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CNN: Muslim teen arrested for clock because of “trickle-down Islamophobia”

Sep 17, 2015 10:14 am By Robert Spencer

This controversy is generally being framed as a choice between saying that school officials didn’t overreact or that they acted out of “Islamophobia,” as professional victim Haroon Mogul hysterically insists here.

Actually, there is a third option. I believe that MacArthur High School officials ridiculously overreacted, but 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. Yesterday I wrote: “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 the kid who got in trouble for chewing his pop-tart into the shape of a gun, and others.

These children didn’t 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 Mohamed’s 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.

Moghul has thin gruel to work with in a school environment where a pop-tart gun can get you suspended and Ahmed Mohamed had what looked like the briefcase bomb that has figured in countless movies and TV shows, but he makes the most of it, adding to his long and sorry record of Islamic supremacist smear-mongering, victimhood posturing, and sly attacks on the freedom of speech. Here for CNN he pens one of his typical exercises in self-pity, giving us a good example of how the entire “Islamophobia” smear is based on projection, unsubstantiated claims, and sweeping false charges.

More below.

Haroon S. Moghul

“Stand with Ahmed against Islamophobia,” by Haroon Moghul, CNN, September 16, 2015:

…Ahmed had actually told his teacher that he’d made the clock at home and brought it in to show what he was capable of. Well, one teacher showed us what this country is capable of, too. The police were called, arrested Ahmed on suspicion of building a bomb and the snap of a shocked young teenager in a NASA T-shirt has gone global.

Irving, Texas, is not far from Dallas, the same part of the country that was making a bid for the 2024 Olympics. Before you welcome the world, might I suggest you welcome your own citizens?

On Tuesday, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz wrote an op-ed for The Daily Beast asking us to pay attention to Islam’s “jihadism problem.” (A few decades off, but hey, better late than never, guys.) Today, however, America woke up to its Islamophobia problem. It’s a reality American Muslims have endured for years.

Poor victims! Notice how Moghul doesn’t even consider the possibility that this could have been a case of overzealous school officials, of which there have been so many other cases. Yet it is extraordinarily unlikely that Moghul would ever have written anything about this case if the young man getting in trouble with school officials had been named, say, Josh Welch.

Because let’s be real. The clock didn’t look like a bomb.

Really? Let’s see:

Clock_bomb

But Moghul charges on:

Ahmed just looked to some like someone who might want to make bombs. He’s 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, he’s of African, specifically Sudanese, descent. He’s got a doubly Muslim name.

Are you surprised he was arrested?

Does Moghul have the slightest bit of evidence on which to base these overheated assertions that the school and the police were motivated by bigotry? None whatsoever. He doesn’t tell his readers what school officials and police are saying: “School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver declined to confirm the suspension, citing privacy laws. Weaver insisted school officials were concerned with student safety and not the boy’s faith. The police chief said the reaction to the clock ‘would have been the same regardless’ of his religion. ‘We live in an age where you can’t take things like that to school,’ Boyd said.”

It’s been 14 years since September 11, and some Americans still cannot believe Muslims are human beings, or American Muslims are Americans or that no people shouldn’t be judged by the actions of people they are completely unrelated to.

And why? Let’s not beat around the bush. We have a whole class of professional bigots — I’ve called them “Islamsplainers” — whose very purpose in the world is to tell us what Islam really is. Except their explanations are based on no evidence, little argument and zero interaction with actual Muslims. They make broad, sweeping, ridiculous generalizations, which would be wholly and completely unacceptable if directed at any other people. Yet America takes them seriously.

The irony here is that Moghul’s whole case — both that for Ahmed Moghul and against the “Islamophobes” he names below — is based on “no evidence, little argument and zero interaction” with the people he is defaming. He is the one making “broad, sweeping, ridiculous generalizations, which would be wholly and completely unacceptable if directed at any other people.” Yet CNN takes him seriously.

Going back several years, I have on more than one occasion responded to Moghul’s arguments and charges, and written substantive responses to his articles. I’ve responded to his claims about “Islamophobia” and “Islamophobes”; disputed his assertion that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam; and answered his attacks on Pamela Geller and me. Look at each piece: in each, I respond to Moghul’s arguments with reasoned arguments of my own, based on demonstrable evidence. Moghul did not respond to any of these pieces except with some contempt and ridicule on Twitter. Meanwhile, I have on more than one occasion invited him to debate. He refused. So which of us is uninterested in evidence and interaction?

It’s trickle-down Islamophobia, the opportunistic and grimy peddling of misinformation, making money and accumulating airtime by alarming Americans with exaggerated fears and wholly decontextualized theses.

Ah yes, “decontextualized,” yes, you see, you really can’t understand that “slay the polytheists wherever you find them” bit without some heavy heapings of context, which render it “give the polytheists a hug.”

Glenn Beck. Bill Maher. Robert Spencer. Pamela Geller. Sam Harris. Maajid Nawaz. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Their views are vile, hateful, ignorant and, frankly, scary. Yet instead of being called out, they continue to receive mainstream endorsement. In fact, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a fellow at Harvard, while Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz’s terrible new book was also published by Harvard Press. Is this what passes for intelligent conversation in supposedly sophisticated circles?

Where is Moghul’s evidence that the views of the people he lists are “vile, hateful, ignorant and, frankly, scary”? Why, he provides none. And he knows that CNN won’t call him out for that, as they’re committed to his point of view as a matter of policy, so he doesn’t need to do something as gauche as actually argue his case. Is this what passes for intelligent conversation in supposedly sophisticated circles?

Our professional Islamophobes say the same things, over and over again. They publish the same arguments, over and over again. Glenn Beck’s new book, cleverly titled “It IS About Islam,” is pretty much a rehash of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s latest book, “Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.” (Probably none of them could invent a clock. Probably they’re just jealous.)

I have no idea whether or not Beck’s book is really “pretty much a rehash” of Hirsi Ali’s, but I doubt it, as Beck is not a Somali ex-Muslim who suffered female genital mutilation. But in any case, note that Moghul doesn’t actually respond to or refute any of the arguments made in either book. Instead, he just flings an ad hominem that could just as easily be turned against him: why doesn’t he actually refute Beck or Hirsi Ali, instead of just smear them? Probably because their books sell so much better than his. Probably he’s just jealous.

And people who don’t know any better eat it up. They think it’s the truth. They believe Muslim extremism is somehow different from other kinds of extremism. That radicalism is pervasive in Muslim communities. That American Muslims are terrorists. That our cemeteries are secret jihadist training grounds. (Really, we couldn’t think of a better cover story for jihad camp than “Muslim burial ground?”) That all Muslims are either jihadist apologists or jihadist denialists. That the dangerous nature of Muslims requires persistent surveillance.

Notice that rather than this being any actual quotes, this is just a smorgasbord of things that apparently Moghul wants you to believe Beck, Maher, Geller, Harris, Nawaz, Hirsi Ali and I say. I haven’t said them and I doubt that any of the others have, either, and Moghul is saved from having to account for or prove these ridiculous claims (who has ever said that cemeteries were secret jihad training grounds?) by not actually attributing them to anyone in particular. It’s lazy and sinister at the same time.

…Fast forward to today, and instead of being able to focus on what I want, studying what I want, contributing what I feel most able to, I have to talk about my identity 24/7, because who else is going to respond to the racists, the bigots, the misinformants?

Poor victim! But here again: Moghul doesn’t respond. He has never engaged me or any other of the people he defames substantively. He has refused my invitations to have a substantive discussion and debate. What he presents here is the appearance of a response, empty of any actual substance. And no doubt he will do it again, and again, and again, in the future, and his easy marks at CNN will publish it every time. Con men and propagandists like him dominate the mainstream, with no accountability whatsoever.

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  1. Eddiethed says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 10:32 am

    That looks like a bomb,better safe than sorry,we should be suspicious of any Moslem they will do anything to please there blood thirsty pedophile prophet,what if that was a bomb an it blew up an killed everyone in that wing of the school
    then what?? So when ever there is a Moslem involved take extra care they are very dangerous people who hate us kiffars,they don’t come to our country to assimilate they come here to take over,there are a lot of Buddhist coming to America when is the last time a Buddhist shot a U.S Sailor or drove a plane into a building its always the Moslem they don’t belong in America or Europe if you want to immigrant go to Saudi Arabia or UAE or Oman but don’t come to the west!!!

  2. Don McKellar says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 10:42 am

    What a madhouse, backwards world we live in when a deceptive, lying Islamic supremacist conman like Haroon “the maroon” Moghul gets to write pieces for a major “news” organization like CNN. Why not give space to some neo-Nazis or a spokesman from North Korea to give their opinions on current events? The opinions will be just as wrong and ill-conceived, but there won’t be half the lies in it that this piece of human garbage puts in his stuff.

    As noted in the dissection of the lies and half-truths by Robert, this coward is absolutely shaking in loafers at the thought of debating Robert Spencer.

    • Huck Folder says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 12:12 am

      Over ten minutes of ugly awad on leftard water-carrying for islam PBS (puerile bull shit). Calling the wannabe IED designer – ahmed mohammed a GENIUS! The kid assembles a clock from a kit, then does a dry run of taking it to school, and he’s really lippy on TV, with his smarmy mum behind him, and awad patting himself on the back for his taqiyya PR job.

      Oh yeah, the parents went straight to cair – SHAKE-DOWN!

      • mach37 says

        Sep 18, 2015 at 3:31 pm

        Excellent, concise analysis of Ahmed’s “invention,” and my thoughts exactly on the “dry run” of taking it to school.

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:10 am

    Hello Haroon ! ! ! Don’t deny you read Jihad Watch on a daily basis, OK ? Robert again spends far more time that you are worth, shredding your self pity (as he generously describes it).

    Here is a little secret that you hope will not be told, but because I’ve got a few extra minutes, I will share with everyone reading this comment. [ Warning — graphic R-rated language ahead: ]

    YOUR STEALTH JIHAD IS THE PATH OF A PUSSY-OWNER, NOT A MAN. JUST LIKE NIHAD AWAD, IBE HOOPER, AND THE OTHER CAIR SISSY BOYS. OF COURSE, A MICRO-PHALLUS AND SHRUNKEN BALLS DO ALLOW MORE TROUSER SPACE FOR $$$ TO SPEND ON A FABULOUS WARDROBE.

    That is why you, and they, never engage in debate with Robert. Cowardice pure and simple. At least Reza Aslan (“I never go anywhere without a mirror”) lets his inner woman shine through whenever media slutting. Check out the gif Robert keeps in storage of Mr. Poofy-poof doing a great version of classic disco moves . . . Maybe he’d even agree to teach you a few smooth maneuvers.

    • Sally Archer says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 3:26 pm

      Wow. If you (jihad3tracker) & other regular commenters who spew similar misogyny could restrain yourself from the blatant woman-bashing, then maybe more of the world’s women who need to know what this blog teaches about stealth jihad would not find the blog inherently unpalatable because of your hateful commenting. Wow. You are such a “man.” Wow.

      • Shmooviyet says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 8:45 pm

        @Sally Archer–
        WOW– I read jihad3tracker’s comment earlier today and had no idea I as a woman was being bashed! I’ve re-read it twice now and still can’t spot the hate directed at me…
        Come on, there are men and women posting here regularly; it’s really not a scary place for females. You can learn a great deal from many of the regulars.
        The world must be a terribly frightening place for you; sorry for that. Are you sure you’re not Sally Kohn?

        • Western Canadian says

          Sep 18, 2015 at 1:31 am

          And reading and re-reading his post, there is nothing that would justify her post. Complete and utter drivel on her part.

      • Angemon says

        Sep 18, 2015 at 8:02 am

        Hi Sally. I’m sorry you feel that way – I’m sorry you think that the importance of having women knowing what islam has in store for them and how stealth jihad works take a backseat to their need not to see alleged “misogyny” from some people on the comments section. It’s as if you’re saying that women have no self-control and are incapable of restraining themselves from reading the comments section and stick to reading the articles only.

        Now, regarding jihad3tracker’s alleged “misogyny”. There’s not a trace of misogyny in his post. He makes some allusions about how effeminate a couple of muslim spokesmen are so if you want to conjure a buzzword with a negative connotation you should have used “homophobia”.

        Go ahead – accuse me of mansplaining and being a patriarchy propagating misogynistic pig and storm away. Or surprise me and explain why what jihad3tracker wrote is “misogynistic”.

        Your turn, Sally.

  4. Angemon says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:22 am

    Would Ahmed Mohamed’s 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.

    Indeed, and that’s exactly the methodology we see from the so-called “civil rights activists” for whatever special interest group they defend: feminists focus on female victims of gender-neutral issues to cry “patriarchy”, gays rights activists focus on gay victims of sexual preference neutral issues to cay “homophobia”, black rights activists focus on black victims of race-neutral issues to cry “racism”, etc. And, of course, if a straight white Christian male tries to probe into any of those issues… well, as the saying goes, “‘power to the blacks’, said the black man, ‘power to the asians, said the asian man, ‘power to the whites’, said the racist”.

    On Tuesday, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz wrote an op-ed for The Daily Beast asking us to pay attention to Islam’s “jihadism problem.” (A few decades off, but hey, better late than never, guys.)

    “Better late than never”, no doubt as in “that’s already been dealt with, nothing to see here, but thank you for caring. Now if you could go to your corner and shut the hell up, that would be great”. In any case, this bomb-lookalike-clock incident ended up having a very good timing: “Jihadism in islam? Well, how about islamophobia in America, where a muslim can’t build a clock without being suspected of terrorism?”.

    Because let’s be real. The clock didn’t look like a bomb.

    From the inside and to those who know about electronics? Yes. From the outside and to anyone who just sees a timer and hears a beep on a movie-like bomb case? Houston, we have a negative on that orbit trajectory…

    We have a whole class of professional bigots — I’ve called them “Islamsplainers” — whose very purpose in the world is to tell us what Islam really is.

    Huh, no, that would be the islamic state. In any case, if these so-called “islamsplainers” are “professional”, that means they’re getting paid. And that begs the question: who’s paying them, and why? But demagogues and rabble-rousers are not known by their detailed explanations.

    Except their explanations are based on no evidence, little argument and zero interaction with actual Muslims.

    Huh, no. I’ve seen debates between some of the people he deridingly labels “islamsplainers” and islamic apologists, both muslims and non-muslims. I’ve read arguments and counter-arguments from both sides – I think I can judge for myself who gives evidence and who doesn’t, thank you very much.

    They make broad, sweeping, ridiculous generalizations, which would be wholly and completely unacceptable if directed at any other people.

    Huh, no, they discuss islam and its tenets. There’s a difference between saying, for example, “islam condones slavery” and “all muslims condone slavery” – and, of course, Moghul provides no example of any of the people he mentions saying anything similar to the latter. Meanwhile, there are plenty of people saying things along those lines – the police is racist, Republicans are waging a war on women, you’re a Christian, therefore you want to kill gays and teach Creationism in schools, etc. – and they get away with it.

    Yet America takes them seriously.

    It doesn’t, unfortunately, and that’s part of the problem.

    • Huck Folder says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 12:17 am

      “They make broad, sweeping, ridiculous generalizations, which would be wholly and completely unacceptable if directed at any other people.”

      Isn’t THAT statement SELF-REFERENTIAL?

      PROJECTION?

      Much?

    • Ralph says

      Sep 19, 2015 at 10:11 am

      As a retired engineer, may I offer some perspective on this somewhat obvious PR event. My experience includes having designed and put into production an electro-mechanical “clock” that successfully controlled explosives during NASA rocket flights. The photo of this young Muslim’s “science project clock” could easily be suspected as something more. And one would NOT expect that a public school teacher (even a science teacher) would have the knowledge and experience to immediately be able to tell the difference between the device shown and a BOMB! Several questions immediately come to mind relative to this incident.
      – In my experience, science projects are usually discussed by the student and teacher and approved prior to the action phase of such projects. Has any reporter explored this question? If not, why not? Too concerned with being branded an “Islamophobe” by CAIR?
      – How did this electronic device enter the school? Or was it stopped and inspected by a security guard at the door? None of the “reporting” I have found on-line has provided this key information.
      – The photo shows a 110-vac power cord connected to a transformer (needed, along with an ac-to-dc diode circuit), as well as a snap-on connector that would mate with a standard 9-vdc battery. Was a battery in place when the boy first presented the “clock” to a teacher? And if so, was the clock displaying the time or, alternatively a countdown??
      – It’s been stated publicly elsewhere that the boy’s father is a known “community activist” of the Islamic persuasion. Knowing this, one might reasonably (is the “case closed”, really?) ask whether this “clock” may have easily become a bomb, by adding a chunk of explosive (such as dynamite, HE, H6, or Semtex) and a common blasting cap. In fact my experience answers that question with a resounding “YES”.
      – Given the above, and the many terroristic actions of Muslims in the past several years, it is not being “Islamophobic” to question further the backstory to this event and give the benefit of the doubt to the teacher, administrators and police until all the facts are known. Obama has jumped the gun again by inviting this boy to the Peoples’ House and, based on his history of gun-jumping (“the Boston police acted stupidly…”), it would be reasonable to ask why?
      – The police may publicly pronounce the “case closed”, but, if they are serious Public Safety Officers, they will dig some more. Terrorism is, indeed, the act of creating fear among the public. A seemingly innocent (and what could seem more innocent that a school kid bringing a “science project” to school) action that has created fear, and any reasonable lay person in the USA who had been present at the time, would have experienced that fear, should be treated as a terrorist action. I would not want my grandchild or great-grandchild to attend a school that did not have sufficient ingress security as to prevent a similar action.
      May we have some serious reporting on this story?

  5. Jay Boo says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:27 am

    CNN suffers from a gross inability to ponder what lies beyond the limits of pandering infinity as we know it.

    • Tom W Harris says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 10:44 pm

      CNN = Crescent News Network.

  6. lothos says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:42 am

    …if any of you sometimes think “how have our politicians allowed it to get to this point?!?!”…try this vid…

    The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) and its Role in Enforcing Islamic Law:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey-TRpkUiPI

    …islamophobia is ‘contemporary racism’…coming soon to a school near you…

  7. Jovial Joe says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    I think Mogul is right; I mean, what Muslim schoolchild would ever pursue an interest in engineering for the purpose of carrying out terror attacks? http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/16/palestinian-boy-wants-engineer-can-blow-jews/

  8. abad says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    I’ve thought about this story:

    You know, if that was a real bomb, that kid would have strapped it to himself and detonated it, taking the whole school with him, in true Islamic fashion.

    However.

    He should still be suspended anyways, his “invention” confiscated, and be taught a lesson in the consequences of attention whoring.

    Little Cancer curer.

  9. Shmooviyet says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    Others here have said it already and certainly better than I can, but…
    Here we go again with the “very menacing brownish color” CRAP. Do you and all the other fools never tire of the ‘brown color’ horses—, Mr. Moghul? There are millions of people who live and work and play together every day who don’t give this ‘color’ garbage a second thought. It’s YOU and your ilk who LIVE for it and are forever on desperate lookout for stories such as this to give you a fresh b—-fest opportunity. You got what you wanted, didn’t you? The kid’s a National Victimhood Day hero!
    Sad, tired and BORING.

    • voegelinian says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm

      Moghul is exploiting the race card because he knows the Western mainstream is vulnerable to this on the Islam issue. A clever charlatan like Moghul wouldn’t use a trope or meme that had no traction, or that even worse, had the potential to backfire. The Dezinformatsiya tactic of the Stealth Jihad is to gently massage, with plenty of snake oil, what the Useful Idiocy of Western PC MC is already predisposed to, Recall, for example (just to take one example out of innumerable examples one could adduce) how a few years back, Talking Airhead for MS/NBC news Contessa Brewer voluntarily leaped to conjecture — that the Flying Imams had been discriminated against just like Rosa Parks.

      • Laura says

        Sep 18, 2015 at 8:17 pm

        When is somebody, anybody, going to announce to these idiot media-types that “islam” is NOT a race? I regularly yell this at those airheads, even at FNC.

  10. Dave J says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 2:16 pm

    Islamic apologists are always emotionally overwrought, lacking in both facts and evidence, make illogical arguments, are consumed with arrogance and full of deceit.

    Every one of them, every time they open their mouths. They also refuse to debate because they are conceited little cowards who know they would come off very badly in a rational discussion.

  11. voegelinian says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    Excellent dissection by Spencer of Haroon Moghul’s tissue of kitman-&-taqiyya.

    I noticed also at one point, Moghul tosses off a glibly cheeky parenthetical remark:

    On Tuesday, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz wrote an op-ed for The Daily Beast asking us to pay attention to Islam’s “jihadism problem.” (A few decades off, but hey, better late than never, guys.)

    What Moghul is slylyy telegraphing there is that the Conversation about the problem of jihadism is not a thorny process that has had to evolve struggling with various attempts to minimize it, bristling with uncertainties as to how deep and broad the problem actually is, in an overall sociopolitical-cultural context of a mainstream paradigm determined to keep the dimensions of the problem to a bare minimum of a Tiny Minority of Extremists Who Have Nothing To Do With Islam, in tension with a growing nucleus of diverse, relatively decent and intelligent folks who feel sincerely vexed by questions which challenge the dominant paradigm.

    I.e., Moghul would be — and obviously is for we can smell it by his smarmy, snarky, slimy aftershave — quite content to keep the Problem restrained by the delimitations anxiously maintained by the Useful Idiots of the West who prevail in the mainstream, and who are unwittingly (and witlessly) Moghul’s ideological & demagogic bread and butter.

    *******************

    Wit”less, a. Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment. Witless bravery.” Shak.

    • voegelinian says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 3:33 pm

      “What Moghul is slylyy telegraphing there is that the Conversation about the problem of jihadism is not a thorny process [etc.]…

      — but is rather a done deal — we all know it’s merely a Tiny Minority of Extremists Who Have Nothing To Do With Islam — only distorted, magnified, and kept alive by Islamophobes who insist on fanning the flames because of their bigotry.

  12. RG says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 3:03 pm

    A clock??? Doesn’t look like a bomb???? DAMN!!! Ya sure could’a fooled me….. Anybody consider the possibility of a ‘dry run’ attempt???? I’d say that’s a GOOD POSSIBILITY…..

  13. David says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    Why doesn’t Obama invite the woman who nearly had her head cutoff by a jihadist in OK to the White House? So they were suspicious of him. He isn’t the first person to get searched. And, remember building a time bomb requires a clock. They can’t teach bomb making right away!

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 7:44 pm

      Is there anyone that is making the same judgment that I am? My judgment is that Obama is happy to take another opportunity to lift up Islam by bringing a Muslim boy with a “clock” to the White House and to drill it into America’s conscience that Islam is safe and good and that Americans are getting much too touchy concerning Islam. With the Muslim boy and his “bomb” Obama’s message is: “Relax America! Islam is a religion of peace and of love and full of good works. Don’t worry! Islam is our friend.” (Yeah, until the day comes when Islam is strong enough in America and gets us to live under their Shariah law and the devil.).
      “Please God, help America. She’s going down.”

  14. jj says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    only muslims are doing basterdly deeds no other cult or religion is blowing up and beheading anyone who disagrees with there satanic cult.caution has to be in the air mybe he should have done another project as he is aware of the clock and bombings that islam does.testing the waters may be?

  15. Draki says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 7:42 pm

    Great article and great picture! I agree that it’s the zero tolerance policy to prevent school violence that led to this and not islamophobia.

  16. Casey92 says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    This is nothing but zero-tolerance policy in schools that states ” a policy of punishing any infraction of a rule, regardless of accidental mistakes, ignorance, or extenuating circumstances.” We should all go to the school and protest the policy. It’s stupid……Point your finger at someone, zero-tolerance…….make a radio that looks like a bomb….zero tolerance.

  17. خَليفة says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 10:49 pm

    You know it’s “trickle down BS” ( from Muhammed to imams to jack wads like Moghul ) when they have to make up terms, which are utter nonsense, to justify their point of view.

    Should we say that Muslim sex slave gangs are “trickle down rapists” or that Muslims are guilty of “Trickle down misogyny”? We do say such nonsense If we want to look like an idiot…

    Anything a student does that has even the “appearance of suspicion” should be dealt with appropriately. Just as it is against the law to loudly call out “Hi Jack” when you unexpectedly see your old friend Jack while on a plane – there are actions that are illegal/inappropriate in certain public situations – same as being in the audience at a court trial where you don’t have freedom of speech – try standing and voicing a public concern, or even holding up a “save the whales” sign – you may find yourself in contempt of court, pay a fine or spend time in jail.

    With freedom comes responsibility; many freedoms are context sensitive – you are allowed to do them in some circumstances, but not in others – like flipping out your junk and urinating – into a toilet in a bathroom assigned to your gender, OK, into a toilet on display at Lowes, Not OK.

    When something stupid comes out of a Muslims mouth don’t be fooled or beguiled, expect Taqiyya (تقیة )

  18. somehistory says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    He lives on islam, his eyes are dead and his mouth is open. What more could be expected?

    The entire incident was a set up. This guy’s nonsense was one of the desired results of the set up.

    Make all people who are suspicious of electronic devices brought into schools, restaurants, airports, places of business, that make beeping sounds from a case held or left beside a desk, table, etc., look like racist idiots.
    Their MO is the same: make trouble, pretend innocence, claim racism and islmo phobia, get jobs, money, and compliance with their unlawful code of horrendous conduct.

  19. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 2:52 am

    There’s nothing “irrational” about resisting, refusing, and exposing the terribleness of islam.

    More ham!

    • خَليفة says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 5:18 am

      “More Ham Ed” is an awesome name.

      Why did Allah make pork taste so good if he didn’t want us to eat it?

  20. Veronica Roach says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 6:03 am

    Peaceful Muslims need to understand WHY the West is getting more and more jittery on this subject – just read what your extremists say about their intentions, then watch those peaceful Muslims who are out there fighting the extremists and condemning their ideology – where are they? – I thought that was you ! So what are the rest of us to think when we do not see the condemning or hear those voices – we hear the Extremists and then we hear those of you telling us that WE are wrong in trying to identify who among you are those extremists – without YOU standing up and joining us in the fight we have no idea what to believe !!! So – we have to protect ourselves since your Extremists want to kill all of us, and we do not want that, and we do not know who of your group is the next killer ! Try to understand why we are
    feeling like this – your killers have set this up – why are you not joining us in getting rid of THEM – ah! so you are scared of them yourself – you know they are everywhere and you know your own mosque may have them just waiting to strike – THAT is the problem !!! I now have a deep, deep loathing of this ‘faith’ that has spawned such incredible cruelty in the world, can’t you see that is is leading all of you into the wrong path – where is the ‘peace’ you claim ?

  21. John Collignon says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 6:13 am

    I believe this is a setup specifically arranged to garner national headlines. CAIR and the Muslim activist family involved should be reported by responsible journos. It won’t be.

  22. Tommo says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 8:08 am

    This isn’t a clock but a timer – the sort that can turn on or off electrical circuits connected to it. This is a basic unit easily constructed with IC’s like 555 chips which have been around for years.and doesn’t require a great deal of knowledge at all. A student of Ahmed’s age should be programming micoprocessors by now which indicates his general level of technical ability is very basic.

  23. Balaji Sriivasan says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 10:39 am

    I dont think this was islamophobia. Muslims are engaged in suicide bobing the innocent victims all over the world.If you bring a timer device – in the name of clock – to a school its only natural that the authorities get scared. IT could also be a ploy by the jihadists to test our level of alertness. Believe it or not its only going to get worse as there are more Muslim immigrants moving into their 2nd and 3rd generation with Jihadist views.

  24. Lioness says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 10:54 am

    Boy doodles a picture of a gun, gets suspended from school for 5 days. Boy brings to school a replica of a bomb, gets to meet Obama. Guess which one is a Muslim.

  25. Lenny Thetruth says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    The truth is that this was not a clock. There was no clock face or digital display. What it was is a timing mechanism. Such is the timer in a time bomb. You could attach a read out to it, if you know what you are doing, set a bomb, then remove the read out display. Only you would know where to attach the wire leads and what time it would be set for. This boy refused to answer police questions. He stated he wanted to show this device to his science teacher, but plugged it in while in English class. It made noise.

    When you look at this “clock,” you see a P.C. board, with IC chips. For over 30 years, a single chip has been available to hobbyists who wanted to build a clock. He overbuilt whatever it was that he called a clock, and it made noise when plugged in. He made himself a ticket to the White House, to see his leader.

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