Posted on 09/22/2015 7:13:47 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The original story was about a controversial package in a school setting, but it was quickly claimed to be a homemade clock. If so, the clock itself (not the presentation) might be cool as the White House said. If not, the world may be propping up a plagiarist who flaunted the piece of crap in an intentionally controversial way (suppositions). This video challenges that the clock was homemade by showing a nearly identical package being prepared in about twenty seconds (screws and simple fasteners were excluded for brevity here). [please see brief 20 second video at link]
"So there you have it folks. Just take an ordinary unassuming household appliance, gut it and then reassemble it unnecessarily into a conspicuous form factor, set the alarm to go off during English class, after being explicitly advised by your Engineering teacher not to share it with others... and then voila. Viral fame and a deluge of praise heaped upon you by exploiting the sympathy of fake liberals and sanctimonious grandstanding heads of industry trying to gain political capital out of your charade. Free college tuition to top universities, invited to the White House to meet the president. SJW's stumbling over themselves to be the first to bow at your feet, and flagellate themselves and everyone else for the heinous sin of thinking something that looks like a case bomb could be a case bomb."
The left took advantage of this to brand all Christians and Jews as Muslim haters.
One person, one event. Applied to an entire population. That’s the left’s tactic.
Looks like the family is withdrawing from school and headed to Saudi for a tour of Mecca. Getting the hell out of dodge—I wonder why. Could it be that the boy “genius” is no genius at all and they know that people are on to them? Don’t think he could do to well at MIT.
I think people don’t care about the facts, just the politics (as usual).
Hmmmmm .... I wonder if Imam Obama (pbuh) has learned of the hoax and has banished the family to Saudi in order to conveniently render the White House invitation void and thereby preserve his dignity.
Lighten up! This needs to be posted near and far until all are forced to notice.
Surprise! Mohamed the guest of honor at Google Science Fair!! OMG!!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/09/21/ahmed-mohamed-google-science-fair-clock/72594140/
The kid was just a little too gleeful at all the attention. People just don’t like liars and that’s probably why he had to withdraw, not because he’s a Muslim.
Prediction: Clock boy and his father will have an epiphany in Mecca and will not be back.
Totally agree. Just because something is posted one time doesn’t mean that it will be viewed a day or two or weeks later. Who goes back that far on reading the articles unless they are specifically looking for something? I look at the current crop of postings. I missed this particular one the first and apparently second time it was posted.
When they leave , they will have a state-of-the-art 3-D printer by contributed by micro$oft .
Somehow , the significance of the timeing of this incident seems to elude most folks - the fact that it occurred in proximity to 9/11 .
It sorta denies the Homeland Security mantra of : " If you see something , ..say something " .. unless they are Muslum !
Given that this is a Radio Shack product, this kid didn't invent anything , but he got a lot of press and media coverage, but no correction is being said by media.
Of course no correction by the media. They have just quit talking about it. Typical. Thank goodness for the internet.
These Muslims are always depicted as “impoverished” refugees from war-torn homelands...... but these Muslims seem to have a lot of money to travel back and forth.
How many US govt checks are the nerdy bomb-maker’s family collecting? What’s their game? How much of our tax dollars are financing their nefarious game?
HERE’S A TYPICAL REFUGEE MINDSET: One notorious American example:
Muslim Killer on Disability and Food Stamps hid Diamonds and 200 Credit Cards on Texas property; ran terror cell
Front Page Magazine | 6/20/2014 | Daniel Greenfield / FR Posted by Dqban22
This scenario is surprisingly common among Christian-hating Muslims...traveling around, riding around in luxury cars, w/ plenty of money to burn. The only reason this Texas case came to light is because the Texas Muslim committed two Christian-related murders in Texas, one of which he actually got away with.
The murder of Christian believer, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, was reported earlier. Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian Christian who came to this country only to be murdered by a Muslim because she encouraged his daughter to marry the man she loved.
The Texas Muslim claimed he was too disabled to work. But he wasn’t too disabled to kill.
BACKSTORY The Texan, a strict Muslim, was furious when his Jordanian-American daughter married a man without his permission. The Muslim, Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, blamed his daughter’s husband, relatives say. They say he also faulted one of her closest friends, 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a Christian convert who widely denounced Islam.
<><> First Christian-believer Bagherzadeh was killed, gunned down outside her parents’ Texas Galleria townhouse complex in January 2012.
<><> Eleven months later, Irsan’s son-in-law died after being shot multiple times in northwest Texas, in the Harris County apartment he shared with his wife.
The Texas Muslim thought he could get away with murdering because he had already gotten away with so many other things in Texas.
Federal authorities executed a search warrant at Irsan’s sprawling, 5-acre property 40 miles north of Houston, where they allegedly found cash, diamonds, pearls, weapons and phony passports hidden in attic rafters, in secret compartments throughout a cluster of trailers and outbuildings and even inside the buried drum of a clothes dryer at the Conroe, Texas property.
The Muslim Irsan, his wife Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh, and another daughter were subsequently arrested on a variety of federal fraud charges and are in federal custody.
A federal criminal complaint detailing the discoveries recounts a saga of nearly 20 years in which the 57-year-old naturalized citizen from Jordan, and his family, allegedly scammed taxpayer disability assistance funds claiming “fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms,” and “affective disorders” while secreting real estate, vehicles and cash in US and foreign bank accounts.
The criminal complaint also alleges the Muslim Irsan:
<><> was receiving taxpayer funds for a son not living in the US,
<><> maintained several addresses on the property to facilitate various schemes, and,
<><> once disabled a safety feature on a saw then purposefully cut himself to receive a $75,000 settlement.
The Muslim was certainly industrious and entrepreneurial, just not quite in the way amnesty advocates like to claim.
TERROR CELL? Also found on the Muslim property was a makeshift gun range, which witnesses said “five or six Muslim families” frequently visited to fire AK-47s; also found was information about Irsan’s attempts to get a silencer. Nothing to do with Islamic terror, of course.
The rest of the scam ......
While there have been no allegations of terrorist ties regarding the Muslim family’s alleged (a) foreign bank accounts, and, (b) suspicious wire transactions, Irsan’s strict adherence to radical Islam may have been a motive in the alleged murders.
Authorities are also re-examining a 1999 case in which Irsan was not indicted after claiming self-defense in the shooting of son-in-law Amjad Alidam, who was married to Nasemah Rachelle Irsan.
And that’s not all. Prosecutors also revealed, in connection to the social security fraud and credit card charges against Irsan, that they found more than 200 credit cards with various names and multiple variations of his own name throughout the Irwin Keel home.
Arresting officers say they also found more than 40 similar credit cards in his wallet the morning he was arrested. His daughter also alleges, among multiple other schemes detailed in court documents, that Ali Irsan purposely disabled the safety device on a Ryobi rotary saw and purposely cut his own foot. Prosecutors say he used that injury to receive a $75,000 settlement from the manufacturer.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/muslim-killer-on-disability-and-food-stamps-had-diamonds-and-200-credit- cards/print/
Lighten up! This needs to be posted near and far until all are forced to notice.
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I agree. This 14 year old Muslim fraud is as much a genius as Michael Brown was a gentle giant in Ferguson. This kid and his gleeful family are nothing burgers and add nothing positive to the American fabric.
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