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Ahmed Mohamed and Thomas Jefferson: A tale of two clocks
The Hill ^ | 10/16/2015 | Denise A. Spellberg

Posted on 10/16/2015 7:37:34 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016

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1 posted on 10/16/2015 7:37:34 PM PDT by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

The Muslim kid didn’t invent anything. He took the innards out of a digital clock and stuck them in a case.


2 posted on 10/16/2015 7:40:18 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

And that’s just the beginning of the idiocies of this article.


3 posted on 10/16/2015 7:40:53 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Nonsense, pure and unadulterated crap. Every premise is wrong. How can this buffoon post on the Hill?


4 posted on 10/16/2015 7:43:59 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Thomas Jefferson must be turning in his grave!


5 posted on 10/16/2015 7:44:03 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix
The nifty clock invented by the young member of the robotics club prompted false charges he had created a “hoax bomb,” an ordeal that made the student feel like a “criminal” and a “terrorist.”

He didn't "invent" anything. He took apart a Micronta clock and put it in a pencil case. The kid is an idiot. He has produced nothing which required any creativity, and he misled people into thinking he had done something that takes more than 20 seconds.

Seriously, there is a video on Youtube where someone takes apart this same clock, and puts it in a pencil box. It took 20 seconds.

Here is a snippet of that video.


6 posted on 10/16/2015 7:51:52 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

It would be difficult to think of another story where the attention thrown on an individual was more unwarranted and just plain stupid than this Clock Boy lunacy.

And, of course, this indentity politics nonsense is just the sort of nothing story Obama would latch onto and pretend it has some deep meaning, and that it illustrates how racist and Islamophobic the US is, in his sick, twisted, Third World view of the USA.


7 posted on 10/16/2015 7:52:12 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88

Typical for a feckless fool on a hill, unworthy to hold that office.


8 posted on 10/16/2015 7:55:34 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Using the Polygraph to write five years before his death, Jefferson, our first “infidel” president, championed the rights of Muslim citizens, writing that he intended his Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom “to comprehend within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination,” wherein he wrote these immortal words: “our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions.”

And this is one of those times that Thomas Jefferson was just simply wrong.

This is just nonsensical Liberal thinking, and does not, and cannot work out in practice.

Islam does not accept the concept of Equality. Jefferson attempts to force another religion to operate in accordance with a Christian idea, but it was so ubiquitous in Jefferson's environment, that he conceives of the concept of equality as a universal principle.

It is not. Islam utterly rejects it.

Again, more of Jefferson's egalitarian nonsense. He obviously didn't believe his own press releases or he would have freed his own slaves.

9 posted on 10/16/2015 7:56:53 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Will88

Had the school not had him arrested, we would have never heard of him.


10 posted on 10/16/2015 7:58:02 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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11 posted on 10/16/2015 7:58:56 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

When I was his age, I was building a Heathkit amp,fm tuner and CB radio.
My geek friends were doing the same. We weren’t praised as inventors, but we did learn some basic electronics.


12 posted on 10/16/2015 8:03:58 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

What a steaming pile. Not worth a response.

The main takeaway here is that The Hill will publish anything and can be taken with a grain of salt by sensible people.


13 posted on 10/16/2015 8:17:06 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Fungi

She’s a muslim apologist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Spellberg

Denise A. Spellberg (born c. 1958) is an American scholar of Islamic history. She is an associate professor of history and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Spellberg holds a BA from Smith College (1980) and a PhD (1989) from Columbia University.

Spellberg is the author of Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha Bint Abi Bakr, a widely cited work on the portrayal of Aisha in Islamic tradition. In particular, Spellberg shows how later commentators reinterpreted Aisha’s role at the Battle of Camel (656,) where she rode her camel into battle against Ali but stayed inside the litter with the curtains closed, as an argument that women should never participate in public affairs.[

In 2008 Spellberg was involved in a controversy over Sherry Jones’ historical novel The Jewel of Medina. Random House, which intended to publish the novel later that year, had sent Spellberg galley proofs, hoping for a publishable comment. Spellberg sharply criticized the novel from a historical perspective, and also reportedly told Random House publishing the book might result in violence by radical Muslims. Subsequently, Random House indefinitely postponed publication, citing concerns about violence from extremists.[3]

Asra Nomani wrote about the events in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, in which she characterized Spellberg as “the instigator of the trouble”.[3] In the wake of Nomani’s article, a number of publications printed pieces criticizing Spellberg’s actions as tantamount to advocating censorship.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Spellberg responded in the Wall Street Journal, contesting Nomani’s characterization of her as the “instigator” of the book’s cancellation. She wrote that she was not advocating censorship, but rather offering her professional assessment of the book and a warning about the potential reaction from some Muslims

...In 2013, Spellberg published Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders. The book discusses a copy of the Qur’an owned by Thomas Jefferson as well as Jefferson’s views on Islam, arguing that his vision for religious freedom in the United States specifically included Muslims...



14 posted on 10/16/2015 8:23:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Thank you. No wonder nothing made sense. From one false premise to another in such rapid succession, you would think she would loose her balance. A fool never admits to anything.


15 posted on 10/16/2015 8:27:00 PM PDT by Fungi
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[and inventor]

What a joke. The author is an idiot. He didn’t “invent” anything.


16 posted on 10/16/2015 8:35:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: DiogenesLamp; JPG

Animated jpg? Really cool!


17 posted on 10/16/2015 8:38:06 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: a fool in paradise
Ah, University of Austin - you and Austin was beautiful when I visited there in 1999. How can there be this many idiots?


18 posted on 10/16/2015 8:40:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

[you and Austin]

s/b “And Austin”


19 posted on 10/16/2015 8:43:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

The author is part of the political theater that was this boys “clockmaking.”

It was all planned in advance — the clock, the arrest, the media campaign, the immediate invitation to the White House. The police and teachers of Irving TX were stupid dupes in the bit of theater.


20 posted on 10/16/2015 9:19:40 PM PDT by PGR88
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