Posted on 09/26/2015 2:26:52 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
And the school administrators fell for the scam and made the kid rich and famous.
We know that the school officials knew it was not a bomb. They should have just sent the kid home and not called the police. Had they done that, we would have never heard of the Clock Kid.
Except for the fact that the Boston Marathon bombings happened, and young Muslims, even those born in America, are being radicalized by ISIS every day. I think they just didn’t know what to make of the whole thing and didn’t want to take any chances.
If this was a white kid in cammies. They’d be thanking Colonbine and he’d still be in jail
This is a false flag for the real thing, they want to see us run the other way on this and the despicable ones will run because they are cowards. Can we withstand an adolescent jihadists who brings a bomb to scholl and kills American children? They strap bombs on thier children all the time, do you think they wont?
Well, yes it should have got their attention. But at no point did anyone at the school think it was a bomb. If they had, the school would have been evacuated.
By calling the police, all they managed to do was make the kid famous, rich and cultivate sympathethy for Muslims.
Correct. The kid is clearly no genius and needs to be exported.
I don’t think they knew what to make of the situation.
Again, their concerns were what Ahmed might do with it, like leave it somewhere, in which case it wouldn’t matter if it was real or not. As someone said, airport security would have something to say about it.
And it’s not like Ahmed didn’t really think that it looked like a clock to him, as he told his suspicious teacher and has maintained. He said he took steps to make it not look a like a threat and “not that much suspicious.” Doesn’t sound like he was telling the truth. And his lack of forthrightness, which one expects from teens when confronted on something, concerned them. While there’s no evidence of it yet, it does sound like possibly a hoax his family, and particularly his father, was behind. Despite their claims that Mohamed was “severely traumatized,” Ahmed is seen everywhere with broad smiles, like he can hardly contain himself. Interestingly he smiles at certain points during interviews, and he lapses into disjointed English at parts of his story where his own actions might be in doubt, including where he talks of making the project look “not that much suspicious,” and some other parts that I saw in another interview with him.
I also think it was known that his father is an in-your-face Islamist, who among other things, went to Florida to debate the Koran-burning pastor.
Then there was the matter of the daughter accused of making a bomb threat. Was there something to that? Maybe the daughter indeed did because her father has encouraged his children to boldly advocate for Islam.
Although it’s not certain either way yet, it sounds like these were a Muslim family not content with quietly living in America without trying to openly impose Islam on it.
I was at Walgreen’s today....there was a kid carrying around a pencil box exactly like Ahmed’s. I thought maybe he and his mother were buying it. I looked around the store and tried to see if they were selling it....I did not see it for sale. I’m guessing they were trying to start something. Why bring a pencil box into a store like that?
I’ll admit I did not complain to anyone in the store, although I thought about it.
There is NO evidence that this was based on “faith” or “ethnicity”. In the past 15 years, we have seen a dozen or more stories in which school officials acted in far more egregious ways regarding students’ possession of real weapons or toy guns or even pictures of guns, and virtually all of those students were WHITE.
The “digital clock” looked more like a suitcase bomb than anything else, so it was appropriate to question it. Meanwhile, over the years, students have been suspended for obviously harmless things like toy guns, drawings of guns, finger guns, fish filet knives in their car trunks, and many others.
Somebody should try to board a commercial airplane carrying a contraption like Mohammed had. I wonder how far they’d get?
You are right on all your points, but by having him arrested they made him famous. They should have sent him home and called the FBI. They would have investigated and kept it very quiet. That would mean no media attention, no gifts no money and a better investigation.
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