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Ahmed’s Clock in the Age of Grievance-Mongering: Muslim Nerd Kids In an Atmosphere of Paranoia
National Review ^ | 09/18/2015 | Kevin Williamson

Posted on 09/18/2015 10:23:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: grania

21 posted on 09/18/2015 10:40:13 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The kid did it on purpose and probably with direction from his dad.


22 posted on 09/18/2015 10:41:47 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: napscoordinator

the cops and the school wanted to know the reason the kid was making an electronic suitcase device that had a circuit board attached to a timing device.. It’s not far fetched to think he may have made it there at school or had brought it to school to add more parts and and used as a bomb somewhere else later.. there have been kids a heck of a lot younger than that kid involved with electronic timing devices that did go boom..... better safe than sorry


23 posted on 09/18/2015 10:42:06 AM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: Gamecock

If somebody is going to spend that much time making a clock for fun then it better have a speaker that randomly says “FASTER!”

If a muslim wants a trip to the White House, then try dressing up as a terrorist and sneak into a dark theater.

Another way to get discriminated against is show up at the airport with lots of box cutters.


24 posted on 09/18/2015 10:42:11 AM PDT by Rad_J
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To: Gamecock
Gamecock @2: "Looks like a bomb clock to me!"

That's because it is a clock... similar to the Acurite Intelli-time Model 13003 large LED-display clock. The small green circuit board is similar to PCB layout (Figure 2) in ElecCircuit's Cheap Digital time clock.

The clock was crudely disassembled and the parts put into a small Vaultz pencil case, shaped like a briefcase. The power transformer is laying loose on its side with AC contacts exposed (hazard!). The battery clip on the left is for a 9V battery backup of the time when the power cord is unplugged. And with the display inside the case, the clock would be useless unless the case were opened exposing hazardous AC voltage connections to the transformer.

Ahmen (or Ahmed) then took the device to school and pulsed the system in a quick and dirty effort to use a suspicious and electronic-looking thing with wires showing to provoke official school reaction, which then would be reported and denounced by pro-islamist groups, desensitizing and weakening school profiling against islamoterrorism. According to fifth-column media reports, the kid plugged it in during English class, a bizarre move that would alert any responsible teacher.

This kid and his father should be severely interrogated to extract some real answers.

25 posted on 09/18/2015 10:42:55 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry, but that first name is anathma to me.

No other way to put it. The man was evil.

Just plain evil.


26 posted on 09/18/2015 10:43:06 AM PDT by Da Coyote (Di)
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To: Menehune56

Because they are. The fact is if they REALLY thought it was a bomb they didn’t do any of the things you should do (evacuate, don’t touch it, bring the bomb squad, etc etc). So they clearly didn’t think it was a bomb, and yet they decided to kerfuffle like they thought it was a bomb. Why call the cops on something you apparently don’t actually think is a bomb? Why arrest the kid for something you apparently don’t actually think is a bomb? it’s just a whole lot of silly overreaction to no purpose.


27 posted on 09/18/2015 10:43:47 AM PDT by discostu (dream big and dance a lot)
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To: SeekAndFind

The kid made a fake bomb just to embarrass the school etc.

I think the school and the cops figured out immediately that it was not a bomb but was meant to frighten them and get a lot of attention when it was determined not to be one.

That is a crime and that is why they detained him.


28 posted on 09/18/2015 10:45:28 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

RE: The kid made a fake bomb just to embarrass the school etc.

Have they analyzed the contraption he made yet?


29 posted on 09/18/2015 10:47:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
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To: smokingfrog
...some kind of genius because he knows how to solder...

And judging from the deplorable workmanship, even that's debatable.
30 posted on 09/18/2015 10:47:38 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind

Muslim Dry Run With Fake Briefcase Bomb Get’s Victim Status

http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/muslim-dry-run-with-fake-briefcase-bomb-gets-victim-status/


31 posted on 09/18/2015 10:47:56 AM PDT by Ultima
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To: Ultima

Look, whites can’ dance usually and Middle Easterners into Islam tend to be terrorist often enough. So why overlook the obvious.

Kids have from all places been getting into trouble for flag T-shirts, other electronic stuff and how many get invited to the White House?


32 posted on 09/18/2015 10:50:06 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Paladin2

RE: Apparently no Screen, but some kind of ticking noise maker.

So, how can one tell time then? (that is, if he calls it a clock).


33 posted on 09/18/2015 10:51:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
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To: SeekAndFind
Look at that face and tell me what you see: Muslim-American?

You're either a muslim or an American. You cannot be both.

34 posted on 09/18/2015 10:54:08 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ahmed Mohamed was mistreated by imbeciles, and he’ll be famous for it, for 15 Warholian minutes, and then again for a 30-second spot when he graduates in a few years and goes off to MIT or wherever.

And the last we'll hear about him is when one of his "clocks" goes off and kills more Americans.

35 posted on 09/18/2015 10:55:30 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: napscoordinator; MinuteGal; Jane Long; hoosiermama; onyx; DoughtyOne

“If they were so concerned it was a bomb, they would have evacuated the school and sent in the Bomb Ordinance team. That proves the school was absolutely stupid.”

Because the Cops knew the kid was pulling their, and the school’s, chain. He made a fake bomb, and they knew it. Use your head. You don’t make fake bombs if you are a Muslim kid going to school a few days after 9/11, and showing it to a 2nd teacher when you don’t get the reaction you were expecting from the 1st one, so that it would eventually gain the desired media attention. It’s not the school that is stupid. Look in a mirror.


36 posted on 09/18/2015 10:55:45 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS)
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To: AlaskaErik

RE: You’re either a muslim or an American. You cannot be both.

How would this sentence sound like : You’re either a [fill in the blanks — Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, etc.] or an American. You cannot be both.


37 posted on 09/18/2015 10:56:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
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To: SeekAndFind
There are "clocks" in computers and all sorts of electronics that are used to measure time for internal purposes.

Someone here observed that the PC board looked like it was taken from a "regular" clock.

38 posted on 09/18/2015 10:57:06 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Local radio here in the Upstate, SC was reporting this morning that local news in the TX area where this occurred is giving more details to this incident. Supposedly, the kid had it plugged in to an outlet in his English class, although he was supposed to have brought it to school to show his science teacher. During English class, the “alarm” went off, thus causing quite the disruption. From there, supposedly, the boy was “passive, aggressive” when questioned by the administration; he was vague. It’s because of his non-specific answers to the questioning that law enforcement was contacted.

That’s what was discussed this morning; I’ve not followed up myself to any local TX reporting on this.


39 posted on 09/18/2015 10:57:54 AM PDT by nfldgirl
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To: SeekAndFind

Islamic doctrine is seditious to the US Constitution. The other creeds, not so much.


40 posted on 09/18/2015 10:58:16 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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