Posted on 09/18/2015 5:09:51 AM PDT by SJackson
Of all the people arrested over the past week, only Ahmed Mohamed of Irving, Texas was invited to the White House as a result. This is because Mohamed is fourteen years old, and a Muslim, and was arrested because of rampant Islamophobia in the U.S. or at least so goes the media narrative that Barack Obama has eagerly abetted by issuing his invitation.
The facts of the case are not in dispute; only the intention behind them is. Mohamed built a working clock over the last weekend, and decided to take it school to show it to an engineering teacher. The problem was that it didnt look like a conventional clock. Instead, it was a mess of wires and other gadgets mounted in a briefcase, and looking suspiciously like the briefcase bombs that have figured in countless movies and TV shows.
Questioned by teachers and then by police, according to WFAA: officers said Ahmed was being passive aggressive in his answers to their questions, and didnt have a reasonable answer as to what he was doing with the case. Investigators said the student told them that it was just a clock that he was messing around with. Irving police officer James McLellan explained: We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only say it was a clock. He didnt offer any explanation as to what it was for, why he created this device, why he brought it to school.
Why didnt young Ahmed simply give McLellan the explanation he offered later, that he was planning to show the clock to an engineering teacher? This remains unexplained, but in part because of his non-cooperation, Ahmed Mohamed was arrested, and soon released without charge. An international firestorm ensued, with Obama inviting Ahmed to the White House, and a great deal of media handwringing over Islamophobia. Haroon Moghul wrote in CNN that Ahmed just looked to some like someone who might want to make bombs. Hes that very menacing brownish color that racists and bigots associate with either everything south of Texas or some country they probably think is called Terroristan. As it happens, hes of African, specifically Sudanese, descent. Hes got a doubly Muslim name.
And its true: officials at Irvings MacArthur High School, where Ahmed Mohamed is a student, ridiculously overreacted. They did so, however, not because of Islamophobia, but because of the general hysteria over school shootings that has led principals and teachers nationwide to react stupidly to innocuous actions. All over the country, school officials are on constant high alert for weapons a high alert that has more than once spilled over into outright hysteria, with students being suspended for drawing guns, pointing fingers at people and saying Bang, etc. Then there was Josh Welch, the kid who got in trouble for chewing his pop-tart into the shape of a gun. Josh Welch never got invited to the White House.
Josh Welch and the other children who have fallen victim to this hysteria didnt run afoul of school administrators because they were Muslims none of them were. They found themselves in hot water because administrators are so very afraid that their school will be the site of the next shooting that they leap on and magnify the smallest matters. Would Ahmed Mohameds clock have been suspicious if he were a white Methodist, and would he have been arrested anyway? Without any doubt. But his arrest has become an opportunity for the purveyors of the Muslims-as-victims myth, among whom Haroon Moghul is a leading propagandist, to push hard on their spurious and insidious claim that Muslims are suffering from unwarranted scrutiny, including counter-terror programs, which should accordingly be relaxed or scrapped altogether.
That will be the result of the apotheosis of Ahmed Mohamed to Exalted Victim Status. Ahmed Mohamed will most likely be the Rosa Parks of the counter-counter-terror movement. Because of this young man and his clock, Muslim students will henceforth be exempted from scrutiny for bringing suspicious objects to school: to subject them to such scrutiny would be Islamophobic, clearly an act of racism against brown people.
Because of this incident, the clock is now ticking on Islamophobia that is, on reasonable scrutiny of Muslims behaving suspiciously. Such scrutiny is on its way out. And so it could happen some day: a young Muslim just as intelligent and enterprising as Ahmed Mohamed will spend a weekend building a bomb instead of a clock, and carry it with him to school on Monday morning. School officials, if they see it, will not dare utter a word of protest: they will have learned the lesson of Ahmed Mohamed, that young brown Muslim boys with suspicious objects are not to be questioned unless the questioner wants to be excoriated in the media and lose his job.
When that bomb goes off, will anyone recall the silly incident in the late summer of 2015 that paved the way for it, and how the President of the United States himself made it all possible? Or will they be too preoccupied with the bloody carnage to remember?
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I'm suspicious that I'd have trouble bringing the briefcase on the left on an airplane. Or anywhere else someone saw the innards.
Stupid is not a way to go through life, son.
I heard this morning on F&F that Google and MIT have offered the kid bennies b/c of this.
Two institutions I have now added to the "do not patronize" list.
If we keep arresting the children of Muslim activists who create news, then maybe we are making some progress. Clearly this was an intentional political act and the WH invite proves it.
Here’s the scoop on Terrorist Junior:
According to Irving police, Ahmed’s case contained a digital clock that the student had taken apart and rearranged. Police said the student had the briefcase in his English class, where he plugged it into an electrical outlet and it started to make noise.
Ahmed told WFAA that his English teacher confiscated his case. A few hours later, the student said the principal and school resource officer pulled him out of class and questioned the high school freshman.
Officers said Ahmed was being “passive aggressive” in his answers to their questions, and didn’t have a “reasonable answer” as to what he was doing with the case. Investigators said the student told them that it was just a clock that he was messing around with.
“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,” said James McLellan, Irving Police.
Reportedly is father is an Islamic activist.
Must have I-Don’t-CAIR on his speed dial.
Those two dumb ragheads that got themselves killed in Texas, the animal that shot the soldiers, the one who chopped a woman’s head almost clear off..dont worry about that stuff.
Oh, and the nearly weekly arrests of these creatures wanting to join ISIS. Forget it.
Hey oboma, you’re a piece of garbage. You and your whole dam group. Trash through and through. If I got to meet you I would spit at your feet.
The president has turned Muslimsinto a protected. Now they can continue their incpvasion unfettered.
“What’s that suitcase that that Muslim woman is carrying into the federal courthouse?
“Oh, its nothing. Its just her son’s Science Fair project. We can’t stop them to look in their bag’s or suit cases anymore. The DOJ said so. It’s considered a hate crime if we do”
BOOM
With a name lke "Haroon", I'll bet none of the other kids would play with him....so he did the standard Muslim thing...and killed them all.
Moral: don't let your kids associate with Muslims.
Haven’t seen this TV with a picture of the fake suitcase bomb and people have a fit when Obama gets a question about him being a Muslim.
“Before I was really scared that no one was really going to care about me cause I’m Muslim and now everyone wants to interview me because of what happened,” Mohamed said in an interview with WFAA-TV.
Total set up. Plus, the kid is likely heading to a madrassa anyway. This HS was just a short stop on the way. More puppet show.
Obama to greet the young Muslim bomb-maker in the WH.
Good post. That little turd is a provocateur, and probably coached by daddy.
This was another probe of our defenses.
Chris Christie was just interviewed on the Today show. He stated:
1. The officials at Irving school over-reacted to the “clock”.
2. He stated that Trump should have rebuked the questioner about his statements on Muslims and Obama.
Fat Boy is a real tiger, you can tell.
This media-generated “storm” begs some questions:
Is/Are Republicans now required to defend Obama?
Has Obama ever jumped to the defense of Republicans?
Why does the media remain silent when Obama criticizes Americans, American history, Western Civilization?
Has Obama ever concretely given a no-holds-barred Christian witness?
Is Trump required to give a Christian witness for Obama that Obama evidently refuses to do?
Why is Obama uninterested in the plight of Christians in the Middle East?
Speaking of dear ol' dad...
Did he think it was wise for his son to take something looking more like a suitcase bomb than a clock to school?
Terrorism is just so hilarious, isn't it
He certainly made a big deal out of it. Can’t return to the school because of the shame?
If it was truly a simple misunderstanding, it would’ve been forgotten the next day.
Looks like the WH is behaving stupidly.
Look for a lawsuit coming down the pike.
The kid will make a tidy sum thanks to all the pandering by the idiotic elites.
I’m sure pressure cookers were no big deal either until the carnage in Boston.
It is not Trump’s job to rebuke legitimate questions from the public. This pic crap makes us stupid. Kristie is slime.
But lil' Johnny White Bread had better not bite off his Pop Tart in the shape of a handgun in the school cafeteria. That's a clear and present danger.
Check your White Privelage, America!
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