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?
Sikhs hate Muslims....same goes for Hindus...
As we get older we sometimes begin to doubt our ability to “make a difference” in the world. It is at these times that our hopes are boosted
by the remarkable actions of other “seniors” who have found the courage to take on challenges that would make many of us wither.
Ted Hornsby is just such a person. Read his short comments below... it will surely bring joyful tears to your eyes.
Quote >From Ted:
“I’m often asked, ‘What do you old folks do now that you’re retired?’
Well, I’m fortunate to have a chemical engineering background, and one
of the things I enjoy most in life is converting beer, wine and good whiskey into urine. When my bladder is full,
I go out in the back yard and pee on a photo of Obama. I do this at least once every day and I really enjoy it.”
Ted is an inspiration to all.
Hi Its Uversabound, Did I get this from one of my Freepers? I think so! Worth the re-post. LOL
Opening lines, EL CID.
“The Prophet has commanded us
to rule the world.
Where in all your land of Spain
is the glory of Allah?
When men speak of you,
they speak of poets...
music makers, doctors, scientists.
Where are your warriors?
You dare call yourselves
sons of the Prophet?
You have become women!
Burn your books.
Make warriors of your poets.
Let your doctors invent
new poisons for our arrows.
Let your scientists
invent new war machines.
And then, kill!
Burn.
Infidels live on your frontiers.
Encourage them to kill each other.
And when they are weak and torn...
I will sweep up from Africa...
and thus the empire of the one God,
the true God Allah...
- Allah is the one God.
- will spread.
First, across Spain.
Then, across Europe.
Then, the whole world!
Believe it!
How can I forward this to other people?
School districts will simply double-down on enforcement of all the other petty rules so that they can juke the stats by not appearing to be watching Muslims more than non-Muslims. Call it the FAA-solution.
Far as I'm concerned, this is another example of a "dry run" in that muslims are testing the establishment to see what they can get away with. Expect to see more of this as they up the ante.
"Sometimes there are lines, and your bladder is about to bust, but when you are old, the wait can be worth it.....
That is such a beautiful picture. Every breed represented! I see a doberman, boxer, pit bull. So cute and they are smart too!
PR set up. All the news is a puppet show meant to pull strings and manipulate. Just like always.
Good questions all.
I’m sickened over the ‘firestorm’ in this country about this.
If it were a bomb and exploded, Obama would say that it was workplace violence.
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