"When a seemingly possessed projector kept shutting off midlecture, young boys’ snickers surrounded Ahmed’s desk, where he sat with a hand-built remote control in his lap.
Talkative to a point of disruption to class, Ahmed...
"...tried to get out of detention by reciting the First Amendment in the principal’s office." ..."While his discipline record is confidential and his father didn’t want to discuss it, the file was thick by some accounts.*****
Ahmed said he was suspended for several weeks in sixth grade. A family friend, Anthony Bond, said the boy and a cousin were blowing soap bubbles in the bathroom, and the school overreacted.
"Ahmed blamed an administrator at the school who, Bond wrote, the boy felt “has been terrorizing him since the 6th grade” — hindering him from praying in school and unfairly punishing him." ... "Bond’s letter called the boy’s treatment “Muslim bashing”
"Bertha Whatley, who was Irving ISD’s attorney last year, said “high-level” officials at the district reviewed Bond’s letter. Bond said the principal overturned the suspension after meeting with Ahmed".
"...“I told you one day I’m going to be — and you told me yourself — I’m going to be really big on the Internet one day,” Ahmed said."
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Oh I have no doubt that punk has a record, and I have NO doubt that it was his parents who made that wannabe bomb. No way did Ahmed make it, his parents did, so they could sue the school for millions it was always about money
I read that pathetic excuse for a Dallas Morning News article earlier today. If the author could have painted the kid as any cuter or more misunderstood, I don’t know how. Hopefully readers are smart enough to see the truth.
I read that story myself and hope there’s a lot of follow-up attention given to it. The mainstream media jumped to their desired conclusion immediately, though, so they will keep their summary judgment unless some drastic evidence of something like a family plot emerges and criminal charges are filed. There will be almost no shaking them from the “targeted for being Muslim” storyline, if they can help it. This is another of those “teachable moment” “lessons” they will refer to again and again.