Posted on 09/19/2015 9:08:59 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
On Wednesday, the story of Ahmed Mohamed erupted online. The 14-year-old from Irving, Texas, was suspended from MacArthur High School and arrested after he brought a homemade clock to school that a teacher mistook for a bomb.
After the story went viral and gained widespread support, Mohamed's family created a LaunchGood initiative on Wednesday seeking to add some cold hard cash to the teenager's newfound fame. The #IStandWithAhmed campaign hopes to raise money to support Mohamed and others like him with a scholarship to pursue their education in a STEM field.
Within hours of its creation, the campaign raised more than $7,500 and appears well-positioned to reach a stated $100,000 goal by the end of the fundraising period in 27 days.
According to the campaign, 50% of the funds will be allocated to Mohamed, while the other 50% will be given to other promising youths toward a one-year scholarship to MakerSpace. . .
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Wouldn’t give the punk beans. Looks like a future bomb maker to me. Setting him up as a hero is a big mistake. His old man is a lawyer and don’t be surprised this was all planned for a lawsuit.
If you send a check for -$ will their bank send you the money?
So , he gets an invite to Harvard’s Theoretical Physics Dept. after ‘building’ that sloppily constructed clock??
C’mon .
Guess I should have finished that simple Heathkit when I was a teenybopper.
Coulda gotten a Presidential Citation.
Donate a rifled slug
Help Jihadi Jr. in his career to take perfectly good working clocks apart and hide them inside cases, for...whatever.
“The 9/11 memorial fund”? (to honor the terrorists, not the victims of course).
Regardless of the kids intentions, the incident and coverage is telling people to not act like we’re suspicious when we see something that looks like a bomb, especially if being carried by a Muslim. And also that Muslims (at least kids) don’t have to cooperate with authorities when asked their intentions. That can only help future terrorists.
Cool! Now he and his father can buy lots of C4 and stuff for real bombs.
Seems like something fishy is going on.
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Ya’ think?
Would not surprise me.
Obama will have the CIA and FBI to supply these things to him free of charge.
It looks like Microsoft donated a bunch of their products to this little trouble maker. I wonder if they will regret it when this kid joins the junior jihadi farm team.
I going to be sick.
But, Ahmed DID make, or possess a fully-functioning DETONATOR. The alarm triggered in his backpack. That point must also be emphasized.
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