In FrontPage today I discuss the exhortation “If you see something, say something” – which holds true unless the suspicious person is a Muslim.
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 didn’t 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 didn’t 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 didn’t offer any explanation as to what it was for, why he created this device, why he brought it to school.”
Why didn’t 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. 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.”
And it’s true: officials at Irving’s 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 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.
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?

jihad3tracker says
* * * * * * OFF TOPIC BUT IMPORTANT * * * * * *
The upcoming atomic-bomb size impact of the Trump + Muslim incident shows us that truth is breaking through the dike and will never be mopped up.
Faster than I would ever have thought possible, but that is an indicator of how fed up average Americans are with mainstream and politician lies and cluelessness.
There will be some very amusing swim-for-your-life behavior this weekend on the big MSM talking-pundits shows, and the depth of lying is likely to take our breath away..
IF ANYONE HERE FINDS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GUY WHO MADE THE REMARKS TO TRUMP, PLEASE PUT A LINK ! ! !
ECAW says
Jihad3tracker – I’ve no idea what this Trump + Muslim incident is but it sounds interesting. Could you expand a bit? Thanks
ECAW says
OK, found it. Trump didn’t correct a phone in caller who said Obama is a Muslim.
epistemology says
That poor victim. This clock was ostentatiously suspicious and when a muzzie makes such a device it’s even more suspicious. I saw CNN whining about that poor boy today.
Islamophobia isn’t racism but a way to survive. It’s got nothing to do with the skin colour, Western converts to Islam are the worst, always prone to terrorism.
Jay Boo says
At least Ahmed Mohamed doesn’t have a Western slave name.
Oops Islam was a slave trade religion founded for the specific purpose of excusing slavery. I guest he doesn’t read his own religion’s books.
Celtic Sword says
Obama’s new Muslim friend Ahmed is a CHEAT!
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/
psd says
It seems as if the whole thing was a set-up. He (and his father) knew exactly what was going to happen
http://www.unz.com/isteve/more-on-the-medias-latest-chump-out/
Karen says
Ahmed is blameless, and being used like a pawn. Having said that, I noticed he flashed the two finger salute to the media yesterday. Did he mean peace or victory?
Perhaps an enterprising toy maker will develop a new science kit called ‘My Cool Clock’. The Mission Impossible-style brief case and jumble of electrical wiring would be standard. The clock could be calibrated as a count down timer for loads of extra fun. And the deluxe family model could include a pressure cooker for Mom!
jihad3tracker says
Hello Karen —- Sorry to disagree, but I DO NOT believe the kid is a pawn. Check Robert’s post with the video about debating Ahmed’s father.
I would bet dollars to Hungarian money that somewhere in the “clock” building process, Dad said to son “Wow — that could be mistaken for a bomb ! Why don’t you take it to school and see what happens ?”
Raja says
I suspect the same dear.. Sharp analysis….
Karen says
Hi jihad3tracker; I was giving him some slack for being 14, but perhaps nothing should surprise me anymore! :-). What you describe sounds very plausible given who the father is.
Raja says
Very plausible indeed..
Don Foss says
I thought the same thing immediately upon seeing the press conference in front of the school with the polished CAIR-style lawsuits ready to go and the “Islamophobia” narrative thrown out like experienced pros, well prepared. I’d like to know some history on this family and whether they have been Muslim activists or had grievances with the school in the past. I’d put money down there is something more to this.
Catherine says
Robert, i think you’ve been HACKED,! Your video interview with the clockmaker’s father has been replaced by an interview in Islam and human rights by a pro- Islam group. I tried to leave amessage there, but could not!
Angemon says
I refreshed the page and it’s still up. It’s after a 30-minute interview with Walid Phares, as Mr. Spencer noted.
Westman says
“The problem was that it didn’t 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.”
Isn’t it amazing that we’re being educated by movies and TV shows? Imagine the FBI sending its agents for a week of watching TV and movies to learn about the antique appearance of terrorist bombs.
Back in the late 70’s when electronics was making accelerated progress I told the wife I thought those who didn’t learn the new technology would become its dependent victim. How true that has been, cars, TVs, cell phones, and devices that few can repair. Electronic bank accounts, unreachable or useless customer service, identity theft, etc.
Imagine a crisis in which there was little electricity and most electronics no longer worked at all? No phone, no internet, no working automobile.
Raja says
Where was the need to “create”‘ a jumbo clock when you have clocks of all sizes and prizes?
Why doesn’t a 14 year old explain his “great’ work instead of repeating the word clock like a parrot if indeed that happened?
If the politicians made out a big issue or case about this it ONLY SHOWS THAT THIS IS AN ISOLATED CASE and that the politicians aren’t winning any brownie point !!!
This is similar to what happened about a decade ago in another country. A Muslim mother turned over her son to the police for having brought home some stolen stuff, I don’t remember what stuff. Immediately the politicians wanted her to be rewarded with NATIONAL hero’s/bravery award. (As this is a rarity) As there was no PCMC culture prevalent then the proposal was shot down by other politicians.
I personally think the paranoid teachers/administrators in Tx were trapped into a certain thought process by inappropriate response of student (from what I gather) to the question posed to him and the resultant shaming of the teachers etc. Can this be termed as ‘MAKING A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLE”? If it was trap it is worse than that.
It is unfortunate that the politicians aren’t speaking about all the atrocities the Jihadists and its connivers are committing…
Isabella says
ALLAHU CLOCKBAR
Jay Boo says
Extortion, intimidation, veiled threats, grievance mongering.– (Standard Islam)
1 Muslims expect the same rights and more as we have.
2 Muslims further expect special considerations.
3 Muslims expect for non-Muslims to fawn over Islam, and show groveling respect to Muhammad.
Yet, Islam calls us dhimmis or worse.
Muslims display the filth of Muhammad and Qur’an by the way they treat non-Muslims in Muslim countries.
CogitoErgoSum says
When this young future engineer visits the White House I hope we get a video of him explaining his “clock” to the President. Will the device display the current time and will it be easy for the President to see the time at just a glance? Or …. does the clock indicate the proper time through some sort of sound mechanism instead of a visual display? Is the clock quiet while it is running or does it tick or hum or make other noises? What powers the clock? Was the clock part of a class project or did the boy build it on his own initiative? Did his father or anyone else help him in building the device? Did he ask his teacher if he could bring it to school? What did his teacher think of the device and why did the teacher advise him not to show it to others at school? Did the other students at the school know of his technical expertise before this? Had he built other devices and shared them with his friends?
I hope all these questions and more are answered at the White House and will be made available to the public. The publicity will surely spark and encourage a huge interest in science and technology by young people all over the world. Yes, indeed.
What will the President have to say on the occasion? Let’s get this all recorded for posterity. As the old slogan goes, “Enquiring minds need to know.”
voegelinian says
Again (as with a previous essay on this incident —
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/cnn-muslim-teen-arrested-for-clock-because-of-trickle-down-islamophobia), excellent analysis from Spencer of the full complexity of moving parts of this unfolding incident.
The complexity is mostly (if not wholly) a feature of the fact that Spencer has to fend with the mainstream narrative that unremarkably mandates that we treat the problem of Muslims as we treat the problem of any other culture or people — innocent until proven guilty, in an assumed context where we have no reason to be generally suspicious prior to smoking-gun evidence (and where any smoking-gun evidence that might be found is assumed to pertain, always and only, to a Tiny MInority of Extremists Who Have Nothing To Do With Islam).
Spencer’s analysis thus resembles the excellently efficient work of someone doing a “clean-up on aisle 9” — where the mess has been made by Muslims and their Useful Idiots in our Western mainstream. This situation would seem indefinite, if not permanent, if it were not clear to those “with a mental pencil capable of connecting the dots” (as Hugh Fitzgerald has put it) that the problem of Muslims is not static nor stable, but is metastasizing (= getting horribly worse exponentially over time). The mainstream paradigm, within whose constraints Spencer is diligently and patiently working (if indeed he does not share in key points), will be forced, by Muslims, to give way to a rational prejudice against all Muslims qua their Islam. The question is not whether, but only when — will it be before, or after, they succeed in mass-murdering a few million of us in various parts of the West and wreaking horrific gouges of damage to our infrastructure along with traumatic dislocations in economy, culture and psychology? And can this process of waking up be accelerated, so that we as a society can try to get ahead of the curve on it…? And should this not be a sociopolitical vector of a meme which the Counter-Jihad should be trying to advance (since who else would be inclined to do that)?
Blitz2b says
A Clock reinvented? why exactly? What does it do? Tell the time or Time travel? All that complicated circuitry……….. just to tell the time? seems rather suspicious don’t you think?
In reality it is Techno Taquiyya . The goal was exactly what was achieved in the end. ” … Cast terror into the hearts of the infidels…. “The reaction to this “fear prank” brought about an “islamophobic” reaction in the school authority and then the police “brutality”….which in turn It wound up the leftist Islam-sympathizer idiots that were lying dormant for a few weeks.
Can you imagine the sympathies and the rewards this youngster has received with this “prank”? The President of the United States Invites Ahmed with his ‘clock’ to the White House, Mark Zuckerberg of the Facebook empire offers Ahmed to join his team, and he receives educational and career promises from MIT and other bleeding heart idiots…. WOW ! ! ! have we all in the west, gone raving mad? ? ?
If someone had to bring a contraption like this through security at an airport, he would get arrested immediately, no matter how innocent it proved to be later, which is exactly what the school and police reacted. Yes they may have been a bit harsh, but do you blame them when there are scores of genuine cases where Muslim youth are involved in promoting Islamic terror or supporting the cause of ISIS?
In this climate of Islamic terrorism threats, there is absolutely nothing wrong with profiling Muslims if it serves a much greater cause, which is saving the lives of scores of innocent people.
Hurt Muslim sentiments are getting rather tiresome, yet not surprisingly still gets the attention of the left….
Raja says
You said it right FEAR PRANK– in all probability, considering his father an Islamic apologist.
This prank has served Islam the way it has been doing for ages.
We Muslims are a persecuted lot.
Democracy is nonsense,
West has no morality
West is atheistic. filthy, idiotic, Western women are whores, All of Western system is man made(ours if God given)
If the West has swallowed all the above lies gleefully it might as well enjoy this probable prank…”smart” invaders!!!! Look at their “smartness” they figured out how some idiots would invite them and create headlines..
Walter Sieruk says
As stated before, after taking a look hard and long look at all the facts, not feelings or emotions,it may be be seen that those people who the apologists for Islam accuse of being “Islamophobia” are actually.just people who,in reality have a strong case of Islamorealism. In that they are not deceived, as in taken in by or fooled by the cover up and falsehoods said by the imams , mullahs and other propagandists for Islam. For those apologists for Islam make false statements or false claims in their attempt to hide the facts about the violent and deadly nature that compose the essence of that religion.
somehistory says
Possible scenario, based on the fact of who the father is and the quick actions of cair getting into it, with the *kid* being invited D.C.
father: buys a timer kit, puts it together, gives it to kid on Sunday and says, “Here, take this clock
, fiddle around with it for a few minutes (the kid said he worked on it for 20 minutes) and then take it to school.”
Kid: “okay.” Messes with the wires, listens to it beep and gets it together in his back pack.
father to cair: “It’s done. He’ll be taking it in the morning.”
ciar: “Does he know what he’s supposed to say?”
father: “i told him it’s a clock. He knows what to do.”
kid takes the *timing device* and after being told by his engineering…(i wasn’t aware ninth graders could take engineering…will have to check my sources in Texas)…teacher not to show it to anyone else, he deliberately makes the hidden device beep.
Whereupon, the teacher….who is supposed to check out such things in the classroom where he/she is overseeing the kids and their English work…sees the device and Does Her Job.
kid: It’s a clock.” He didn’t say anything about why he brought to school…he would have exposed the plan cooked up by his father and cair. He didn’t tell her that his other teacher had already seen it and …didn’t take it away from him…he didn’t say that the other teacher told him specifically not to show it to anyone else. By only saying “it doesn’t look like a bomb to me” and “it’s a clock,” he got the desired effect.
Some have said this was an over reaction by the teacher and others there who have the obligation to protect the other students. I don’t agree. The drawing of guns by little kids who were suspended, the eating of the pop tart and incidents of saying ‘bang’ were met with over reaction.
This was not over reaction. This was what is called *erring on the side of caution.* The teacher was right.
This was a set up from the beginning in order to make suspicion itself look bad. To put all who are diligent in caring for those over whom they have authority look bad and to look *stupid.*
There will be others and they will be named some form of islam or moham….ud, ed, ad, mmud…And one day, probably not to distant, there will be one with a timer fixed to an explosive. But the teachers and principals and others will be too afraid to say anything. Their islomophobia will have become fully engaged. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the goal.
Dave J says
Exactly. It was an obvious setup, not an “invention”. From all appearances it was a countdown timer assembled from a kit (I’ve assembled one myself, for more pedestrian reasons).
And the little suitcase, the sudden beeping during English class, all pre-planned.
Linde Barrera says
To somehistory- As per your 1:59 pm Sept. 18, 2015 post, what you wrote was clear and well thought out, but teachers, principals, and superintendents cannot be cowed or bullied by nonsense like this boy’s “clock” and the big hoopla it caused, because it is their jobs to always be on watch and keep students safe, every student. Take care, somehistory.
somehistory says
Linde. we can all hope that the teacher doesn’t lose her job over this. We can hope that she will be able to keep working on behalf of all of the other students who depend on her for care and learning. I have close relatives in N. Texas and it concerns me that so much *admiration* and extra coddling of this boy may lead him and/or others to take terror further than a suspicious timing device in a briefcase and the act of causing it to beep during class.
I firmly believe this was a dry run and a means to gain attention for the *cause* of making people afraid to question suspicious items in the schools and to make anyone who has to deal with muslims…whether they be students or otherwise…back off from doing due diligence.
Hopefully there are teachers, principals and LE who still have the will to say, “Don’t Mess With Texas.” Even after this incident that could have turned out much worse.
voegelinian says
“I firmly believe this was a dry run and a means to gain attention for the *cause* of making people afraid to question suspicious items in the schools and to make anyone who has to deal with muslims…whether they be students or otherwise…back off from doing due diligence.”
This fear of being overly suspicious of Muslims was a real factor in the months leading up to the Fort Hood attack (where an American Muslim psychologist in the US Army opened fire on Americans at Fort Hood, murdering 13 (including one pregnant woman), obviously intending to murder many more in his islamo-orgiastic bloodlust until he was finally stopped by a bullet). In the months leading up to the terror attack, the Muslim who would turn out to be the terror attacker, Nidal Hasan, showed plenty of warning signs. However, for example —
“Fort Hood jihadist’s coworkers saw warning signs, but said nothing for fear of seeming bigoted”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/fort-hood-jihadists-coworkers-saw-warning-signs-but-said-nothing-for-fear-of-seeming-bigoted
If even US military are this afraid of violating PC MC, what do you think high school techers will do?
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“This fear of being overly suspicious of Muslims was a real factor in the months leading up to the Fort Hood attack
(…)
“Fort Hood jihadist’s coworkers saw warning signs, but said nothing for fear of seeming bigoted””
So, which is it? Were his colleagues afraid of suspecting him or did they correctly guessed his intentions but kept their silence because they didn’t want to be the face of “islamophobia in the Army”?
somehistory says
Vo,
Military people have more rules and regs than do school personnel. For one thing, they sign up for a certain length of time and have to “follow orders” or else. School officials have a little more in the way of freedom of action to take action. I’m not overly optimistic about future actions by this teacher or any other. But, I can hope.
Incek Mahallesi says
Voegy the Ass:
“If even US military are this afraid of violating PC MC, what do you think high school techers will do?”
Oh, I don’t know – maybe learn to spell “techers” correctly, for starters?
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Pfft! Teachers and the military have nothing to do with one another, except in the Doctor’s addled, paranoid mind.
Rebecca says
Even the atheists have gotten in on the “clock” and are raising money for the poor dear child. I saw a photo of the “clock” and it was an alarm clock torn apart and attached to the inside of a briefcase. Unless his science teacher was into bomb making, I don’t think he would have been thinking kind thoughts about the “clock,” and he would have not been impressed over the non-invention. The poor dear child has a warped sense of humor if nothing else. The Left is loving it. Now they have made another excuse to teach Islam in the schools.
voegelinian says
Normally, I try not to read Angemon’s replies to my posts, as I have learned the hard way by long experience that they are riddled with rabbit trails of nitpicking sophistry. I had a few minutes to spare, however, and my curiosity here got the better of me — what on earth could Angemon possibly have found to nitpick this time…!!!???
It eppears that here the nit that he wanted to waste time on was my verb “being” — as in the “fear of being overly suspicious of Muslims” which Angemon, in bad faith (as usual) insists on distinguishing from what I meant — appearing to be overly suspicious of Muslims. For, there are two ways of “being” something. I can “be” suspicious of Muslims in my head but never show that I am; or I can “be” suspicious of Muslims both in my head and by showing it. In casual parlance, people often use the word “be” in the latter sense, and people in good faith charitably assume they meant that (or if they are wondering, they would ask them in good faith to specify which they meant, rather than posing it in the snidely rhetorical way Angemon did). That said, the question itself is a good question to pose not to me — but to those who chose to put their PC MC anxieties over their concern for the safety of their fellow men and women. For we have had other instances of the psychological confusion of being and appearing. Consider, for example (as I noted in a post at Jihad Watch some six years ago):
o?On September 11, 2001, a ticket agent named Michael Tuohey at the Portland, Maine, airport looked into Mohammed Atta’s eyes and said he “felt a chill”. He said he had a sense this guy could be an “Arab terrorist” (the use of “Arab” instead of “Muslim” explains the rest of the story). But then, says Michael Tuohey, he gave himself a “mental slap” and told himself “that’s not nice” to be so bigoted! And he waved Mohammed Atta through, and a few hours later some 3,000 Americans were dead.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7117783/ (thanks to Lawrence Auster who put up a post about this on his blog)
As I wrote at the time about what we can reasonably infer from that information:
“…what we do know is that his heart and mind were suffused with PC MC, and he had become a voluntary self-policer of his suppressed rationality: when he saw an “ethnic” looking person whom his instincts told him was potentially dangerous, he stifled those instincts because of the greater good of avoiding “bigotry” and “prejudice” against ethnic people. That in a microcosmic nutshell explains the main reason why the entire West continues to be irrational about the problem of Muslims: the PC MC doctrine of Reverse Racism.”
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“Normally, I try not to read Angemon’s replies to my posts”
And before allegedly trying not to read you were done with reading them, even though you replied to them directly and indirectly. Why keep the farce?
“as I have learned the hard way by long experience that they are riddled with rabbit trails of nitpicking sophistry.”
For which you never, ever – not even once – gave a proper explanation. It’s sophistry because you say so, much like any criticism of islam, muslims or muhammad is islamophobia because muslims say so.
“ I had a few minutes to spare, however, and my curiosity here got the better of me — what on earth could Angemon possibly have found to nitpick this time…!!!???”
You said that my posts made you ill – one would expect that a person would stay away from what makes them ill, not try them whenever they have a few minutes to spare. Again, why keep up the farce that you don’t read, or try not to read, my posts?
“It eppears that here the nit that he wanted to waste time on was my verb “being” ”
It appears you’re wrong.
“— as in the “fear of being overly suspicious of Muslims” which Angemon, in bad faith (as usual)”
Again, you’ve never proved that anything I ever said or did was in bad faith.
“insists on distinguishing from what I meant — appearing to be overly suspicious of Muslims.”
Oh, it’s one of those instances where you said something but meant something else entirely different! Well, colour me surprised and knock me down with a feather!
“ For, there are two ways of “being” something. I can “be” suspicious of Muslims in my head but never show that I am; or I can “be” suspicious of Muslims both in my head and by showing it. In casual parlance, people often use the word “be” in the latter sense, and people in good faith charitably assume they meant that (or if they are wondering, they would ask them in good faith to specify which they meant, rather than posing it in the snidely rhetorical way Angemon did).”
Lol, voeg accusing someone of being snide! Oh, the irony! And not only that, accusing someone of being in bad faith and not asking – remember that time where you accused Jamie Glazov of being a former leftist, or that time you accused Robert Spencer of genuinely expecting ISIS to condemn beheadings? Also, if what I said is meant to be rhetorical (because, apparently, in know more about my intentions than me, so much so you don’t even need to ask me about it), well, why are you trying to answer it?
Now, if I pointed out a blatant contradiction that you overlooked, and you were trying to save face…
Let’s see: because of his demeanour and professed views his colleagues were afraid he might go jihadi one day. The FBI monitored his email exchanges with Anwar al-Awlaki.
Of course, nothing in your latest smear piece addresses the main point of what I asked: if his colleagues were afraid of being overly suspicious of Muslims how could have they seen the warning signs? If they afraid of being overly suspicious of muslims, how come his suspicious behaviours and attitudes were forwarded via the proper channels to the proper authorities, who chose to ignore it?
“ Consider, for example (as I noted in a post at Jihad Watch some six years ago):
o?On September 11, 2001, a ticket agent named Michael Tuohey at the Portland, Maine, airport looked into Mohammed Atta’s eyes and said he “felt a chill”. He said he had a sense this guy could be an “Arab terrorist” (the use of “Arab” instead of “Muslim” explains the rest of the story). But then, says Michael Tuohey, he gave himself a “mental slap” and told himself “that’s not nice” to be so bigoted! And he waved Mohammed Atta through, and a few hours later some 3,000 Americans were dead.”
Huh, so what? We’re talking about the army, FBI and Major Hasan, not a ticket agent in 2001. Do try to keep up. And I know I’ve mentioned this, but it’s an important point: his behaviour was forwarded via the proper channels to the proper authorities. Clearly, someone who dealt with Hasan on a daily basis was not afraid of suspecting him.
Basically, you made a claim that not only you can’t provide evidence for, you also contradicted later on the very same post, and now you’re trying to save face.
voegelinian says
somehistory,
Surely the “more” rules and regs of the military don’t include a rule or regulation such as: “Avoid reporting suspiciously dangerous behavior from demonstrably unstable personnel that could lead to murderous violence against our men and women”.
voegelinian says
Then consider the sentiments of a Norwegian blogger, Bjørn Stærk, whom the counter-jihad blogger Fjordman described thusly:
Bjørn Stærk is the “grand old man” of Norwegian blogging. He started writing before I had even heard of the word “blog”, and is still one of the most widely read bloggers in this country.
Back in 2008, Jihad Watch reported Bjørn Stærk’s expression of shameless ethical narcissism:
“Brave is sitting down calmly on a plane behind a row of suspicious-looking Arabs, ignoring your own fears, because you know those fears are irrational, and because even if there’s a chance that they are terrorists, it is more important to you to preserve an open and tolerant society than to survive this trip. Brave is insisting that Arabs not be searched more carefully in airport security than anyone else, because you believe that it is more important not to discriminate against people based on their race than to keep the occasional terrorist from getting on a plane.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/09/norwegian-blogger-political-correctness-is-more-important-than-life-itself
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“Then consider the sentiments of a Norwegian blogger, Bjørn Stærk”
And that relates to Nadik Hasan how?
voegelinian says
Correction: that old Jihad Watch article about the Norwegian blogger was from 2006, nearly ten years ago. I just perused the lengthy comments field there; ah, those were the good old days, when Jihad Watchers didn’t show so much nougaty softness as they seem to these days (take note of one contributor, “remote control”…who is moi).
voegelinian says
“(i wasn’t aware ninth graders could take engineering…will have to check my sources in Texas)”
I just looked up the teaching staff of Ahmed’s high school (MacArthur High School, Iriving, TX). No “engineering” teachers there — unless the subject of one teacher there (Scott McTee), “A&P” means “Air Frame & Power Plant” — which would be an even stranger high school subject than engineering per se…?
full list:
http://www.irvingisd.net/Page/9140
somehistory says
That is about what I thought. He doesn’t take engineering…it’s the islam superiority delusion.
Incek Mahallesi says
Donkey:
“…unless the subject of one teacher there (Scott McTee), “A&P” means “Air Frame & Power Plant” — which would be an even stranger high school subject than engineering per se…?
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Right. Yet another, stupid comment from the Doctor, who assumes something to be the truth, yet is far removed from reality. A&P is maintenance on aircraft, dummy – NOT ENGINEERING. Get your homework done before you blow nonsense about teachers and curriculum.
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“WHAT IS AN A&P MECHANIC?
What Exactly is an Aircraft Maintenance Technician and what do they do?
An aircraft maintenance technician refers to an individual who holds an Airframe and/or Powerplant (A&P) certificate which is issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Just like pilots there are rules for certification and regulations which must be abided by for use of their license. An A&P technician inspects aircraft as well as performs, supervises and conducts preventive maintenance.
http://www.naa.edu/programs/what_is_an_ap_mechanic
G179 says
Remember this: The Tsarnaev brothers looked just as innocent while assembling their pressure cooker bomb. Would Obama tweet “Hey Tsarnaev, cool pressure cooker! Wanna bring it to the white house”?
Myxlplik says
Oh I see, just a case of mistaken suitcase clock identity, nothing to see here…
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Clock is Ticking on “Islamophobia”
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The “clock is ticking” on Infidels being able to exercise the least resistance to the threat of Jihad, if this Muslim’s father and CAIR have their way…
mortimer says
The real ticking clock is the Muslim population preparing for jihad…especially the Muslim youth.
Alan says
Actually even the tech in the story does not add up. http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/
Catherine says
This just in from Canada ! http://www.therebel.media/jail_khadr
Cecilia Ellis says
Catherine, how in the world did a convicted murderer get bail in the first place? This is absolutely perilous to Canadians and to Americans. I am stunned that a judge ordered that Omar Kahdr’s ankle-bracelet tracking device be removed because, of all things, Omar complained that it interfered with his playing soccer. This al-Qaeda terrorist is actually worse than Paul Bernardo. That law enforcement has been ordered to remove any tracking of Omar’s online activities is equally absurd. Here is an unrepentant, gloating terrorist who is walking the streets freely, one who is highly skilled in making IEDs. Besides being racist and sexist, he murdered an American medic and who knows how many other Canadians and Americans died as a direct result of IEDs personally constructed by him. What a disgrace! All Canadians need to sign the petition found at the link you provided and they need to include their comments. I would have signed it, but I am not Canadian. Thanks to you, Catherine, for putting out the word.
Bezelel says
Seems like a sick practical joke that betrays the depth of contempt for western culture. Desensitizing our awareness to possible threats doesn’t help anyone but the one planning to bring the real bomb to class. How can anyone expect an authority figure with responsibility to ignore an imitation bomb? hussein obola is blatantly showing us his true colors and they are not Red White and Blue.
Edward says
It’s being great fun tracking these misguided Muslims shenanigans as long they cause no harm to our American brothers and sisters. Change their bombastical activities to horrific atrocities we will be forced to proceed by the precedent suggestion.
The Keystone Cops Administration has to be stopped:
It’s all Satan’s fault that we going through this “Keystone Cop” mode!
I’m beginning to think that Iran’s Khamenei has it right about America…..that Satan has landed in America and sits in hallow ground…..the white house’s oval room desk.
Our creator has given us a gift, at the moment of our conception, that is rarely used or we are oblivious of its power to control our destiny’s safety!
This gift comes in a form of a virtue; our Courage is our advantage over evil!
Our Cowardice immunes our defenses against evil!
This was revealed in the NT- James 4:7, to help us overcome all of Satan’s daily interfering tactics by:
Submit yourselves*, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
*First of all submit ourselves to the virtue of Courage that will help to manifest into our spiritual strength to outdo any evil anywhere, anytime!
voegelinian says
That’s nice. We have an annex outside the Big Tent of the Counter-Jihad where you can play with coloring books all day long and not interfere with the grownups.
Edward says
Yeah, thanks for trying to tell me about this place of yours…….I didn’t know this venue existed….since you know about so much of what we might find there makes me believe that you have been a lifelong member. BTW, why don’t you try expanding your mind further by learning of what other productive or manifesting thoughts adults explore into!
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Isn’t something being overlooked in this whole affair? Why was Ahmed, the Boy Inventor, wearing a NASA T-shirt? When Charles Bolden was appointed as administrator of NASA in 2010, Bolden said of the job President Obama gave him, “… perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering.” This singular achievement by an enterprising young Muslim horologist is one fruit of NASA’s Muslim outreach program. Details at
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/06/nasa-administrator-muslim-outreach-a-top-priority/
StarWish246 says
After 1400 years of giving the rest of the world GRIEF, all I can say is: Muslims – it is ALL on YOU!
Celtic Sword says
Obama loves cheats. That 14YO Muslim was a CHEAT. This electronics engineer found the very model of the clock used by Ahmed, Obama’s new friend. Read here:
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/
DeMolay says
If anyone tried to take that device through and airport they could expect some pretty harsh treatment.
The fact it was a school is irrelevant. Sadly, thanks to Islam, the world we live in means vigilance is necessary. Muslims want to kill people day after day so until that stops I hope teachers and everyone else won’t be put off being vigilant.
I’m still shocked by the landslide of liberal left reaction to this calling for heads and sackings and worse.
voegelinian says
Excellent article linked by Celtic Sword. It’s by a tech geek who understands normal people (rare for tech geeks), so he explains things that would satisfy both types of people. Crucially, he presents a sound case (pun intended) for the argument that contrary to Ahmed’s own claim, Ahmed didn’t “invent” a damn thing:
Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. It all seems really fishy to me.
If we accept the story about “inventing” an alarm clock is made up, as I think I’ve made a pretty good case for, it’s fair to wonder what other parts of the story might be made up, not reported factually by the media, or at least, exaggerated.
The writer has many other useful observations, such as:
I refer back again to this YouTube video interview with Ahmed. He explains that he closed up the box with a piece of cord because he didn’t want it to look suspicious. I’m curious, why would “looking suspicious” have even crossed his mind before this whole event unfolded, if he was truly showing off a hobby project, something so innocuous as an alarm clock. Why did he choose a pencil box, one that looks like a miniature briefcase no less, as an enclosure for a clock? It’s awful hard to see the clock with the case closed. On the other hand, with the case open, it’s awful dangerous to have an exposed power transformer sitting near the snooze button (unless, perhaps his invention was to stop serial-snooze-button pressers by giving them a dangerous electrical shock!)
And what impressed me about this writer (“Anthony”) was that after establishing his tech geek cred, he perfectly understands why teachers, administration and police reacted the way they did (i.e., unlike the Electronics Wing of the Counter Jihad, he didn’t pooh-pooh those concerns because “obviously the clock was not a bomb, anybody could see that!”). Thus:
If we stop and think – was it really such a ridiculous reaction from the teacher and the police in the first place? How many school shootings and incidents of violence have we had, where we hear afterwards “this could have been prevented, if only we paid more attention to the signs!” Teachers are taught to be suspicious and vigilant. Ahmed wasn’t accused of making a bomb – he was accused of making a look-alike, a hoax. And be honest with yourself, a big red digital display with a bunch of loose wires in a brief-case looking box is awful like a Hollywood-style representation of a bomb. Everyone jumped to play the race and religion cards and try and paint the teachers and police as idiots and bigots, but in my mind, they were probably acting responsibly and erring on the side of caution to protect the rest of their students, just in case. “This wouldn’t have happened if Ahmed were white,” they say. We’re supposed to be sensitive to school violence, but apparently religious and racial sensitivity trumps that.
Tell that to Angemon and Incek (PJ), Anthony. Apparently after reading Jihad Watch reports for years, they still haven’t gotten the memo – of how our PC MC mainstream indeed, in multiple ways amounting to a motherfucking mountain of data they must be blind as bats not to see, lets the race card for Muslims trump other important concerns.
Western Canadian says
” It’s by a tech geek who understands normal people (rare for tech geeks),”
You obviously don’t know many, if any, tech’s. As a tech who was quite well regarded by people seeking help for my ability to reply to them in terms that they had no trouble understanding, I feel at home commenting on the techs who did otherwise.
I found them to be the least qualified, least competent of techs. And the trait that gave them away as second raters? Their efforts to confuse, to overstate, to overblow. To bring in and miss-use terminology which did NOT relate to the technology or the subject at hand. Rather like an egomaniac who posts and posts and posts at Jihadwatch, going out of his way to try to impress but only succeeding at boring and insulting people with his pathetic rhetoric, and common name calling. He has been banned on occasion, but like a foot fungus, keeps coming back.
Hey, Angemon, does that sound like anyone you know???
Angemon says
Western Canadian posted:
“As a tech who was quite well regarded by people seeking help for my ability to reply to them in terms that they had no trouble understanding, I feel at home commenting on the techs who did otherwise.
I found them to be the least qualified, least competent of techs. And the trait that gave them away as second raters? Their efforts to confuse, to overstate, to overblow. To bring in and miss-use terminology which did NOT relate to the technology or the subject at hand.”
I can attest this happens in the IT field – the least competent/knowledgeable people I’ve worked with were also the ones who were unable to give straight answers and liked to boast about all manner of irrelevant crap.
“Hey, Angemon, does that sound like anyone you know???”
Definitely 😉
If he confined himself only to try to pass as knowledgeable he’d be palatable and a minor nuisance, but he actively tries to take a dump on those better than him so he can look cleaner and better smelling by comparison. As such, he’s a detriment to the site and the CJ movement in general.
voegelinian says
Well, that was 90 seconds of my life I’ll never get back…
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“It’s by a tech geek who understands normal people (rare for tech geeks)”
So “tech geeks” are not normal people, eh? You sound like someone who graduated in Fine Arts or Language and has an abhorrence of anything tech related.
“Tell that to Angemon and Incek (PJ), Anthony. Apparently after reading Jihad Watch reports for years, they still haven’t gotten the memo – of how our PC MC mainstream indeed, in multiple ways amounting to a motherfucking mountain of data they must be blind as bats not to see, lets the race card for Muslims trump other important concerns.”
Let’s see: you recently accused me of being a passive-aggressive, hate-filled bully obsessed with you because I replied to some of your comments. And yet, you’re the one who on dozens, if not scores, of occasions prompted a reply by, like you did here, lying about me. With that in mind, it seems your description of me was done by looking into a mirror and writing down what you saw… And the irony here is that not even two weeks ago you described me as being an “assiduously anti-Islam veteran Jihad Watcher”. So, am I an “assiduously anti-Islam veteran Jihad Watcher” or didn’t I get the memo because I’m blind as a bat?
Also, again with your “muslims have a special status because of their race” nonsense? You’re not even beating a dead horse by now, considering the number of people who called you out and wiped the floor with you on that, you’re beating the place where a dead horse lay before you furiously and feverishly beat him into atoms because you’re physically incapable to admit that the people you relentlessly mock and deride are right and you’re wrong. If it’s all about race, why is it that African, South American or Middle Eastern non-muslims get the same privileges as muslims? Why is it that when muslims wage war against people of the same ethnicity as them the international community sides with the muslims? Your explanation has been tested and it’s found wanting. And you should know that by now, seeing how many times you were asked this kind of questions. But no, much better to repeat your flawed PoV than admit you’re wrong – if you repeat a lie long enough people will eventually buy into it – Goebbels would be proud, etc.
Angemon says
Where it reads “If it’s all about race, why is it that African, South American or Middle Eastern non-muslims get the same privileges as muslims?”
it should read
“If it’s all about race, why is it that African, South American or Middle Eastern non-muslims do notget the same privileges as muslims?
Must have accidentally erased that bit when trying to apply bold. D’oh!
Incek Mahallesi says
Voegy:
“Apparently after reading Jihad Watch reports for years, they still haven’t gotten the memo – of how our PC MC mainstream indeed, in multiple ways amounting to a motherfucking mountain of data they must be blind as bats not to see, lets the race card for Muslims trump other important concerns.”
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Oh, you mean the “race card memo” that we didn’t get that refers to BROWN MEXICAN CATHOLICS? You know, the ones who keep getting a pass on their race vis a vis illegal immigration, (yes, that very important concern) yet their religion doesn’t come up at all with the PCMC mainstream?
Is that the memo you keep harping on?
Or how about those black Christians, who don’t get a pass on their religion, even though they’re black? Did I miss that memo too?
Did you write the memo? Why didn’t you include it in the multiple grievance-mongering emails that you sent out, demanding that JWatchers come to your rescue?
Too busy emulating Goebbels, huh?
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Angemon and PJ wiped the floor with you on this years ago, yet there you are – scavenging for crumbs on the tile of your discredited theories, desperately lying and prevaricating in an insane effort to assuage your vastly overblown sense of worth and entitlement…just like a Mozlem would do.
Jay Boo says
voegelinian begins on a reasonable seeming path only morph into a deception that falsely misrepresents his opposition’s position. He implies that he is a champion against Muslims who use the race card but ignores how he himself milks his ‘brown people’ meme to the point of race baiting as if Islam were a race.
Once again, voegelinian proves he can be a real Scheiße-Kopf.
Incek Mahallesi says
Jay:
“Once again, voegelinian proves he can be a real Scheiße-Kopf.”
Yeah. I guess the only question is, is when his schtick becomes so tiresome to the rest of us that more people on this blog start calling him out on it.
He’s a donkey. A paranoid, narcissistic ass, Jay – but you already knew that. You don’t need me or Philip to remind you.
Incek Mahallesi says
And, of course, Voegelinian has proven, once again, that he is a stickler for form – but not substance, as he blithely trolls on in here, lies about PJ and Angemon in the form of a giant, narcissistic turd – then hi-tails it out at the first sign or semblance of a counter-argument to his pseudo-argument. He never responds in kind. He’s a phony.
And that is his one-trick pony. But sooner or later, that pony’s gonna’ keel over, due to the merciless and unending whippings that Voegelinian seems hell-bent on issuing.
Voegelinian is an illogical, hateful, paranoid entity that assumes much too much – then “crafts” those assumptions into a pseudo-argument, replete with multiple fallacies, imaginary mind-reading capabilities and out-an-out lying about what other people think, say, and do on this forum.
Again – and for the thousandth time, I give you the term: Transmogrification:
Voegelinian has become the monster of his wildest, violent dreams. He is as close to a Mozlem apologist as one can be, without being a Mozlem
Jay Boo says
It is a shame that Voegelinian goes out of his way to attack other commenters because some of his anti-Islam comments are good as gravenimage has noted.
But, then voegy gets one of his “(asymptotic)” spasms and becomes a Franken-blogger.
gravenimage says
Yes, that is an excellent article, Celtic Sword. Thanks for the link.
voegelinian says
there’s graven, ignoring what her friends are doing
Jay Boo says
My apologies to gravenimage if in any way by my cutting voeg some slack it further enticed and encouraged him to act like a needy narcissistic jerk (again).
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Jay Boo said,
It is a shame that Voegelinian goes out of his way to attack other commenters because some of his anti-Islam comments are good as gravenimage has noted.
But, then voegy gets one of his “(asymptotic)” spasms and becomes a Franken-blogger.
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“there’s graven, ignoring what her friends are doing”
Hi voegelinian.
A few questions:
1 – Who are graven’s friends?
2 – What are they doing?
3 – Why should graven not “ignore” it?
4 – How do you know graven is “ignoring” whatever it is you think she’s ignoring and simply hasn’t, for one reason or another, gotten around to it?
5 – If graven is “ignoring” whatever it is you claim she’s ignoring, why don’t you simply do whatever it is you expect her to do?
PB says
Except he didn’t build it at all.
Excellent article:
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/
DeMolay says
Someone PLEASE go onto Huffington Post and make a comment of sanity. Every single one of the hundreds on there is not seeing this story for what it is, and saying everyone should be fired and sued. Everyone involved is racist etc. I’m not on Facebook so can’t leave a comment.
Celtic Sword says
The PC bleeding hearts brigade are out in full without even checking FACTS…Ahmed id a CHEAT…he did NOT make a clock…
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/
jihad3tracker says
——– EXCELLENT DISCOVERY ——— All readers here should check this video, made by an electrical engineer who, like most of us here, smelled something rotten.
You could even send a hotlink to your local MSM over-the-air station TV, and recommend that the news director forward it on to the corporate network senior producer.
1. EMPHASIZE THAT IN THE VIDEO, AHMED ACTUALLY SAID HE TIED UP THE OUTER CASE SO THAT IT WOULD NOT LOOK “SUSPICIOUS”.
2. Also that it is highly unlikely he got the project ready without discussing it with his father, who, if he were acting in a responsible way, would have said “That could be mistaken for a bomb. Leave it at home.”
3. But, who, being an activist, more than likely had the Muslim-victimhood alternative in mind: “Take it to school and let’s see what happens.”
4. Watching the kid in the interview, notice that he looks as if inwardly thinking (and wanting to say “I knew big trouble would happen, and told that to my stupid father, but he insisted I do it anyway.”
Huck Folder says
Slightly O/T, The Clarion Project has done sterling work in the past, and maybe many readers of Jihad Watch follow them, but when I saw this, I immediately cancelled my link to them:
http://www.clarionproject.org/blog/usa/difference-between-clock-and-bomb
“On the Difference Between a Clock and a Bomb
No-one takes tackling terrorism more seriously than Clarion Project [Up till now]. When a 14-year-old boy is arrested for bringing a homemade [commercially manufactured] digital clock to school, that goes way beyond national security needs. [Is that your specialty?]
“BY ELLIOT FRIEDLAND September 17th, 2015”
…
“Since the story broke thousands of [gullible] people around the world have showed their support for Ahmed Mohamed using #IStandWithAhmed.
“Human-rights activists on the forefront of the fight against Islamism including Faisal Saeed al-Mutar, Maajid Nawaz and Ali A. Rizvi have stood behind Ahmed on their Facebook pages. [idiots also]
“They have all suffered personally from Islamism first hand and know all too well the necessity of defeating that toxic ideology.
“What happened to Ahmed was not defence against terrorism. It was RACIST.”
REALLY? And what RACE would that be?
“We have to know how far is too far.”
THIS is too far. The son of a media-whore re-packaged a clock, was ‘thrifty’ with his answers to police, but ALL OVER the MSM (moslem socialist media) and cair.
And the KNEE-JERK reactions of those who should know better, makes you wonder if they all have moslem run PR departments.
Liberals against Islam says
You could try commenting on the article, and I wish you more luck than I had.
My comment doesn’t appear unless I’m logged in but, weirdly, it did appear on my facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Liberals-Against-Islam-1520132154919748/timeline/
Whether they pre-moderate or only take comments from personal accounts rather than pages I don’t know – I’ll never understand Facebook!
jihad3tracker says
Hello DeMolay — I got one comment up yesterday (under an alias). But the internet news cycle moves so fast that HuffPo’s article is ancient by now.
I’d advise JW readers here to spend the time and energy on a much juicier mess for Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Chris Christie. [There may be other candidates too but I did not hear their statements last night.]
LET’S CALL IT “WHEN ISLAM HIT THE FAN” . . .
You might have seen Hillary’s tweet with the word “hateful” to describe a claim that Hussein Obama is Muslim. Also, Sanders and Christie piled on with outrage about the idea that our Jihadist-In-Chief is a worshipper of Allah the Bloodthirsty.
So, why don’t we really nail them to the wall on the preposterous idea of “correcting” to save face for Obama’s unprovable assertion of Christian beliefs, and on the unstated but clear IMPLICATIONS of their condemnations of calling his faith into question:
“GOSH, YOU MJUST BELIEVE THAT BEING A MUSLIM BAD.” + “IT IS DANGEROUS TO HAVE A MUSLIM AS PRESIDENT?” + “YOU HAVE INSULTED ALL MUSLIMS — AND PROBABLY LOST THEIR VOTE ! ! !” Then sit back and watch as candidates’ heads explode with “HOLY SHEEET, WHAT DO I DO NOW?”
Today, Saturday, and Sunday, I will be looking for NEWER coverage of this historic moment and huge favor which that guy at the Trump conveniently put in our laps. Post comments reflecting those implications unfavorable to Islam.
And if you are feeling highly mischievous and super patriotic, study up on the quotes (from the Quran, Hadith, and Sira) that brilliant expert David Wood puts in his video “Three Stages of Jihad” . . . 25 minutes, so watch when undistracted, pen and post-it notes ready.
Actually, just the first third (around 8 minutes) Stealth Jihad, is the stage American jihadist Muslims are engaged in now, so Trilogy citations from that shorter segment are probably most relevant. A TIP — DO NOT INCLUDE DAVID’S NAME OR BLOG IN YOUR REMARKS. And, if there is a template which strictly limits how extensive your comments can be, stop before you get near the Reply button.
jihad3tracker says
Here is one of several articles on the “Obama Muslim?” deluge — at the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/18/jeb-bush-responds-to-trump-obama-is-an-american-hes-a-christian/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_2_na
COMMENTS BY WASH POST READERS TEND TO BE A BIT LESS FLAMETHROWING than at human zoos like CNN and MSN, so our remarks are likely to be better understood.
But watch carefully the number of comments listed, and be aware that as the day wears on, the actual number may be far greater due to slow vetting of hundreds in the queue. In my opinion, if you see more than 200 or so already up, forget having yours read by anyone other than completely fanatic internet nerds living in their parents’ basement.
A BETTER IDEA WOULD BE TO EMAIL CANDIDATE CAMPAIGN SITES DIRECTLY, AND CALL THEM OUT ON THE “SO, BEING A MUSLIM IS BAD????” TRAP I MENTIONED ABOVE.
deMolay says
I like it
DeMolay says
Excellent !
The leftists tie themselves up in so many contradictory knots it is amusing to watch the mental wriggling to try and come up with an answer that covers all the ridiculous bases.
We hate the Pope as he doesn’t like gay marriage, but throwing them off buildings doesn’t warrant a comment.
On another note I read an article in the paper today that one UK Isis fighter in Syria is there to atone for conning his family out of all their money claiming he had stomach cancer then spending it on prostitutes. Incredible.
Ralph says
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?
jihad3tracker says
Thanks for further demolishing the GREAT CLOCK HOAX as it should be known to posterity.
What do you think the odds are that Ahmed will actually bring his thingie to Obama and our Muslim-In-Chief will examine and talk about it ?
gravenimage says
Thanks for sharing your expert background, Ralph.
daniel sebold says
Has anyone criticized the school for what they did? Was it racial profiling? Glad the kids are safe
Western Canadian says
‘racial profiling’ is a phrase like islamophobia, homophobia, climate change denier… all of which are utter drivel, and have one and only one purpose: To tell anyone who dares to question anything offered by those who use these gibberish phrases, to SHUT THE F… UP!!!
Your comment is idiotic.
Laura says
Indeed….islam is NOT a race. Therefore, objections to islam cannot be “racist”…
gravenimage says
Yes, because worrying about a bomb in school is “racist”…sarc/off
Lia Wissing says
Given that Bowe Bergdahl was also invited to the WH, young Ahmed should be careful of the company he keeps…
spot on says
Just one more hoax in the White House.
duh_swami says
The faceless soundbite news gut said…The boy was ‘targeted”, because he is a Muslim and has a Muslim name’…’targeted’…That;s the stuff lawsuits are made of, it’s also a lot of pro Mahoundian propaganda BS worthy of CAIR….
The MSM is having a Allahgasm feeding frenzy…The set up question to Trump has also excited wet dreams of the of the leftist/ liberal anti-Islamophobia crowd…Watch for the parents to sue everyone in sight…
Jay Boo says
Some commenters are being unfair.
He possibly knew no better.
After all, whenever he visited madrassas and attended Friday prayers at the mosque he likely seen clocks made like this.
Rebecca says
Wow, you are exactly right!
f c king says
The adventures of barrack hussein. He should invite Freddie’s rich mother and father the the white house next. An example of success in the hood.
bob says
bring the clock to the white house and detonate it there.
DeMolay says
If you scroll down, here’s a copy of the letter the school head sent to all the parents.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9337857/ahmed-mohamed-texas-school-district-letter
He’s moving school, so sensitive. I got the cane and all sorts at school and all I got was a clip round the earhole for being so stupid. Ahmed gets a president visit and a change of school to ensure the victim status and feeling of special privileges stay with him for the rest of his life.
DeMolay says
A Muslim that speaks for us all
https://vladdi.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/netherlands-mayor-tells-jihadis-to-fuck-off/
Bravo sir !
gravenimage says
Ahmed Aboutaleb looks pretty good at first glance–and he actually has spoken out against violent JIhad, which is a good thing.
Then things get a bit murkier–Aboutaleb is the son of an Imam (the “taleb” in his name is the same root as “Taliban”). He has maintained his Moroccan citizenship. He was not elected, but just appointed as mayor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ second largest city and largest seaport in Europe.
He has insulted staunch Anti-JIhadists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders. He has been scathing in slamming Wilders’ concerns about untrammeled Muslim immigration into the Netherlands.
He has never publicly rejected any of the tenets of Islam, and he is an actively practicing Muslim.
I would like to consider Aboutaleb a great reformer, but I think he is something rather more equivocal than that. I would consider him with caution.
voegelinian says
Any Muslim who does not condemn Muhammad, the Koran and the Hadiths and yet affects to condemn “Islamist extremism” (like Maajid Nawaz, for example), must be considered a Good Cop (or worse, a “Better Cop”), doing stealth jihad. The Good Cop ploy only works when there are gullible Westerners thinking he might be genuine. (The “Better Cop” has become necessary because more and more people are becoming more Islamo-literate, and hence, warier — but not wary enough, apparently…)
Jay Boo says
Ahmed Aboutaleb and non-Muslim Chris Christie will defend us against the “extremists” while gladly giving away all the keys to our house to the so-called moderates.
Cindy says
This makes me so sick I can hardly stand it. I’m sick of hearing how bad the muslims have it !!!! Well, what about all those locked in prisons all over the middle east because they don’t believe what the muslims believe. And now they are trying to bring it America, i For one say NO, not only no but HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have freedom of speech and we better start fighting to keep it or we are in trouble. Trouble like we have never known before. It has come to us now what are we going to do???? Fight for what is rightfully ours or give up??????? I hope there are enough true Americans left to save our country. God be with us.
Hal says
This was not an invention, nor did this junior jihadist design the circuitry. He took apart a commercial product, and repackaged it into an aluminum briefcase. Thats not an invention, its not anything really. In fact its quite unsafe, with 120 volts of AC power exposed via various connections. It looked more like a bomb than did many of the theatrical bombs used in motion pictures. Now, if this kid was so smart, he would have known that bringing such a device to school would get him in trouble. And if his father was so smart he would have known that his son would have gotten in big trouble, and would have stopped him from taking it to school. So then, either the kid and his dad are real dummies and did not know about terrorism, and heightened security posture, or they were smart like foxes. You see the foxes had planned this to stir up the infidels, or perhaps to test the security awareness of the school. I am pleased that the kid was caught. But not pleased that Obama, MIT, and other supposedly intelligent institutions have reached out to this Genius Jihadist. The reactions of Obama and MIT show that even the so called intelligent brainiacs lack common sense and are missing large areas of the brain that can filter our Bullshit from reality.