Why is it so hard for people (unless they’re dishonest and disingenuous in the first place, like Hussein is) to realise and remember that Muslims have used devices that looked like ordinary everyday items, as weapons and bombs? (Improvised IEDs, anyone?) It’s not a stretch-the tennis shoe bomb? This is like all th anti-profilers—in certain circumstances, and certain places, certain people look like the criminals they are, and they even go out of their way to let you know that with gang insignia and colors, etc. So when they get stopped by police because they are in circumstances which reinforce their chosen criminal persona, that won’t be profiling, it will be common sense. So is thinking that a clock carried in a briefcase by a Muslim just could be a nefarious item.
I am not sure I agree.
I think this kid and his dad intended this pencil box clock to get exactly the response from teachers and police that it got.
That in my mind is a bomb hoax which I believe is against the law. Something like inducing panic.