Ahmed Mohammad's Qatari Vacation With The Muslim Brotherhood [Benefits Of Being A Clock Maker]

FrontPage Mag ^ | 09/30/2015 | Arnold Ahlert

[SeekAndFind]

Teenage clockmaker invited to Qatar by an organization linked to the terror group.

September 30, 2015

Arnold Ahlert

  

The story of Ahmed Mohamed, the Dallas schoolboy made famous by the reaction to his arrest for bringing a homemade clock that resembled a suitcase bomb to school, has taken another curious turn. According to the Dallas Morning News, Ahmed and his family have accepted an invitation extended by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development to visit Qatar. Their sister institution, the Qatar Foundation International (QFI) was founded by Sheikh bin Al Thani, who also created Al Jazeera. QFI has links to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).

 

The trip is another leg on what is best described as a celebrity-like tour. On Monday, Ahmed's newfound status took him to New York’s City Hall, where he received a proclamation from Public Advocate Letitia James. James referred to Ahmed as a role model and allowed him to sit in her council chamber chair. Ahmed was also given a tour of City Hall by Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and was presented with framed commendation by city Comptroller Scott Stringer. “All students should engage w/ science and technology – Ahmed Mohamed is a role model for all NYers,” Stringer tweeted after the meeting. 

 

Such enthusiasm for Ahmed’s scientific acumen is belied by some inconvenient realities. In a YouTube video entitled "Ahmed Mohamed Clock is a FRAUD,”

electrical expert Thomas Talbot makes the case that Ahmed’s timepiece is actually a commercial clock removed from its casing. “This child, uh, nothing against him personally, never built a clock," Talbot insists, further adding he believes the device was “intentionally" built to look suspicious. A blog known as Art Voice, identifies the device as one sold in a 1986 Radio Shack catalogue, and cites two investigators who conclude that Ahmed "disassembled a manufactured clock and installed it in a large pencil box without its casing,” possibly to "provoke suspicion or to resemble a bomb.” 

 

Adding further fuel to such speculation is the reality that Ahmed’s older sister, Eyman Mohamed, revealed she was suspended from middle school in the same district in 2009. “I got suspended from school for three days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do with,” she insisted. “I got suspended and I didn’t do anything about it and so when I heard about Ahmed, I was so mad because it happened to me and I didn’t get to stand up, so I’m making sure he’s standing up because it’s not right. So I’m not jealous, I’m kinda like—it’s like he’s standing for me.”

 

District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver explained the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prevented her from providing any details about Eyman’s suspension unless her parents signed that document. They have refused to do so, and thus the school is unable to release information.

 

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who insisted his son was "hurt and was tortured and arrested and mistreated in front of his friends inside of the school,” and who subsequently withdrew all of his children from their Irving Independent School District schools earlier this month, has led a politically active life. The former customs worker at Khartoum International Airport, who earned a philosophy degree from Cairo University in Khartoum before emigrating to the U.S., ran for president of Sudan twice. In 2012 he made headlines for participating as a “defense attorney" in Rev. Terry Jones’s mock trial of the Quran at his Gainesville church. Jones ultimately burned a copy of the book, precipitating riots in Afghanistan.

 

Such political activism may partially explain how effectively this family has managed Ahmed’s newfound celebrity status, to the point where a Dallas public relations firm wants to sign him. “The last few weeks have been truly life-changing for my son Ahmed and for our family,” his father explained -- in a prepared statement announcing the trip to Qatar. Mohamed also has plans to take his family to Mecca. And when he gets back, his son intends to take President Barack Obama up on his White House invitation.

 

All of this has been driven by an American left that continues to insist Ahmed was singled out, not because his clock looked like a suitcase bomb (a side by side comparison can be seen here), but because the nation in general, and Texas in particular, is a seething cauldron of Islamophobia. Again, such accusations ignore inconvenient realities, beginning with the assertion by Irving, TX police spokesman James McLellan that Ahmed was uncooperative. "We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only say it was a clock. He didn't offer any explanation as to what it was for, why he created this device, why he brought it to school,” McLellan stated.

 

Furthermore, this was not Ahmed’s first experience with trouble in school. At Sam Houston Middle School Ahmed "racked up weeks of suspensions,” according to the Texas newspaper, which further noted that while "his discipline record is confidential and his father didn’t want to discuss it, the file was thick by some accounts."

 

More to the point as the Daily Caller explains, Eagle Scouts, honor students and others, including kids as young as five, have had their lives upended, not by bigotry, but by “zero tolerance” policies. Policies that reached the height of stupidity when a second-grader was suspended from school for biting a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun. Most of these students were white non-Muslim males. "But Obama never worried about the fate of those students,” the Caller reminds us.

 

And if one is still inclined to excoriate the MacArthur High School officials for erring on the side of caution, perhaps they should take the Obama administration to task as well:  “If you see something, say something” is a trademarked slogan of the Department of Homeland Security, and DHS also urges Americans to report suspicious activity that includes the observation of “unusual items.” 

 

Suspicious activity is a term that might be aptly applied to the Muslim Brotherhood-linked QFI. In 2012 QFI launched the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics. The Center’s director is Professor Tariq Ramadan, who is the grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, Hassan al Banna. Ramadan was banned from coming to the United States until 2010 when the Obama administration granted him a visa to lecture at a school in New York. QFI has also instituted Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi Scholarships, named after the notorious Egyptian cleric who twice turned down offers to be the MB’s highest-ranking official. Al Qaradawi has been documented endorsing the "abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq,” and the desire to end his life as a martyr by shooting "Allah's enemies, the Jews.” 

 

"Qaradawi has personally attended scores of foundation events, including conferences at which he served as a keynote speaker,” World Net Daily reveals.

 

QFI recently bestowed a $75,000 grant on the Arabic Immersion Magnet School in the Houston Independent School District to fund “Arabic language activities and Arab cultural events for students, teacher professional development, educational resources, promotion of the Arabic language, community outreach, and curriculum development to promote the educational mission of the Arabic Immersion Magnet School.” Ahmed has been offered a QFI tour of “Education City,” in Doha, Qatar’s capital city. The Dallas Morning News describes it as a "5-square-mile cluster of universities and think tanks.”

 

Upon Ahmed’s return, the family will retrieve the clock still sitting in the Irving police station and take it to the White House. “His main goal is to take it to the president,” said Ahmed’s uncle, Aldean Mohamed. 

 

President Obama’s main goal will be to use the Texas teenager as his latest prop to indict the nation for crimes of racism and intolerance, much as he did with Cambridge Professor Henry Louis Gates, Florida’s Trayvon Martin and Ferguson’s Michael Brown. Once again the president will embrace the selective indignity that is his trademark. 

 

[left that other site]

Try as I might, I can’t seem to figure out how to tell time on that thingy.

[C210N]

This guy is a modern John Harrison!

Note the close similarities...

[The_Media_never_lie]

You will know what time it was set for when you hear the big boom!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Just look at the warm, fuzzy coverage by the mainstream media on young Ahmed. Look at the press conference. This story was never, ever what it was purported by the media to be.
Young Ahmed baited the police and answered with passive aggressive responses to their questions. That is certainly his choice and it is protected under the constitution. It is not against the law to bait the police and school administration, as far as I know.

However, what he did was take an 80s Radio Shack clock apart and repackage it to look like a bomb. There is no evidence of brilliance here, though the kid may indeed be smart.

Look at the dishonest spin the story was portrayed in the mainstream media. Watch the press conference in which the very scary CAIR lawyer and others portrayed this event as something other than what it was. What was that foreign phrase they all spoke before addressing the camera? This does not play well in America.

I am told I should be tolerant, but these people are 5th columnists and they should go to some other country to set up Sharia. The media is again lying to the American people by playing up the poor, innocent brilliant scientist kid. The kid lied when he claimed it was his invention.

[left that other site]

By then it will be a little late.

[butlerweave]

It’s a count down clock

[left that other site]

Yep.

[fishtank]

Get Texas A&M out of Qatar.

[CGASMIA68]

AKA Timer

This little POS kid and his family need to be watched 24/7

[SeekAndFind]

Here is a list of American University branches in the Middle East:

http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/special-reports/article/the-middle-east-university-list_672

[mc5cents]

I wish people would stop calling this kid a “clockmaker”. He didn’t make anything. He just took a manufactured clock out of its covering and put it in a box to look like a bomb. So why not just call him the faux bombmaker?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

SeekAndFind :" Here is a list of American University branches in the Middle East;.."

Thanks
Just in big oil rich Qatar , alone :
Qatar University - homegrown
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar -since 1991
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Northwestern University in Qatar
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar

[Twinkie]

Little Mohammed’s FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME is about up.

[Lionheartusa1]

,,,, as the president , the united nations and all the fawning gift giver supporters continue to avoid the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM I have become more and more convinced that we are in BIG SERIOUS TROUBLE in this country . This little bastard and his family should be sent packing .
God help us because our public officials are useless against a preemptive trial run of the bombing of a public school by a muslim juvenile delinquent in sheeps clothing .

[bgill]

Hurt and tortured! There must be a youtube on his stoning and beheading. No, instead the left just turned a little punk into the next OBL.

We really should support daddy’s presidential run so this terrorist family will depart our shores.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I predict we will hear no more from young Ahmed unless he radicalizes and does something heinous in a few years.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I predict we will hear no more from young Ahmed unless he radicalizes and does something heinous in a few years.

[zzwhale]

OBAMA AND THIS KID

MUSLIM MAN BOY LOVE .......

[huldah1776]

I liked this one the best.