Posted on 09/16/2015 1:05:44 AM PDT by re_nortex
I was just about to turn in, samtheman, but caught your message and felt that I owe you the courtesy of a reply, albeit a quick one. I too hate islam with a burning intensity. The reason I dig in my heels and defend the Irving ISD on this matter is that they demonstrated that muzzies are under suspicion. As as for the PD, the article claims:
They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”
Whether or not that account is factual is not germane to my point. The perception ought to be among all muzzies in this Republic that they're being constantly watched and not trusted. Yes, treated differently. Profiled. Dare I say discriminated against.
My hope is that incidents such as this make them wake up and realize they are simply not wanted here. In short, my dream is their day-to-day lives suffer what they perceive to be insults and humiliations. Ultimately, they'll get the message that they are not welcome in America because, frankly, they're not.
Apologies in advance because this time, for sure, I'm heading off to bed. I don't normally post and run but must due to the hour. I'll be back around in about eight hours and, if you wish, we can engage later. So again, good night and/or good morning!
Do you work graveyard shift?
“...let a red hot soldering iron just dangle from a shelf.”......
No where in the article did I read the soldering iron was plugged in and/or “hot”.
Not being one who supports Muslim believers and in defense of the boy, who seems to have some electronic and mechanical skills, demonstrating those skills has nothing to do with his being a Muslim. If his name had been Fred Johnson or Everett Wilson, would this be a story? Yes, and he would still have been expelled from school for bringing the devise to school.
Evidence?
i say, "Thank God it wasn't a Pop Tart that kinda-sorta looked like a gun....
muslims automatically and rightly draw suspicion to themselves. This kid is muslim. Too bad for him.
Thank you. That’s what I thought, too.
I once brought a home-built Van der Graaf generator to school for a science fair. I can only imagine the overreaction of school officials nowadays. They’d probably think it was a nuclear weapon.
I hope Texas has a real state security watch list, opposed to what the Kenyan Muslim punk commie bastard in the white hut has in the DHS.
“I seem to recall something called due process........”
So, do I, but my memory is dim, with the term being used in the distant past.
I remember trying to catch one that someone threw to me. Yes it had be charged....but it released it charge very quickly, if you know what I mean.
The bull we pulled in the 50s and 60s as kids we should all be in a cage. Built rockets, bombs, fireworks, made booze out of wild fruits. I had a .22 and a 12ga. shotgun at the age of 12. My buddy’s and I were always out hunting without an adult. No one got shot and no eyes were lost!
“I seem to recall something called due process........”
Yeah. That was when we had a Constitution. Now it is just whatever they say goes...as long as it doesn’t apply to them.
Now, why would anyone associate muslims with bomb making? /s
“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”
The kid should have listened.
I live in Irving, and the authorities overreacted IMO.
Good grief, he is just a kid who likes electronics.
Yes, that's most likely the type of kid this kid is.
The "maker movement" is huge. My own sons are into it; one is the same age as this kid. At the robotics competitions, you can expect to see many kids who look very much like Ahmed. That's probably why, even if I saw this kid's photo without knowing his story, the word "terrorist" wouldn't come to mind. The words "robotics club" would. lol (I suppose I'm guilty of sterotyping there.)
The maker movement (electronics, robotics, etc.) is hugely popular right now. The boy reportedly told everyone his creation was a clock. He never claimed it was a bomb. And everyone concedes it’s a clock.
However, his father is playing up the “anti-Islam” angle. This is political for the father.
The only diabolical scheme I could imagine is a parent knowing the clock might look like a bomb to the teachers and suggesting the boy take the clock to school, just to make a case of “racism” out of it. But, is there any evidence that that happened? And, if that didn’t happen, what’s the crime here?
Count Ahmed among all the students who’ve been arrested for the silliest things.
At ~1:25 in this interview the yute admits that he thought it might be looked on as ‘suspicious’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=87&v=3mW4w0Y1OXE
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