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Texas: Muslim student arrested for bringing clock that looked like bomb to school; Obama invites him to White House

Sep 16, 2015 1:53 pm By Robert Spencer

School officials thought the clock looked like a bomb. It certainly looks more like a bomb than it does like a clock:

Ahmed Mohamed's clock

All over the country, school officials are on constant high alert for weapons — a high alert that has more than once lapsed over into outright hysteria, with students being suspended for drawing guns, pointing fingers at people and saying “Bang,” etc. But the alert is universal: it doesn’t just single out Muslim students. The key question here is, would Ahmed Mohamed have been arrested if he had been a non-Muslim student and had brought the same contraption to school? And the answer is without any doubt yes, he would have been.

However, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Barack Obama, both avid to reinforce the narrative that Muslims are innocent victims of unjust suspicion, are all over this, and Ahmed has been invited to the White House. The upshot of this ridiculous brouhaha will be that Muslim students will now be exempted from scrutiny for bringing suspicious objects to school: to subject them to such scrutiny would be “Islamophobic.” Will some enterprising young jihadi take advantage of this favorable new situation?

“No charges for Muslim boy arrested after homemade clock mistaken for bomb in Texas school,” Chicago Tribune, September 16, 2015:

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, an Irving MacArthur High student who invents as a hobby, talks about being detained and interrogated after bringing a homemade clock to school Monday that was mistaken for a hoax bomb.

Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.

Irving police Chief Larry Boyd said during a news conference Wednesday that Ahmed Mohamed will not be charged with possessing a hoax bomb because there’s no evidence that he meant to cause any harm.

Boyd says the clock that Ahmed built looked “suspicious in nature.”

Ahmed’s family says high school administrators in the Dallas suburb of Irving on Monday suspended the teenager for three days after he showed the clock to teachers.

School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver says officials were concerned with student safety and not the boy’s Muslim faith.

The boy makes his own radios, repairs his own go-kart and on Sunday spent about 20 minutes before bedtime assembling a clock using a circuit board, power supply wired to a digital display and other items, The Dallas Morning News reported.

On Monday, Ahmed showed the clock to his engineering teacher and then another teacher after the clock, which was in his backpack, beeped during class. That teacher told him that it looked like a bomb, the newspaper reported.

Obama cool clock

Ahmed was later pulled from class and brought before the principal and Irving police officers for questioning.

The school district said in a statement that Ahmed was detained by police. Irving police spokesman James McLellan told the Morning News that police are determining whether to file a charge of making a hoax bomb.

“He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, told the newspaper. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”

The [Hamas-linked] Council on American-Islamic Relations is reviewing the matter.

“This all raises a red flag for us: how Irving’s government entities are operating in the current climate,” said Alia Salem, executive director of the council’s North Texas chapter….

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  1. Ed says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    Ahmed and CAIR setting us up for the next wave of clocks with a
    explosive charge going off in public places.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 4:27 pm

      * * * * * HERE IS A CONTACT PATH TO THE DALLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICE * * * * *

      http://www.dallasisd.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=6670

      SEND THEM AN EMAIL OF SUPPORT — BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING HIT HARD BY THE ISLAMOPHOBIA BASTARD AT CAIR.

      Remember a 255 character limit on this kind of communication template. And make your subject line clear : “PRUDENT ACTION WITH THE CLOCK DEVICE WAS RIGHT” or something similarly short.

      There is also a phone number available at the website. Both basic information and enrolled student lines, I guess. The advantage of an EMAIL, however, is permanence — they can be shown to others in the county administration when this gets really ugly.

      • somehistory says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 4:41 pm

        Irving has its own Independent School District. It isn’t the same as the DISD Sending something directly to the Irving ISD might help the teacher and principal in that particular school to fend off the cair attacks.

        • jihad3tracker says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 4:55 pm

          Thanks for the correction. The Texas governor’s office is another possibility for an email of support, along with elected officials who permit out of state persons to get in touch.

          TO OBAMA, CAIR AND EVERY GRIEVANCE-MONGERING MUSLIM IN AMERICA, THIS IS THANKSGIVING WITH A HUNDRED TURKEYS ON THE TABLE.

          We must push back hard..

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 5:17 pm

          Thanks to “somehistory” and “jihad3tracker” for the contact information. They will be getting an e-mail from me.

        • Paulina says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 10:07 am

          I just went to Irving ISD website and read mostly negative comments about the incident. One requested for the teacher to be suspended

    • Peggy says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 9:38 pm

      Yes, exactly what I thought from the start. Using children to pave the way for bombs. Because this turned out to be safe makes the school look like the boy who cried wolf. Now they will be too scared to question the next ‘clock” coming in.

  2. RCCA says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    Can’t say Muslims don’t have a sense of humor. They have a special gift for bomb jokes.

    • RCCA says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 2:31 pm

      Or should I say, jokes that bomb?

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    … and Ahmed has been invited to the White House.

    If this seems sickening, outrageous and unbelievable to any of you wags in here, may I point out that this is the Moslem inventiveness and entrepreneurialism that Prez Barack Hussein extolled in his apology speech at the University of Cairo.

    As hard as it is for us sometimes, we must admit here that even our current president is right some of the time.

    As a computer guy, I’d pay big bucks to get my hands on the design schematics for this design. It looks like the kind of high tech Silicon Valley product that could generate… explosive growth.

    • Westman says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 4:04 pm

      Hey Farmer, did you have a real farming background as a youngster? You seem to have that kind of common sense that goes with a realistic youth.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 7:34 pm

        Nah, actually I’m grew up a working class kid in the city. Used to pedal my bike past the Chrysler foundry as a youth. But dad *did* have a war buddy who had a farm and we’d go there some weekends during the summer. It was like heaven, little private lake, motorcycles without headlights we could ride as 12 yr olds, horses, the works. Like heaven until we found out about the other part of farm life: work. The old man insisted that we help his friend’s sons in the Saturday and Sunday morning chores. I felt so… victimized.

        If dad were still alive today, I’d sue his ass for child abuse.

        • Westman says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 7:54 pm

          “Child abuse” LOL! That’s farming. A hot summer day, over a hundred in the shade, chopped hay coming up the conveyor onto the stack, hay dust falling through your collar and sticking to your skin like some second layer, spitting out the sour flavor. We turned into little green men.

          That was incentive enough to get an education and a job with air conditioning. I don’t know a single farming kid-friend who didn’t become sucessful at making a living – elsewhere!

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    Am I the only one who thinks Hussein Obama is now incapable of behaving rationally when it comes to Muslims in America? Inviting this student can only make us MORE aware of the explosions Islam loves so dearly.

    And what casual remarks will he utter during the visit as he admires the homemade device ? “We must not let the future belong to those who would mistake a clock for a terrorist bomb ! ! ! “

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 5:36 pm

      Jihad3tracker wrote: “Am I the only one who thinks Hussein Obama is now incapable of behaving rationally when it comes to Muslims in America?”

      Not at all, “jihad,” not at all.

      “And what casual remarks will he utter during the visit as he admires the homemade device ? “We must not let the future belong to those who would mistake a clock for a terrorist bomb ! ! ! “

      Clever, “jihad,” and insightful! Well done!

      All that’s left for this young inventor to do is to register for the high school home economics class and to make a suicide vest to impress his seamstress instructor . . .

  5. Charles Martel says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    Isn’t this all a bit too perfect? The appearance of the clock, the photo in handcuffs, CAIR to the rescue? Anyone who’s watched prime time TV in the last 40 years equates a mass of wires, circuit boards and a clock in a briefcase with a bomb. His engineering teacher tried to be nice about it by telling him not to show it to anyone else. The whole episode is PR bait!

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 7:35 pm

      That’s exactly what I was thinking.

      • Westman says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 7:58 pm

        And soon, college scholarships to make up for “ethnic bias”.

  6. underbed cat says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    This is dangerous to have Obama invite him to the WH…..maybe he thought it was “show and tell”……or maybe wanted to admire and to give the in your face presentation to his critics. Certainly he had to get a photo and media coverage. Any doubt someone is aiding and abetting terrorism. And as Robert would say the parents are no doubt “shocked”….and of course have not clue why it looks like a “clock’?

  7. Cecilia Ellis says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    How’s that “If you see something, say something” strategy working out? Well . . . Now that I think of it, we were able to deter the sinister intent of the young boy who ate portions of his slice of pizza to form an image of a gun.

    And CAIR says that this case raises “red flags” . . . because the young inventor’s name is Mohamed. Well, that is true, but not for the whining chant of mistreatment and discrimination spouted by CAIR. It raises “red flags” when a Muslim purposefully constructs what appears to be a bomb and brings that to a school. That Obama would invite this boy to the White House is another disgusting reminder of just what a disgrace Obama is to the U. S. presidency. Not that we needed a reminder. . . He already hosted the parents of Beau Bergdahl in the Rose Garden.

    This entire case has dangerous potential.

    • TexianWife says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 3:01 pm

      Well said, indeed.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 7:28 pm

      Hello Cecilia and TexianWife —

      This is small retribution for those of us who know Hussein Obama’s deep hatred for America and our Constitution, but keep in mind the superb contemporary writers who have already completed chapters on the Traitor-In-Chief.

      We will get truth, finally, about Iranian-born human scum Valery Jarrett, along with sources inside & outside the administration who vomit every night before going to sleep because of lies our president forces them to convey.

      • Cecilia Ellis says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 8:14 pm

        Yep, you’re right, “jihad,” as usual! Keep it coming!

  8. TexianWife says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 2:58 pm

    “He just wants to invent good things for mankind.”
    Hmmm, last time I checked, clocks have been around for a L-O-N-G time. Believe it or not, even “a clock using a circuit board, power supply wired to a digital display” has been around for a few years. DUH. If ANY student had taken the same “clock” to school without receiving prior permission, they would have been treated in the same manner. These are not the days of “Dennis the Menace” or “Leave It to Beaver” anymore, unfortunately.
    My 23-year-old (non-mudslime) son was building entire computers at the age of 12, but he never took them to school to show them off!!!

    • rebl says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 4:26 pm

      I read that too.
      Genius boy INVENTS the CLOCK, harassed as a potential Jihadist.

  9. Charli Main says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    A nicely staged setup, allowing muslims to play the” poor discriminated victim” card. Again !!!

    • Ringgo1 says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 4:17 pm

      Bingo!

  10. Jeremiah says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    The guy has talent and Obama needs bomb makers from pipe bomb to nuclear bombs. The clock maker has a great future with Obama’s contacts.

  11. Westman says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    Actually to anyone who knows electronics well, it doesn’t look like a bomb. The display is immediately above the pc card. The main pc holds the clock “jungle chip” and the lower board is the power supply(rectifier, filter, and voltage regulator) and the power transformer is the small cubic object attached to the wall plug wire. Where is the explosive?

    The problem is that it’s a kit and doesn’t have some brand name on the box. We made a number of these in our high school electronics class.

    Why would some fruit-cake bomb-builder bother making this when more reliable non-suspicious branded clocks are available at Walmart for considerably less money and effort? There are devices far more suited to nefarious purposes on Ebay.

    Another problem is that America is being so “dumbed down” by allowing all the offshore manufacturing that few of us know how to do anything like repair our car, understand and recognize the very technology we use every day or recognize a real bomb. What would we do if suddenly there was no technology we use, available for purchase?

    I see this story as more about the ignorance in the teaching profession than a potential terrorist problem.

    • TexianWife says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 3:13 pm

      “few of us know how to do anything like repair our car…”
      The automobile manufacturers have made it so that newer cars MUST be repaired at dealerships, or at the very least a shop that has the technological equipment to read the diagnostics from the computer in the car. Much of that “technological diagnostic equipment” is very expensive and not something your average Joe has sitting around the home garage ready for use.

      • Westman says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 3:53 pm

        Actually, the diagnostic tools are available at a reasonable cost, including an OBDII scanner(for under $100). OBD diagnostic ports, readable by a standardized method are required by law on cars sold in the US.

        None of my cars have seen a dealership for repair in 45 years. I’ve replaced timing belts, water pumps, radiators, clutches, head gaskets, wheel bearings, brake shoes and pads, cv axles, ignition modules, coils, etc on my cars, family cars, and my father’s farm machinery. My “farm” car has 264,000 miles on it.

        All “Joe” needs to do is keep learning. We have a joke in my family about taking a car to the dealership. It’s the “$300 deal” because it always costs $300+ no matter how minor the problem.

        At some point Americans should start asking when the $300+ nibbles (several days of work income for most) on their after-tax income is reasonable or they should start learning how to conserve their wealth. Is it really smart to have one free day without working on one’s car at the expense of two or three workdays?

        • TexianWife says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 3:59 pm

          I totally agree with you! That’s why my son (the one who used to build computers) does ALL the repairs/maintenance on all the family vehicles…..as well as some friends and neighbors!

        • somehistory says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 4:06 pm

          I’ve worked on cars too…removed and replaced a flex plate at one point.
          However…there are so many places now where people are not allowed to even change the oil in their own yard, personal garage or driveway, much less do more work, such as the changing of the belts, spark plugs, etc.
          Either the neighborhood committees don’t allow it, or the owners of the property on which one might reside forbid it.

        • Westman says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 4:14 pm

          TexanWife,

          Kudos, you must be proud to have such a son. It is families like yours who give me hope that our future generations will be free and keep on earning their prosperity.

        • Westman says

          Sep 16, 2015 at 6:42 pm

          You’re right Somehistory,

          At the least you need a personal car garage. Those HOA agreements for separate houses or condominiums aren’t very enforceable if you keep the garage closed and don’t make noise. Their intent is to keep eyesores off the street, avoid noise, and prohibit a garage business. I don’t use power tools at home for that reason.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 4:13 pm

      Westman wrote:

      I see this story as more about the ignorance in the teaching profession than a potential terrorist problem.
      …………………….

      With respect, Westman, I disagree. Clearly you are very tech savvy, and that is wonderful–but that is not true of all teachers, including some who are quite brilliant and effective. Nor is it true of the general public. This device would be of concern to the average person, and it is quite reasonable to have such a device checked as a precaution.

      What will the upshot of this case be? It won’t be that every public school teacher in America will suddenly become more knowledgeable about clock or bomb building–it will be that such teachers will be afraid to voice their concerns about keeping their kids safe lest they be accused of “Islamophobia” and “failing their students”.

      And that makes things more dangerous for us and easier for real Jihad terrorists–which is just how CAIR wants it.

      • Westman says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 4:28 pm

        While I agree completely about CAIR, I have some doubts about the so-called “engineering teacher”.

        1. Since timers are used to allow the bomb-maker to be absent during the explosion – Why didn’t the teacher ask the student to open the case and expain how it worked? He could easily see that it contained no explosive.

        2. If the teacher did have it open and could not determine that it was safe – then he is totally unqualified as an engineering instructor.

        Sadly, if the German teaching standards were applied in America, many of today’s High School instructors would be in another ptofession, and many of today’s University professors would be teaching in the High Schools.

        • voegelinian says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 3:49 pm

          “Since timers are used to allow the bomb-maker to be absent during the explosion…”

          Yes, for sane mass-murderers who want to stay alive after they’ve mass-murdered; but not for insane Mohammedans who want to pass Go and go straight to Paradise and take down as many Kuffar as they can in the process.

        • voegelinian says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 3:53 pm

          “Why didn’t the teacher ask the student to open the case and expain how it worked? ”

          Yes, I’m sure that in the first class for Police Dept. Bomb Squad cadets is the instruction: “When you see a suspicious box or container, just open it up right away to see what’s inside! I mean, it’s very unlikely that the bomb-maker will have rigged it so that opening the case triggers the explosion… so no worries!”

          And it’s not like there have not been a thousand TV cop shows, spy shows, thrillers, as well as a thousand movies over the past 50 years (most of them using consultation & advice from bomb tech experts) showing precisely this problem to dramatic effect.

      • dsinc says

        Sep 18, 2015 at 3:27 am

        Yes, it’s not any teachers responsibility to decide what is a clock, or what is a time bomb. It is much safer to err on it being a time bomb.

    • Arthur says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 12:35 am

      Westman,

      I agree with you completely. It’s a sorry state of affairs when an Engineering Teacher looks at a PC board soldered by a kid and imagines explosives that don’t exist and then winds up calling the police. The teacher clearly doesn’t understand electronics as well as a 14 year old–he should be trying to explain the circuits, not panic like an ignorant soccer mom.

      I’m a scientist with two doctorates and a medical specialty. I had enough dumb teachers holding me back through school; I can’t imaging having an idiot calling the police because he’s afraid of what he doesn’t understand.

      An engineering teacher should understand electronics more than the “average person.” So I don’t buy all these comments about, “it looks like a bomb to me too!” The teacher should be held to some higher standard.

      No one seems to be getting the complexity of the circuit necessary to count time and the complexity of a digital display. The kid’s work is an achievement! Seems like superficial ignorant people posting here would be more impressed with a fancy leather wristband than understanding some real engineering. Wires and circuits don’t explode! You need explosive chemicals to make a bomb people!

      The fact the kid was born to Muslim parents is something he might be able to change later in life, but honestly, the reactions of people on this site are a big disappointment to me.

      • Arthur says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 1:30 am

        On second thought, reading a bit more about this, I do get the feeling this kid was fantasizing that he had a suitcase bomb, like in a Bond movie, and was attempting to scare classmates or teachers.

        It’s so hard to decipher the truth from media stories–probably best to reserve judgement for those who were present and know the kid.

        5 minutes of asking this kid about the fundamentals of his electronics project would probably be enough to distinguish between a kid interested in electronics and a kid interested in using electronics for other means…

        • voegelinian says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 4:08 pm

          1) The story says it was not the engineering teacher who alerted authorities, but a second teacher:

          On Monday, Ahmed showed the clock to his engineering teacher and then another teacher after the clock, which was in his backpack, beeped during class. That teacher told him that it looked like a bomb, the newspaper reported.

          2) the mere act of bringing even a fake hoax bomb to a school should, and does, warrant calling the police.

          3) Those of us who have been reading Jihad Watch (more) carefully have noted numerous reports over the years of “false flag” ops by Muslims. This can have any one or more of the following intended effects: a) sow terror by the mere potential; b) create an opportunity for the grievance-mongering industry which Muslims are pursuing as part of their stealth jihad; c) a reconnoitering mission to test the waters and discover vulnerabilities and possibilities for future attacks.

          3) All Muslims should be equally suspect anyway.

  12. somehistory says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    It would seem that he doesn’t really know how a *clock* is meant to be used. Clocks are for telling the time…not to be picky, but where are the hands and numbers…or at the very least, the glowing digits…ticking off the minutes? How does one use this *clock* for telling time? And how would he use it stuck in his backpack? X-ray eyes, like Superman?

    From the article: “”On Monday, Ahmed showed the clock to his engineering teacher and then another teacher after the clock, which was in his backpack, beeped during class”

    1. He showed it to his teachers….after…it beeped. Why did he take it to school in the first place? He only showed it to the teachers…after it beeped. And, it *beeped* from his “backpack.” During class

    2. Had he planned to *leave* his backpack with the beeping device behind when he left class so as to frighten whomever might hear it later?

    3 Many explosive devises have used timers for the detonation. Some that made the news in times past, had inexpensive alarm clocks set with the time for the bomb to explode.

    This was a *test*. The muslim kid wanted to see what would happen if he took the device to school and if he would be arrested. If arrested, he could do as he did…claim it was a *clock.* If he had been successful in leaving it behind to beep as some bombs…esp on television shows… do…and it was linked to him, he could say he just *forgot* his backpack, that he had intended to show the *clock* to his teacher.
    Rats carry disease; and sons of rats carry disease even when young.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 3:39 pm

      Good points —– I think there is a below-the-radar attitude in this kid’s mind. And, maybe, a backstory about what conversations go on in with his parents. “We Muslims are always suspected, victimized by profiling . . .”

      • somehistory says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 4:09 pm

        It’s all going according to their plan. Only white people commit terror acts, only white people make bombs, only Christians are *extreme.* To even suggest that a muslim might be thinking about thinking about planning to think about thinking…anything to do with building a bomb or shooting anyone or causing terror is to suggest the unthinkable…it’s just too racist.

        What race is the beast from satan?

    • mach37 says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 4:37 pm

      To somehistory: The “glowing numbers” are there, they just don’t show up in the photo. You show an alarming naivete by your comments in your opening paragraph. Clocks like this are simple trigger devices for explosives, such as an IED. Let’s hope that schools continue to scrutinize such devices and take note of who is bringing them to school. This one could well be a dry run for future similar devices with actual explosives connected to the clock.

      • somehistory says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 10:36 pm

        to mach37

        You show an alarming lack of reading comprehension if your analysis of my comment is an indication

        I clearly wrote that many explosive devices use timers…some have used simple alarm clocks bought for the purpose of going off when the set time for the alarm is reached.
        I also said that the kid was attempting to see if he could *alarm* the teacher by causing the device to beep from his backpack

        And if the *glowing numbers* don’t show up, it is reasonable to ask just what part of this kid’s terror device was supposed to show the time? Were you to read and understand the entire comment I wrote, You would be able to see that I am on the side of the teachers, the prinicpal and the police in this case.

  13. ConcernedCanadian says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 4:48 pm

    “cool clock ahmed ” ???………….are you 12 Obama

    REALLY ???

    Wow

    your president is the worlds biggest idiot lol

    dont worry , we may have our own if Trudeau wins

    Canada will never be the same

  14. Angemon says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.

    Only if from the outside – as someone who dabbles in electronics and spent hundreds of hours working (well, hobby-ing) with breadboards, PCBs and electronic displays, that doesn’t look like a bomb to me.

    All over the country, school officials are on constant high alert for weapons — a high alert that has more than once lapsed over into outright hysteria, with students being suspended for drawing guns, pointing fingers at people and saying “Bang,” etc. But the alert is universal: it doesn’t just single out Muslim students. The key question here is, would Ahmed Mohamed have been arrested if he had been a non-Muslim student and had brought the same contraption to school? And the answer is without any doubt yes, he would have been.

    Indeed – CAIR is trying to profit from a religiously-neutral issue.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/13-year-old-suspended-for-doodling-gun/

    http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Montgomery-Co-Student-Suspended-For-Gun-Gesture-185374841.html

  15. LorFalcon says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    ““He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”

    Mohamed is familiar with anti-Islamic politics. He once made national headlines for debating a Florida pastor who burned a Quran.” This last part is IN the Dallas News, not the Chicago version.

    So the father is a player in this field of taqqiya.. I guess it was time for MORE islamophobia to be exposed. Sometimes it would appear that news just HAS to be made to keep the citizens in line. Thanks CAIR. *sarc/off

    Caution doesn’t make the teacher islamophobic, What the are is BOMBophobic in this day and age.

    • VRWC member77 says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 6:10 pm

      The kid’s name is: Ahmed Mohamed

      The Father’s name is: Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed

      Ahmed can be referenced as being short hand for “mohamed” so you have four name references to the filthy prophet of the death cult known as Islam between TWO people……….there damn well should be a high level of suspicion over this “clock.”

      BTW, what’s with this puke zuckerberg joining in with obama?

      Apparently the dad Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed is a big proponent of sharia. Will CAIR bring that fact to anyone’s attention?

  16. Cdblooms says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    As an electrical engineer, the only people who would confuse that with a bomb are people who have never seen the inside of something electronic. Teachers can maybe be excused for being ignorant, but the police have no excuse. The one teacher he had who was not ignorant told him it was cool, but not to show it to other teachers. I guess now he knows why. The student was also quoted as saying he would certainly never bring a project to school ever again.

    Just because the school administration completely freaked out, totally unnecessarily, does not mean that this is somehow a ‘jihad’ issue. Sometimes a clock is just a clock.

    • LorFalcon says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 6:54 pm

      You just don’t get it do you? A clock is NOT a clock when it’s assembled in a metallic suitcase. It’s a timer. And anyone who is NOT an electrical engineer would think so. Schools are on high alert nowadays for good reason.

      The first teacher he showed, that teacher is at fault for this escalation. He knew the kid and what it was. He should have just confiscated and said, “Come after school to pick this up. We can share later.”

      On the other hand, this boy’s father is quite the taqqiya expert, so it is not without merit to think that this is likely a set-up for more so-called victimization with the “expertise” of CAIR supporting it all.

      I’d like to believe he’s just another nerd-boy, but WHY bring such a timer to SCHOOL?… Naivete or test-drive?

      • voegelinian says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 4:21 pm

        I notice that the “real men” of the counter-jihad are all pooh-poohing the concern because, hey, they know gizmos so well, everybody else should know what they know. One could almost write an SNL skit on this:

        “Anyone knows that you can tell that it’s absolutely clear that the tertiary diodes running perpendicular to the haptic sigmoids weren’t lining up with the Hintenscheldt’s bracket where of course, obviously, to anyone who can see, it should be 3 interconnected backforced cathode Doo-Dads, and not 17 as can plainly be seen… I mean, everyone knows this…”

        Most people don’t even know how electricity works and can barely work an outlet strip — that’s precisely why electrics techology has made everything simplified for user-friendly application, so that the ordinary common man and woman just flips a switch. It’s only the tech geeks & nerds who come along and think everyone else should know and be as interested in all this boring shit.

        • Angemon says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 5:30 pm

          voegelinian posted:

          “I notice that the “real men” of the counter-jihad are all pooh-poohing the concern because, hey, they know gizmos so well, everybody else should know what they know.”

          Huh, no. First of all, no one – other than you, that is – made any connection between being a “real man” and knowing about electronics. Second, who here said that others are required to know what they know? I know that sweeping generalizations for which you can provide no evidence are your shtick, but you’re going overboard – for f***’s sake man, an electrical engineer said “Teachers can maybe be excused for being ignorant”

          Sheesh.

          “ It’s only the tech geeks & nerds who come along and think everyone else should know and be as interested in all this boring shit.”

          Again, who said that everyone should know what they do? Sweeping generalizations, shtick, overboard, etc.

          Also, way to go – calling an electric engineer a “tech geek” and “nerd”? Classy…

          Look, you may think of electronics as “boring shit”, but that doesn’t give you the right to piss on those who like it or even choose to make it their trade. We’re not in Voegelinianstan so if you want to piss on something go find a strong North wind and piss against it.

    • Westman says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 6:56 pm

      I tend to agree. If there is ever a real bomb, don’t send that bomb squad.

      What is so ironic about this overblown “misunderstanding” is that it likely will result in this student ultimately receiving a college scholarship when before this event he was unknown. Anyone want to wager that there isn’t a liberal college and other funding organizations that are now tracking him?

      • LorFalcon says

        Sep 16, 2015 at 7:08 pm

        Well, it’s obvious there are no explosives in the case, but to no end. Bringing such an item to school is equivalent to bringing a rifle without bullets. NOT acceptable.

        Methinks they’re looking for the sympathy card AND a cash pay-out. Isn’t that how it always plays out? sigh…..

        • dsinc says

          Sep 18, 2015 at 3:35 am

          Yes.

  17. Don McKellar says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    Obama, he might want to think about the very real possibility that this punk bastard is actually an Islamic State wannabe and is not going to take advantage of this lucky scenario for assassination. After all, they’re not going to check him out before he meets the pres. — that would be Islamophobic!

    • LorFalcon says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 7:11 pm

      We should be so lucky.

  18. Arafat says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    OT

    Which of the republican candidates would be best in fighting Islam?

    • Jaladhi says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 5:46 pm

      Probably none!!

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 6:13 pm

      ******* TED CRUZ ****** GAVE A SUPERB SPEECH TO A GROUP WHOSE NAME I CANNOT RECALL RIGHT NOW. HE TOTALLY “GETS IT” ABOUT ISLAM.

      (EITHER IN 2014 OR 2015. TOO TIRED TO FIND IT. BUT A SEARCH SHOULD FIND IT. WELL WORTH LISTENING TO.)

    • voegelinian says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 5:18 pm

      Not one Republican candidate is against Islam in the first place (except perhaps when they’re alone in the dark of a closet far from the mainstream…).

  19. Charlie in NY says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    Not to sound glib, but for some reason, this came to mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-jK2x6N_8

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 5:54 pm

      Charlie, what an appropriate video!

  20. abad says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    Yeah and Ahmed has that dead-eyes look that all Muslims have and I HIGHLY question WHY he is learning engineering. Muslims are NOT known for engineering anything beneficial for the human race. The principal did the right thing.

  21. mm says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 7:27 pm

    Here’s how Boston handled something similar in 2007:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare

  22. DJM says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    “He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said every jihadi father whose son built a suicide bomb belt… In the radical muslim mind, killing Jews and Infidels is a good thing for mankind.

    • voegelinian says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 5:19 pm

      Nothing “radical” about the ordinary, traditional, mainstream Islamic imperative to kill all those who stand in the way of domination by Allah’s Master Race.

  23. marc says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    I think they’re wrong on this one, it looks far safer than many of my son’s science projects.
    maybe awful workmanship and a waste of components for a 14 year old who’s meant to be keen on “making stuff”.

    it gave the idiot obumer and cair ammunition they shouldn’t have had.

    I’m actually surprised tech teachers didn’t notice this was benign, i’d be questioning if this was setup for the purpose of generating victimhood.

    perfect time to share https://youtu.be/X7_0NoRHOEM

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Sep 16, 2015 at 10:06 pm

      Marc, I, like you, am most suspicious that this was a “rightly guided” initiative to create a facade of discrimination and victimization that will be bought hook, line and sinker by the mainstream media. It makes absolutely no sense otherwise. By the way, I love that video!

      • voegelinian says

        Sep 17, 2015 at 5:24 pm

        If it was a conspiracy, they would have fabricated something that would have satisfied all the techmeisters (of which this comments section has many, nitpicking at this clock and claiming it is ridiculously not like a bomb). Does it seem plausible that the conspirators had something like the following instructions — “All right brothers, we’re going to make a phony bomb in order to create a pretext for our right against Islamophobia — be sure to make the bomb look ridiculously un-bomb-like and so totally not like a bomb…!”

        >

        • Angemon says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 5:35 pm

          voegelinian posted:

          “If it was a conspiracy, they would have fabricated something that would have satisfied all the techmeisters (of which this comments section has many, nitpicking at this clock and claiming it is ridiculously not like a bomb).”

          Because heaven forbid someone being a “tech geek & nerd” who knows enough “boring shit” to tell from looking at it that was not a bomb…

          Talk about e-peen envy…

        • Cecilia Ellis says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 8:45 pm

          Voeg, I initially opted to take your reply to me as one of humor, because approximately 9 to 13 comments on this thread, all made by commentators prior to my post, basically said the same thing. You made no response to any of them. Additionally, my post was a reply to Marc, who suggested the same consideration as did I, but you did not reply to him; instead, you replied to mine.

          However, your question, “Does it seem plausible that the conspirators had something like the following instructions . . . ,” caused me to reconsider my first option. Here is my answer to your question:

          No, it does not seem plausible that conspirators would provide ridiculous instructions. What does seem plausible is exactly what I said: “[T]his was a “rightly guided” initiative to create a facade of discrimination and victimization that will be bought hook, line and sinker by the mainstream media.” It is the event that attracts one’s suspicions, not the actual design of the prop used to perpetrate that event. That Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, has been noted to be pro-sharia further inspires suspicion, particularly in the arena of what is being said to Ahmed at home by his devout Muslim father.

          Then, again, your comment at 4:08 p.m. this date indicates that you are aware of “false flags,” for as you wrote:

          “3) Those of us who have been reading Jihad Watch (more) carefully have noted numerous reports over the years of “false flag” ops by Muslims. This can have any one or more of the following intended effects: a) sow terror by the mere potential; b) create an opportunity for the grievance-mongering industry which Muslims are pursuing as part of their stealth jihad; c) a reconnoitering mission to test the waters and discover vulnerabilities and possibilities for future attacks.”

          So, based upon your own words, I believe that are inserting sarcastic humor. I’ll leave it at that.

        • somehistory says

          Sep 17, 2015 at 10:56 pm

          I think you may have something there. I can see them talking it over…don’t want to make it look too innocent…wishing to fool those without engineering degrees or experience with just enough tech…diodes, wires of different colors, etc. ..to know it was harmless as far as exploding are being able to time an explosion, so that the teacher of English would not know and would be under stress…after hearing a beep suddenly coming from his backpack and finding that it was not his cell phone…and would react by thinking what the kid and his instructors at the barracks wanted her to think…”Is this a bomb…it looks like a bomb”
          And the kid would react accordingly with “it doesn’t look like a bomb to me” instead of telling her exactly what and why and what his other teacher had said.

          Those who planned this would know that if the teacher reacted normally for someone who doesn’t study bombmaking, electronics, electricity…and called the principal…who reacted the same way…who then called the police…their plan would be as they wished.

          The kid would be questioned, he wouldn’t give honest, up-front answers and would then be arrested. Later…experts in clocks, timers, bombs, etc. would step forward and say…”not a bomb”…They didn’t say it couldn’t be a “timer” for a bomb, did they?
          In steps cair…looking for the media to spread the word about the really racist teachers and cops in Irving…and the kid is so smart and wanting only to “help mankind”…

          It was a set up from the get go. They knew someone would think it could be bomb related and would call the police only to discover it wasn’t a bomb. It fits nicely with all of the other suits and claims of victimhood and slimofopobia

        • voegelinian says

          Sep 18, 2015 at 12:38 pm

          To Cecilia Ellis (it’s refreshing to read and respond to someone who disputes and/or may disagree in good faith and intelligently — unlike Angemon, a perverse Bugs Bunny of a sophist who in his Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder lays rabbit-turd-riddled minefileds of rabbit trails):

          1) My sarcasm of that particular post was directed only at those who leap from their obvious apodictic certainty that this clock is ridiculously transparently “not a bomb” and that everyone should know this, to the false flag/dry run explanation — as though it would not be a false flag/dry run if it were plausibly bomb-like in appearance. In that case, I’m merely poking fun at a needless crotchet of bad logic.

          2) A second leap of bad logic may be that if it is a false flag/dry run, it must be a broad conspiracy, involving any number of non-Muslim “Leftists”. No; with Muslims, if only one Muslim or two Muslims or three conspire to wage jihad (in any of its forms, including the creation of a hoax terror plot in order to “expose Islamophobia”), it is both limited in scope and part of the broad real jihad which all Muslims are waging in their wondrously diverse ways — if only because their Islam provides the overall framework and context for that unification-in-diversity, with the diversity a vast network of moving parts often with no ostensible, linear, legally actionable (from our ploddingly sincere Western standpoint thinking inside our “Expert Terrorism Analysis” Box) collusion..

        • Angemon says

          Sep 18, 2015 at 12:46 pm

          voegelinian posted:

          “Angemon, a perverse Bugs Bunny of a sophist who in his Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder lays rabbit-turd-riddled minefileds of rabbit trails):”

          Always good to see voeg regarding me in “good faith and intelligently”, as opposed to simply making a series of accusations without ever giving any evidence or explanation for, despite being asked several times.

          And look, he’s like, totally NOT engaging in pointless ad-hominems and propaganda against a user he, like totally hates… sarc./ off…

          How was that again, voeg? “ It’s only the tech geeks & nerds who come along and think everyone else should know and be as interested in all this boring shit.“, right? My questions are still standing:

          http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/texas-muslim-student-arrested-for-bringing-clock-that-looked-like-bomb-to-school-obama-invites-him-to-white-house/comment-page-1#comment-1294851

          Perhaps you should spend less of your time pissing on others from the top of your pedestal and spend more time on the intelligent and good-faithed discussion of ideas you claim to love so much…

  24. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    Obama on the back nine, “he’s a radical what? “INVITE HIM TO THE WHITEHOUSE”.

  25. RonW says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    If this kid was so goddam smart, he should have guessed that carrying a box full of a tangle of wires with a LED display into school might be a problem.

    Perhaps that was the point – to make some kind of lame point about ‘racism’.

    sigh.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Sep 17, 2015 at 12:39 pm

      Little Ahmed was interviewed on CNN last night, with his mother next to him. Slight, thin, with big glasses, he has the appearance of the brainy kid who would have been pushed around at our middle school, regardless of color, religion or race.
      I turned the channel when he was asked, “and how did that” ( being subjected to all that islamophobia ) “make you FEE-EL?”
      It was immediately apparent what CAIR/CNN were going for: the plight of this muslim child in scary, intolerant America.

  26. Aaran says

    Sep 17, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    Take your hate somewhere Robs

  27. dsinc says

    Sep 18, 2015 at 3:39 am

    Agreed.

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