.
The lesson is that we are all dhimmies. Rules apply to you but they don’t apply to Muslims so you had better get used to it. Muslim can do anything and be praised for it while middle America is accused and condemned no matter what. This is a psy-ops campaign against the people of the United States.
I think you are right and I suspect most people who know the facts probably think the same thing.
The little bastard made a fake bomb knowing it would get him in trouble then he would be able to claim victim hood.