Posted on 09/18/2015 5:33:47 PM PDT by ziravan
In Irving, Texas on Monday, High School student and 14 yr old Sudanese immigrant Ahmed Mohamed proudly brought his homemade “clock” to school. In a rabid bit of Islamophobia, his teacher feared the worst and in a gross overreaction, called the police. The police equally overreacted and Ahmed found himself under arrest. In order to highlight and educate against our biases, the President has invited Mr. Mohamed to the White House as a show of solidarity.
In the wake of this tragic misunderstanding, how can we, as Americans, learn to better deal with our inner racist programming and prejudices?
The above certainly is the intended narrative. Or, to put it another way, what a pant load of bunk!
Let’s consider the following:
1. Ahmed Mohamed’s father, Mohamed Mohamed (Ididn’t make that up) is an “anti-Islamaphobic” activist, whatever that might be. It sounds to me like young Ahmed grew up being incessantly exposed to the grievance industry.
2. Mr. Mohamed, Sr. is already taking to the airwaves denouncing the prejudices of the nation that took him in from Sudan. No good deed goes unpunished.
3. The White House missed no opportunity to beat the American public over the head with its race-baiting brand of social justice.
4. The “clock” was purposely made with exposed wires and contained within a pencil case that appeared to be a briefcase.
5. According to Ahmed, he’s been nicknamed since middle school as, variously, “bombmaker” and “terrorist”. Did he not understand that a clock attached to wires buried in a case would be misconstrued? Of course he did!
6. Most convincingly, according to police, part of the reason that took young Ahmed into custody was that he was being purposely evasive about the rationale for bringing this device to school, and about its intended purpose. Evasiveness is normally (not always) a sign of culpability. It certainly indicates that what transpired was anything but an innocent misunderstanding.
By all appearances, this whole event was a staged bit of agitprop. The Left specializes in using test cases to make its political arguments.
If this is a piece de political resistance, and it appears to be, then it is also an act of terror in and of itself. In order to capitalize on the display of this “clock”, those being shown device had to believe that it could be a bomb, and act appropriately. In doing so, young Ahmed was purposely attempting to create a panic. He didn’t bring a “clock” to school; he brought a fake bomb to school.
This act of trying to incite a panic is an act of terror. Young Ahmed, at last, has found validation from his classmates: he is indeed a terrorist. (I wonder if he and the President will fist bump in the Oval Office?)
The greatest concern from this event is what happens next time a budding Islamic terrorist student attempts to test the resolve of some school staff, somewhere. Will that staff now pause before taking appropriate action out of respect to political correctness? We wouldn’t want to offend the next young terrorist at one of our public schools, now would we?
By encouraging delaying the next time to take appropriate action, as a result of this time, are your children now potentially more at risk if the next fake bomb isn’t fake?
More to the point, the whole narrative of Homeland Security is now turned on its head: See Something, Say Something, You’re a racist!
Enjoy your government paid trip to the White House, young terrorist Ahmed! You’ve earned it.
A transparent, obnoxious little ploy intended to expose the “evil of islamophobia” — providing Obozo another platform to spew his anti-American patter.
Y’all laugh at Oregon, but....
In a reality-based world, states like Oregon where there's not much in the way of "diversity" ought to be resolutely Conservative. That also applies to Vermont, a leftist "paradise" in spite of being overwhelmingly white. I believe there's a large percentage of self-hating whites in such places, therefore "white guilt" contributes to the support of communism and its "religious" wing, islam.
In contrast, states like Texas and Mississippi embrace Conservatism perhaps because we see, on a daily basis, the disastrous effects of multiculturalism.
The Willamette Valley types see it, too. And Oregon’s liberals gravitate there. That big expanse of tranquility in Oregon probably only houses a scant tens of thousands.
Sounds like that terrorist kid on 24. “You can’t even pronounce my name. It’s not Ah-med. It’s Ach-med”
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