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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Barack Obama’s Half-Clocked Tale of Islamophobia

Sep 16, 2015 7:15 pm By Robert Spencer

In PJ Media today I discuss how, as usual, Obama has assumed that Americans are bigots before the contrary facts were in about Ahmed Mohamed’s suspicious-looking device and uncooperative behavior.

Ahmed Mohamed clock

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, had a mind for gadgetry and a great idea: he would build his own working clock and take it to school on Monday to show an engineering teacher. “It was the first time,” he said, “I brought an invention to school to show a teacher.” But everything went terribly, terribly wrong: Islamophobic teachers took his innocuous clock for a bomb and went so far as to have him arrested. All is well now, however, as the civil rights group CAIR and Barack Obama have stepped in, Ahmed’s persecutors have egg on their racist faces, and Ahmed has been invited to the White House.

That’s the narrative that was everywhere Wednesday (Vox’s headline was typical of the spin: “Muslim ninth grader arrested for bringing an electronics project to school”), but as with so many such stories, it is full of holes.

His clock, a busy gadget of circuits and wires without either a conventional clock face or a digital display, looked more like a bomb than like a clock. Irving police said that Ahmed carried his homemade clock to school in a briefcase; once there, he plugged it in during English class, and it began making noise.

If he took it in to school to show it to an engineering teacher, why did he plug it in during English class? What kind of clock makes noise, other than ticking?

texas-muslim-student-clock

(Pictured: Mohamed’s not-at-all suspicious, appropriate-for-English-class device)

The principal, the school resource officer, and police questioned him, according to WFAA:

[O]fficers 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 remarked:

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 this reticence? Why didn’t Ahmed tell McLellan what he so readily told the international media: that he loved building things and had brought the clock to school to show to an engineering teacher?

In any case, he didn’t. After he was arrested (and released without charge), the Islamic victimhood machine kicked into high gear. Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, lamented:

He just wants to invent good things for mankind. But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.

Alia Salem, executive director of the North Texas chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, declared:

This all raises a red flag for us: how Irving’s government entities are operating in the current climate.

Barack Obama himself got into the act, tweeting to Ahmed:

Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.

Clearly Ahmed Mohamed is the victim of the hour, and the mainstream media will be celebrating him, and lamenting the alleged plight of Muslims in America, for a considerable time to come.

But what, really, did MacArthur High School officials and the Irving Police do wrong?

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.

Check the record. The alert has been universal. It doesn’t just single out Muslim students.

The key question here is whether Ahmed Mohamed would have been arrested if he had been a non-Muslim student and had brought the same contraption to school. Without any doubt, yes, he would have been.

However, CAIR and Obama are both avid to reinforce the narrative that Muslims are innocent victims of unjust suspicion. CAIR wants and needs “hate crimes” against Muslims, because they are the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims….

Read the rest here.

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  1. Jack says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 7:45 pm

    Why? The little jerk did it for the attention he knew he would get, no doubt with the help of his parents, now they will have a lawsuit and no doubt they’ll win it. I wonder if any of the non-Muslim students have won any lawsuits or if they even filed any, such as the kid who made the shape of a gun from a slice of pizza he was eating.

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 8:06 pm

      Jack, Ahmed’s parents probably felt the need to start setting aside some money for Ahmed’s college fund . . . a lawsuit will go a long way in acquiring significant financial support for Ahmed’s continued education. Remember his name . . . in just a few years, you will hear it again in headlines that read, “Muslim Inventor Awarded Nobel Prize for Discovering Fire for the Second Time.”

      • Shane says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 10:29 am

        Maybe this was a test run. The next time he will bring in a real bomb.

    • Lia Wissing says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 5:01 am

      On the other hand, Mr Obama invited Bowe to the WH as well. Poor Ahmed doesn’t seem to be in company that bodes well for him.

    • old white guy says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 9:42 am

      I would venture it was a trial balloon.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    Why weren’t Spencer and Geller invited to the White House after they stood up for freedom of speech and risked their lives to do it down in Texas? Them and the brave man who stopped the Islamic supremacists on cold-blooded jihad? All this punk did was try to deliberately stir up trouble without any noble cause behind it — and now he’s being rewarded for it because of his religion? What about all the other kids across America who also disrupt classes and cause chaos with their pranks and practical jokes? Don’t they get to go to the White House to be celebrated, too? This is the insanity of the Obama regime era.

    • Huck Folder says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 10:05 pm

      And if obuMBoy had a son…

      …he would be called mohammed.

  3. Jay E Barney says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 7:54 pm

    Maybe some Muslim kid from the North Caucasus could take a prototype pressure cooker to a high school in Boston.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 10:09 am

      Sounds like a plan, Jay…

  4. Roger Gangitano says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    Bombs have clocks, too. This Muslim kid should have been more forthcoming with his answers to the school and police when questioned. But, if a school can suspend a child for chewing a pop-tart into a questionable shape, a questionable electronic device should certainly be handled with MORE concern. After all, no pop-tart has yet ever been used to kill anyone – unidentifiable electronic devices have! Screw the kid, his father, CAIR, Obama and all the other Islamists who think the WH would let the device past WH security if he just showed up with it there.

    • somehistory says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 9:14 pm

      Thought about the pop tart incident also. And all of the little kids who drew…crayons on paper are so very dangerous.

      This smart alek who refused to give the police the information they sought was doing it on purpose. These muslims are in close contact with cair…cair looks for things they can sue over and things which make muslims look like poor innocent victims of prejudice even when no law suit is possible or likely.

      it is all part of their plan to take over, to ruin society, to stop freedom of speech and to make teachers, law enforcement, government officials and average citizens afraid to speak up when they know the culprit or suspect is muslim.

      He’s a brat. His explanation was that he didn’t “think” it looked like a bomb. He knew what it was and the reasons…the real reasons he didn’t want to admit…he gave the media for having taken it to school. He plugged it in while in class. He knew it would beep and alarm the teacher. That was his goal, added to the fact that now he will be *above suspicion* where this school and police department are concerned, even if they believe otherwise. They will hesitate to do anything if he makes trouble again and that hesitation just may get someone killed.

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 9:56 am

        He is going through the Awkward Muslim Teenage Years

        He is too young to grow a shaggy toilet brush Muslim beard and afraid that he would be mistaken for Caitlin Jenner if he wore an Islamic man-dress to school without such a beard. He is frustrated that his non-Muslim fellow students never get to see him display his prayers and carpet kissing skills.

      • EYESOPEN says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 10:31 pm

        Exactly. There are many paths to “jihad”.

  5. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    ROBERT SUPERBLY COVERS THE USUAL LYING HYSTERIA ABOUT THIS BUT LET ME ADD A NICKEL’S WORTH OF ANALYSIS.

    What is the definition of a clock ?

    1. A clock “tells time”.
    2. It does that by using one or more of several methods:
    A. Numeral dial and hands
    B. Electronic digital display
    C. Pre-recorded voice announcements
    D. Chimes, bells, noises in appropriate QUANTITY

    From the several articles I’ve read, the device in question emitted a single “beep” which was heard by a teacher, who, upon seeing the contents of Ahmed’s valise (or whatever it was) then told him not to show it to anyone.

    Later, the device made another electronic sound, which then led to LEA intervention. So Ahmed made an ELECTRONIC INTERVAL MEASURER that did not “tell time”. Those are essential parts of bombs, to initiate pre-chosen moments for detonation.

    * * * * Uber-Leftist billionaires like Facebook CEO Zuckerberg jump in to demonstrate his idiocy, but Good Bye if he declares Hebraic faith or heritage on any Muslim Middle East street corner. As Pam Geller has written extensively, self-hating Jews abound . . .

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 10:12 am

      I agree–this doesn’t sound like a clock in the sense we usually use the term.

      It might make a nifty *timer*, though. Gee–what could a Muslim put in a metal suitcase that would use a timer?

      • EYESOPEN says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 10:33 pm

        Ah, but that would make you a “greasy Islamophobe” Graven! {;o)

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 11:22 pm

          “Guilty” as charged, EYESOPEN.

  6. Eddiethed says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Obama would never do this if he was a white boy,just because the kid was a shit starting Moslem like Obama the kid was invited to the whitehouse,Moslems don’t belong in America or anywhere in the west,Islam is a false religion an there prophet is a pedophile,they value death like we value life,they hate us so much but they will not immigrate to another Moslem country because America an Europe have a lot of free shit,Moslems do not come to the west to work they come here to take over our country’s,in the not so far future we are gonna have to fight for our freedoms an it’s gonna be Islam we are gonna have to fight,the only good Moslem is a dead Moslem!!

  7. Westman says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    The strange thing about all the hysteria about this clock is that almost every one of the students is carrying a cell phone which would be far more reliable as a remote trigger device or a timer.

    I respectfully suggest that all cell phones be checked into the office each school day.

    This is in the spirit of Edward Teller who once remarked, “In sleeping with a woman, one gets slightly less radioactivity than from a nuclear reactor; but to sleep with two woman is very, very dangerous.”

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 10:03 pm

      Hello Westman —

      Do you know the tragic facts regarding why the marriage of eminent cosmologist & ego maniac Carl Sagan and his ultra-hot wife finally ended ? They had a fundamental disagreement about the Big Bang.

      Teller’s favorite movie joke was when a wealthy widow asked Groucho Marx (as they were about to embark on a cruise) “Otis, do you have everything?” His reply: “I’ve never had any complaints.”

      • Westman says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 12:18 am

        Thanks, jihad3,

        Here’s a limerick from Richard Feynman:

        “Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.”

        • jihad3tracker says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 10:08 am

          About 30 years ago I watched a program about Feynman “in action” — at a post-grad seminar. Without knowing who he was, I’d have thought “This guy is obviously a New York cab driver who somehow commandeered the lecture hall.”

        • Westman says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 3:21 pm

          Feynman was an example of not mistaking the book cover for an indication of the contents.

          That certainly applies to the Quran. Then there are Western leaders, silver-tongued orators with nothing behind the veneer, informed by an army of taxpayer-funded opinion-compliant minions, whose primary objective is remaining in the eye of, and the wallet of, the public.

  8. Always On Watch says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    The science teacher advised Ahmed not to show this device around the school.

    Why that advice?

    Because it looks like a suitcase bomb of some sort — especially to an English teacher. I should know! I am an English teacher!

    Teachers are advised, “If you see something, say something.”

    Now, let’s see what happens to the teacher(s) who showed concern about this device.

    And one more thing….Does Ahmed have an axe to grind with the English teacher?

    • Angemon says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 9:18 pm

      Always On Watch posted:

      “And one more thing….Does Ahmed have an axe to grind with the English teacher?”

      A very good question.

      • Always On Watch says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 9:48 pm

        It is my understanding that the beep sounded during 6th period, toward the end of the day. In English class.

        Why didn’t that beep sound earlier? Was the device in his locker for a time? If so, why did he take it out to bring to English class.

        I also notice an ac cord on the device.

        Unless the device also has some sort of alternate battery power, the only ways that the beep would wound are (1) the device was plugged into a power supply or an outlet or (2) the device was disconnected from a power supply and then beeped — much like some microwaves and FIOS packs will beep when the power goes off due to an electrical outage.

        • Angemon says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 10:09 pm

          There’s a 9V battery connector on the left side.

        • Always On Watch says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 10:43 pm

          He set a timer, maybe?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 10:17 am

      Always on Watch wrote:

      Now, let’s see what happens to the teacher(s) who showed concern about this device.
      ……………………

      Exactly so. Even if they are not “disciplined” in some way, they will be branded as “islamophobes”. A news program I listened to yesterday said the teacher had “failed their students”.

      What will happen the next time something suspicious appears? The teachers *might* say something–or they might remember how their colleagues were smeared and shamed here, and just let the incident go–no matter how much it endangers them and their kids.

      This is, in fact, the whole goal of this appalling exercise from CAIR.

      • EYESOPEN says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 10:36 pm

        Exactly. Wouldn’t it be ironic if what the little punk brought to the WH was something more than just a “clock”?

  9. Nate Krummholtz says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    “His clock, a busy gadget of circuits and wires without either a conventional clock face or a digital display, looked more like a bomb than like a clock.”

    In fact, it has a digital display. It’s the red box at the top, which has four 8-segment displays. It’s just not illuminated.

    • Pere LaChaise says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 8:54 am

      Thanks, Nate for allowing some fresh air into the overheated confines of this klatsch. OF course, anything CAIR says is takfir and cannot be taken at face value. Their presence always muddles issues and bends outcomes to favor their Islamist cause. But TX school authorities and the cops they continually call on, also have very bad attitudes. I think in this case we have a sandwich of southron urge to dominate dark people, their urge to dominate students and then their fear of 14 yr olds, plus terrorism fears triggered by names like Ahmed Mohammed. They would have done the same stupid and wussy things to a white or black kid, I am sure. But their panic might have been less acute if the kid looked like Dylan Roof.
      TX and FL have continually been in the news for similar incidents of overt authoritarianism over students, usually of color. The particulars of this one are more maddening than many because the imputation of threat is so far-fetched. Obviously, the school and police authorities had a strong desire to determine the clock as a weapon, because they see all independent thought as a threat to their authority which must be put down in a very public way demonstrating the futility of ‘rebellion against authority’. The boy may have been cheeky but the unofficial report of his behavior as passive-aggressive is completely unreliable, coming from cops who routinely use violence in counter-productive ways. I see no mention of a trip to the Principal’s office – sounds like the dumb English teechur called the cops first and then they gave Ahmed the 3rd degree – like they wanted a confession, not an explanation of a non-threat.
      Police these days show all the thuggish behavior of enforcers of an unpopular oligarchic overlordship, not protectors and servitors of public order. In daily cases, they create chaos and sow death among the poor, and especially black people.

      It’s a pity that this case will go into CAIR’s folio assembled to prove America’s ‘islamophobia’ when it’s really a case of simple authoritarianism.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 10:22 am

        Pere LaChaise wrote:

        I think in this case we have a sandwich of southron urge to dominate dark people…
        …………………….

        Yeah–because fear of suitcase bombs is always “racist”…sarc/off

  10. Peggy says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    He was just paving the way for a real bomb to be brought in.
    Now that the school has cried wolf the will be less inclided to do it again so a real explosive can be brought in and nobody will have the guts to question it.

    • Always On Watch says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 9:07 pm

      Peggy,

      I think so, too.

      • Peggy says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 9:57 pm

        He’s old enough to know better so instead of getting an audience with Obama he should have been punished.

  11. No Fear says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    Is the 4 character digital display in the photo (a reddish colour) not actually working?

    • Westman says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 9:44 pm

      With the power plug lying on the table, it would be a miracle if it lit up. Even “Allah” hasn’t ever done that miracle.

  12. Always On Watch says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 10:02 pm

    Is this kid now going to get a scholarship to MIT?

    I saw rumors of that somewhere a few minutes ago.

    Question: Is this kid so brilliant that he’s in one of the science-and-tech magnet schools?

  13. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    Keyword “uncooperative” – source: the unholy ko’ ran.

  14. Kasey says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    Appeasement gone mad? It doesn’t look like a clock-no dial or digital display yet it’s called a clock. The kid has to be kidding? Let’s hope technicians get to see the item unmolested to check just what it is. Just a scare-crow? Maybe he wanted further advice on the technicalities of it for other purposes? Who knows?Just playing the victim role now. If Islamists weren’t doing so much violence around the World, maybe no fuss would have been made. The situation needs viewing from both perspectives.

  15. Cicero says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 11:24 pm

    (1) Electronic clock sets virtually identical to this one have been around for decades. Assembly requires minimum skill, basically connecting a power supply and one or two switches.

    (2) What is wrong with the entire picture is that Ahmed Mohammed went out of his way mount this pre-bought device into a travel-type case rather than the type of case that is typically used for electronic devices.

    (3) The gratuitous use of the travel case, Ahmed Mohammed’s carefully planned actions in scaring an ignorant English teacher (after being specifically warned not to draw attention) and the immediate appearance of be-hijabed CAIR witches shows beyond a peradventure of a doubt that the entire spectacle was carefully concocted with active involvement by CAIR officers.

    LEGAL NOTE: Helping a client plan a FUTURE crime is NOT protected by attorney-client privilege.

    (4) It is ridiculous to claim that Ahmed Mohammed is an “inventor.” He put together a pre-assembled electronic kit as millions of American boys have done before him. Only a wholly un-American person like Barry 0-bama could possibly play along with this ridiculous charade of Ahmed as a Muslim “inventor.”

    (5) America has real inventors even at this age, but they don’t spend their time concocting victim spectacles, and for that reason do not get invited to a White House where “science” is just a branch of propaganda. Real teenage inventors are not invited to 0-bama’s White House because their presence wouldn’t advance the totalitarian “narrative.”

    • More Ham Ed says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 3:27 am

      I know a good post when I see one, thanks!

  16. Dave J says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 11:49 pm

    So he put together a pre-engineered timer circuit (not a “clock”), fitted it into a briefcase and started it beeping during English class?

    There s a lot about this that smells of coaching and trolling for a lawsuit.

    But instead he is a hero and “inventor” with Presidential praise?

    Whatever happened to critical thinking? I guess it went out of fashion with liberal self inflicted victimhood..

    • JWT85 says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 10:15 am

      Pencil case. It was inside a pencil case.

  17. Wellington says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 12:59 am

    Tonight I received a communication from the White House asking me to “stand with Ahmed.” What I wrote back left it unambiguously clear that I would not stand with the little shit and, to boot, that I considered Islam spiritual fascism.

    I did receive a reply but only to convey to me that because of the volume of messages to the White House my communication could not be processed. Damn. I was hoping it would be put on Obama’s desk in the morning. Maybe next time.

  18. LSWCHP says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 1:49 am

    I’m an embedded systems engineer so I know a little about this stuff.

    Any teenage kid could go to an electronics hobby shop, buy this stuff and follow the instructions to put it together without the slightest trace of inventiveness.

    And the suitcase mount is hugely suspicious. Any teacher who didn’t raise the alarm about this would be derelict in their duty.

    This is definiyely a giant scam. I’d be interested to examine his prior history of technical achievements and inventions. If there are any!

    • Jon Sobieski says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 9:07 am

      His father from Sudan, ran for Sudan president a few years back. Bitched about islamophobia incident. Very active in the Muslim community. Smell a rat yet?

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 12:19 pm

        Ahmed Mohamed’s father was the “defense attorney” for the Qur’an when Pastor Terry Jones put that vile book “on trial”. Mohamed considers himself “proficient in all the religious sciences” and was supposedly shocked when the Qur’an was found guilty of crimes against humanity.

        Clearly, he is already used to political theater, and this incident is more of the same.

        http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9339063/ahmed-mohamed-elhassan

        The above article is still useful for what it has to say, but not for its ludicrous tone of victim-mongering Muslim apologia.

  19. first one in 1400 years says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 6:02 am

    “He just wants to invent good things for mankind.”, said little Ahmed’s father…if that was the case, he would be the first muslim in 1400 years to invent something of use or something good. Good luck with that invention task son, usually muslims are too concerned with killing and jihad to get around to inventing things.

  20. Always On Watch says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 6:40 am

    Can anyone here confirm or debunk this comment, which I found elsewhere on the web?

    The school day just prior to Ahmed’s stunt was Friday, September 11, when a nearby high school in Plano was the subject of a publicized and frightening bomb scare. Ahmed had to have known that his clock would look suspicious.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 12:26 pm

      It is true, Always on Watch:

      “Bomb Scare Alarms a Plano High School on Sept. 11”

      http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Weapon-Threat-Locks-Down-Planos-Clark-High-School-326729991.html

      This was a big story in Texas over the weekend. Most people would have realized that the schools would be more on the alert than ever for suspicious devices.

  21. Max Publius says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 7:04 am

    This is an obvious setup, just like the scams involving muslims on planes acting passive aggressive and then claiming to be victims. The “clock” is intentionally made to look like a bomb. This rotten kid was a tool for an adult Muslim scam involving lawsuits, jihad and Islamic-supremacists bigots.

    • Dave J says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 11:53 am

      Exactly. And all the crybabies are ignoring the fact that ANY student doing the same thing would be arrested. The whole stunt stinks of trolling for victimhood so they can whine about “Islamophobia”.

  22. Laura says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 7:06 am

    Hey, what’s the problem…kids like this have made America great!

  23. KrazyKafir says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 8:23 am

    I couldn’t help notice how the muslim child used the term “his invention” instead of his creation. I guess old habits die hard.

  24. Jay Boo says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 8:35 am

    Duplicity is Islam’s name.

    The Koran begins most chapters with a good intention cover story sound bite — “Allah the compassionate the merciful.”

  25. patsw says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 8:41 am

    This was a dry run to gauge the reaction of the school, law enforcement, and the media

    – like Muslims praying loudly (or thin people demanding seat belt extensions) on flights or otherwise act with the intent to provoke a suspicion of terroristic threat. They are gathering intelligence data as well as playing the islamophobia card.

    I personally witnessed a group with a large beat-up suitcase drop it off on the subway platform next to a bench. Rather than running away they calmly moved from the uptown to the downtown platform to watch when and how the police would respond. I called 911 and described the men who were now watching the scene.

  26. Stephanie says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 8:51 am

    The kid even said he secured the case with a cord instead of a lock so it wouldnt be thought a “threat” and would look less “suspicious”. His own words! So, cmon now, he knew it could easily be mistaken for a bomb from the get go. His engineering teacher also recognized this and told him to not show it to other teachers….so what does he do? Sets the alarm to go off in English class. English. Not science or math where a teacher may know it’s not a bomb, but English.

    Furthermore, what if it was a white non-Muslim kid and the case had a confederate flag sticker on it? He’d still be sitting in jail and charged with a bomb hoax! Guaranteed!

  27. brenrod says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 9:14 am

    2 children in gaza on tv said they want to be engineers so they can blow up jews. Thei MSM PC media fest around achmed ignores that the honor killer cults children are used as martyrs and shields globally, that the honor killers are still blowing up the world daily…. looks like the MSM and hussein O want to lull americans into a false sense of security by pretending that the honor killers are not the problem so lets bring in a few hundred thousand more.

  28. revereridesagain says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 9:18 am

    THIS IS OBSCENE:

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mit-to-ahmed-mohamed-you-are-the-kind-of-student-we-want/ar-AAep6MJ

    An MIT police officer, Sean Coillier, was murdered in cold blood by the pressure-cooker Muslim bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, as he sat in his cruiser. Maybe MIT would also like to dismantle his memorial as a goodwill gesture to any “offended” Muslims.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 12:32 pm

      Thanks for pointing out that repulsive detail, revereridesagain. I guess the Tsarnaev brothers were the kind of students MIT would have wanted, as well…

    • quotha raven says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 3:08 am

      to revereridesagain and gravenimage. “repulsive” and “obscene” only approach how appalling is the support shown by highest academic and scientific communities reported in the link you provide. Not the least aspect of which is that these people from MIT and sundry LEAPT to embrace this nasty 14 yr old before they knew anything, really, about the incident other than the CAIR and PCMC media manipulation of facts and context. And these are supposedly “thinking people” – presumed our “best and brightest”??
      I despair for the future of the western world and in specific the dear old USA. Cheers! Quotha

  29. DhimmiNot says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 9:35 am

    This “invention” is not an invention.
    The boy has merely purchased an electronic kit and assembled it. There is NO invention here.
    In fact, there is no need to even understand how it works. Just follow the assembly instructions.

    • Paul Becker says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 12:54 pm

      He didn’t even do that. That is an off-the-shelf clock, I’d lay money on it.

  30. Dawn Perlmutter says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Will the Secret Service check his suitcase ‘clock’ when he visits the White House or will they be labeled Islamophobic? It would be a media nightmare if Obama’s security was photographed inspecting the ‘clock’. Quite the dilemma – Obama could be accused of profiling in the same manner as the teacher and the Irving PD. What a brilliant strategy to have a bomb walked right into the White House. It would be assassination by political correctness.

    • Georg says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 5:15 pm

      There will be no photos of the $165,000 in man-hours spent ensuring it’s not a weapon.

    • fido says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 7:23 pm

      Dawn, you’re absolutely correct! We are living in a very dangerous Twilight Zone episode where, as with Europe, our own pervasive “pc’ism” threatens to destroy us. How insane!!!!!!!!

      But trust me, obummer has been running interference for the muslims for nearly 7 yrs…he is their ace-in-the-hole in America and around the word. I believe he’s a muslim at his core and has worked carefully to obfuscate the truth even to the point of ordering drone strikes to sacrifice a few muslim lives (hey, what’s a few muslim lives to a dedicated muslim anyway) to provide himself cover. A devious devil in the service of allah (satan)?

      • R Smith says

        Sep 18, 2015 at 1:47 am

        Agreed!

    • Justme77 says

      Sep 19, 2015 at 10:33 am

      We’re supposed to just shut up and let the muslims bomb us by being polite and letting them do it. Why deprive them of their right to do Allah’s will? /sarcasm.

  31. Barb R says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:17 am

    President Obama, if you think it’s such a “cool” clock, please tell us what time it says.

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 2:14 pm

      Anyone with any sense at all should know…..If you can build a. (CLOCK. ??) You can build a bomb and of course any device like this should be checked out even if the builder’s name is muhammad or John. TAKE NO CHANCE !!!!!

  32. Nabeel says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:22 am

    Of course the secret service is gonna check the clock if he takes it- they check EVERYTHING regardless of what it is. They’ll check your phone, any ipad, any backpack, any suitcase. The BIG difference is- that they won’t arrest you once they realize it’s not a threat. Very big difference which is shocking that so many people fail to grasp

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 11:18 pm

      More victim-mongering…

    • David says

      Sep 27, 2015 at 6:24 pm

      Useless comment Nabeel..

  33. Paul Becker says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:24 am

    I’ve been in electronic product design for over 25 years, and when I looked at that photo of the actual clock above, it is immediately clear to me that he didn’t even build the clock. It is a commercial clock design that has been disassembled and put into a small suitcase. Much of the media is saying “invented”, and he himself says he “was trying to make a clock”.

    To make a clock:
    1. Obtain a clock.

    There’s more to this story, I guarantee it.

    • Georg says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 5:26 pm

      TY for sharing your expertise. But I’m sure most news anchors, obviously vastly more knowledgeable about the minutiae of electronic product designs, will take exception.

    • Cartimandua says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 11:21 pm

      Agreed, it is a test to see how easy it would be to make it a bomb and set it off next to American schoolchildren. That was no clock. I have clocks spanking 3 centuries, been done and invented. How many people want to carry a clock in a suitcase. We have WRIST WATCHES. One smart teacher caught it, so I don’t think despite CAIR, this will be used soon. How I hate and loathe the enemies in our midst.

    • Berzrkr50 says

      Sep 20, 2015 at 1:58 pm

      You mean like more “clocks” being brought to school?

  34. Newfie Templar says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Just curious, did those two brave Marines who stopped that jihadi assassin from murdering everyone on that French train get invites to the White House?

    Grand Mufti Obama strikes again. When Ocnod comes to the White House, along with his clock, he will probably be bringing equipment to check for security holes as well and no one will dare ask this time what the young al-Edison bin Newton is carrying.

  35. Plutarchus7 says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    OUR ISLAM DEFENDER IN CHIEF:

    “If I had a Moslem son he’d look like Ahmed the clock maker.”

    Kidding aside. How can we be sure that this wasn’t a dry run for a terror bomb?

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

    • Plutarchus7 says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 5:52 pm

      CORRECTION: DEFENDER OF ISLAM IS CHIEF

      • Plutarchus7 says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 5:55 pm

        If at first you don’t succeed……… DEFENDER OF ISLAM IN CHIEF

  36. Sam says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    One word for Obama: DISGUSTING. To reporters of this incident: You are more disgusting for not doing an objective job.

  37. DIANNA says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Did anyone notice the shirt with the plane on it, he was wearing? Blitzkrieg In English. The clock inside of a case really? I bet if he took it to an airport they would have the same reaction.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 10:29 pm

      Yep.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 11:20 pm

      I missed that detail. Thanks for the head’s up.

  38. StoryBrit says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    My question is simple. What if it HAD been a bomb? He’s killed a load of people, what would the questions be then?

  39. Hilarious says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 8:54 pm

    “Why this reticence? Why didn’t Ahmed tell McLellan what he so readily told the international media: that he loved building things and had brought the clock to school to show to an engineering teacher?”

    Maybe because when you are a 14 year old boy taken out of class and put in a room with police officers you tend to not speak very coherently. Especially when the officers repeatedly make statements about your name or how they expected to see someone like Ahmed. The situation might have been a tad bit intimidating.

    I am sorry that all of us were not ball-busting, chest hair manly men like you Mr. Spencer, when we 14 years old.

    • Angemon says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 8:42 am

      Hilarious posted:

      “Maybe because when you are a 14 year old boy taken out of class and put in a room with police officers you tend to not speak very coherently.”

      Or maybe because his family taught him since birth that the police are his enemies:

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cair-donttalktofbi.jpg

  40. Mitch says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    I would like to know more about this family – what mosque do they attend, does his mother wear a mask, etc. Isn’t it possible that the kid deliberately terrorized the school in order to create an “islamophobia grievance”?

    The quote by his father MIGHT be sincere,

    “He just wants to invent good things for mankind. But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11…”

    but the whole thing smells a bit like those flying imams.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 11:21 pm

      No, he’s not sincere. His father is the “defense attorney” for the Qur’an when Pastor Terry Jones put that vile book “on trial”.

      • Mitch says

        Sep 18, 2015 at 6:44 am

        Thanks, Graven. I hadn’t yet seen the fawning media coverage, and the kid’s on-camera admission that he knows exactly what he’s doing:

        “I’ve seen Mark Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and I am pleased that they are part of the action, the movement, to get rid of everything that has been happening, not just to me, but to other people around the entire globe.”

        Brat-jihadists running circles around the dhim-media.

        • underbed cat says

          Sep 18, 2015 at 10:07 am

          Media, media,media the jihadist use it so well…..I think this event really exposes the surrounding characters Ob and his Cair group…..repeating endlessly their victim status to get the emotions of the public to hate us “racist” infidels….if that didn’t work they could not work.

  41. EYESOPEN says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    “However, CAIR and Obama are both avid to reinforce the narrative that Muslims are innocent victims of unjust suspicion. CAIR wants and needs “hate crimes” against Muslims, because they are the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims….”

    That about says it all right there Robert.

  42. Cartimandua says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:27 pm

    This so called clock is another dry run. Like the Minneapolis imams. I have always admired the actor James Woods who tried to warn of a dry run right before 9/11 and he was ignored. I can only imagine his own personal hell. Knowing that he was right and despite his warnings almost 4000 people died. From every corner of the earth.

  43. CCTVStar says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 5:25 am

    The age of professional Muslim victim hood. Don’t underestimate him. I know people in college that had sex changes so that they could qualify for scholarships and meet diversity quotas at major companies – that they otherwise couldn’t get into. There are a lot of ambitious and clever young people out there, and if they aren’t, the parents certainly are. I’m sure this event will serve as a wonderful addition to his academic package for MIT.

  44. Mike says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    You would have to be a severely uneducated person to think that device is anything other than a clock.

    The cowardice and ignorance that is modern America is the reason we are heading for our doom.

    • quotha raven says

      Sep 18, 2015 at 10:21 pm

      to Mike, who sez “You would have to be a severely uneducated person to think that device is anything other than a clock.”

      Are you kidding me, Mike? Did you observe the pictures of that “clock” and a suitcase bomb next to it?

      I would NEVER at first glance recognize that rotten kid’s “invention” as a clock. I’ve been around the block once or twice, and I am not “severely uneducated”, so I’m wondering who the heck you are and why you wrote that offensive and ill-conceived comment. Cheers! Quotha R

    • Angemon says

      Sep 19, 2015 at 10:26 am

      Mike posted:

      “You would have to be a severely uneducated person to think that device is anything other than a clock.”

      No, not really. There’s a difference between not knowing about electronics and being “severely uneducated”.

  45. yohanan says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    Civil violence and terror is no big deal for the president. Obama went to grade school in Jakarta, Indonesia. He moved there in Oct 1967, not long after the Indonesian killings of 1965–1966 in which more than 500,000 people were killed.

  46. don vito says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    I can’t tell from news reports, was young muhamid doings part of a class assignment? Or was it a religious exercise? Was his quest part of a damnable project to make schools clock-free? Or to show kufrs how lowly kufrs are? If muhamid is indeed an inventor, then he is imitating kufr lifestyle, wouldn’t that make him an apostate or hypocrite? Finally, does muhamid love death more than Coca Cola? P. S. don, if muhamid was doing all the above he is a martyr in training.

  47. albert says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    Hey Mohammed, I know you muslims are behind the times but no-one told you clocks already been invented, long time ago.

  48. Gerald says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    A kid with in elementary school was suspended for two days because he chewed into a pastry and made it look like a mock gun.
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/02/7-year-old-boy-reportedly-suspended-after-making-a-gun-out-of-a-pastry-at-school/

  49. Cartimandua says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 8:35 pm

    Well obviously the kid who chewed the pastry into a gun deserved his suspension, I wonder if he was white. Whereas this Muslim genius who after several centuries, probably wearing a watch, invented a clock in a suitcase that ticked, well, he is headed to the White House. Does anyone see madness here? Insanity? Triumphalsim?

  50. Jerry says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    All poor Ahmed needs now co complete his project is some C4 so that he could best strike a serious blow against Islamophobia.

    Next he might even figure out how to fit his clock inside a pressure cooker.

    What won’t a young gifted Muslim not do in the pursuit of the Islamic notion of Peace.

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