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Massachusetts kids build clocks to honor Ahmed the Clock Boy

Oct 25, 2015 7:19 am By Robert Spencer

The fact that Ahmed Mohamed didn’t build anything, but just fit existing clockworks into a pencil box, has been ignored by everyone, including the President of the United States. No one cares that school officials nationwide have acted in similar ways with non-Muslim students, because of the zero tolerance policy on weaponry. The Cambridge Public Library doesn’t care about the ominous implications of this entire episode, with the inevitable effect that school officials will be wary of stopping Muslim students with suspicious objects. None of these facts matter in the unseemly rush to anoint Ahmed Mohamed as a new folk hero and the Rosa Parks of “Islamophobia.”

This exercise at the Cambridge Public Library was not designed to build clocks. It was designed to reinforce for these students the idea that “racism” is rampant in American society, and that Muslims are victims of it who deserve special treatment and honor for their courage and perseverance in the face of it. Vigilance against the terror threat is part of that “racism,” as the next teacher who sees a Muslim student with a suspicious object will let him do whatever he wants rather than face career suicide by reporting him. And so we are all less safe, but hey, the Cambridge Public Library has some clocks made by children to add to its collection, so all is well.

Cambridge clock builders

“Cambridge kids build clocks to honor Texas teen,” by Laura Crimaldi, Boston Globe, October 24, 2015 (thanks to David):

CAMBRIDGE — Third-grader Ari Lavine doesn’t mince words when it comes to what happened to the 14-year-old boy who was arrested in Texas last month after officials determined that the homemade clock the teen brought to school to be a hoax bomb.

“It’s pretty ridiculous,” Lavine said Saturday of Ahmed Mohamed’s ordeal.

The 8-year-old Lavine was among about 40 children who gathered Saturday in the Curious George Room at the Cambridge Public Library to build clocks in honor of Mohamed, whose arrest in September ignited a national debate about racism and profiling.

Luke Kirkland, communications librarian at the library, said he was inspired to organize the event after hearing Mohamed’s story. The library planned two sessions and purchased 10 electronic circuit kits known as “littleBits” for the event, Kirkland said.

The kits will be incorporated into the library’s collection, he said.

The event drew many children who said they are tinkerers like Mohamed who enjoy taking apart toaster ovens and computers at home.

Police ultimately decided not to charge Mohamed, a Muslim from a prominent Sudanese family. But some of the young scientists and engineers who attended the Saturday event are minorities who wondered what they would do if one of their creations was mistaken for something nefarious.

“It’s just ignorance,” said Shane Barnes-Thomas, 12, a student at TechBoston Academy. “There’s tons of racism in the world.”

His mother, Lorraine Barnes, said Shane learned about Mohamed on the news.

“He was totally engaged. Like, ‘Wow. That could have been me,’ ” she said.

Rahul Bhargava, a research scientist at the Center for Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told students that he identifies with Mohamed.

“I was that kid. I was Ahmed,” he said. “I learned to become an engineer by taking stuff apart in my basement.”

“My daughter’s 5,’’ he said. “This is what I do with my daughter and I want to know that she’s not going to get arrested for it.”

Students at the Cambridge workshop used modular electronic parts to construct clocks in solidarity with a Texas student who was arrested.

During the sessions, children wore safety goggles and took apart different electronic equipment, including a VCR and a guitar pedal. Then they were given a cup full of “littleBits” pieces that, when assembled, create an electronic timer. What they didn’t get were any instructions….

In the days leading up to the event, Kirkland said the library received criticism online from Mohamed’s detractors, some of whom complained that his creation was not unique, and others who were bothered by his visit with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a wanted war criminal.No one, however, came to the library to protest the event.

Lavine, the third-grader, said Mohamed would be proud of the young clockmakers in Cambridge. “I think he would think it was pretty cool,” he said.

No doubt. But probably not for the reasons you think.

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  1. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 7:41 am

    The idea that he “built a clock” is the greatest real-world example of “the Emperor’s New Cloths” that I have ever seen.

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 8:39 am

      ” … the greatest real-world example of “the Emperor’s New Cloths” …

      It certainly is. And when one thinks that Andersen’s tale was first published in *1837*, it just goes to show how long all this sort of nonsense has been going on, and how *stupid* and cowardly so many people are.

    • Dacritic says

      Oct 26, 2015 at 7:29 am

      Haha brother, I’d say this clock-boy story is the SECOND greatest example/case of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. The greatest example… is ISLAM itself. You know, the “religion” that the clock-boy and his family profess to follow and which caused all this “Islamophobia” in the first place by… Well… Really blowing up people to smithereens with a bomb. I don’t care what the bloody facts say! I want to insist he DID build a clock.

      Shut your eyes, continue to call clock-boy’s namesake Mohamed the greatest human example the world has ever seen! Ignore the fact that he was a robber. Or the fact that he was a mass murderer. Or a kid rapist. I don’t care what the bloody facts say! I want to insist he WAS the holiest and most perfect of men.

  2. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 7:43 am

    So the kid’s invention was exposed as nothing of the sort, it was only a packaging job, so he was no genius at all, and he wasn’t victim of discrimination but only of understandable caution after recent school mass murders, and the details of his arrest were never published but indications are he himself provoked his arrest purposefully, and his old man is a Moslem activist who denounces freedom and stirs up victimist controversy, and now the Mohamed clan is moving to terror sponsor state Qatar…

    Exposed to whom? What % of the population knows these things, or even has heard of them but don’t buy it? Also, notice who organized this reality-denying self-destructive ignorance, the people running the library are highly paid public sector union members which automatically means they are anti-American socialists who held their nose when they voted for the too rightist Cherokee Indian Senator Liz Warren.

    • Don McKellar says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 10:18 am

      An excellent pocket summary of an event of fakery to advance a sinister political agenda, which has become the ultimate symbol of the entire presidential reign of fakery to advance a sinister political agenda. Clock Boy is Obama, Obama is Clock Boy.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 11:13 am

        Clock Boy is Obama, Obama is Clock Boy.

        There is a lot to that. Both are fakes, and both project noble things that are actually fakes; it’s just that Ahmed is at the start of his career and Barack Hussein is well into his. The two are together, brothers, in that they are black. Both are photogenic and amiable, electronic images of them are well received. And, while I don’t know much about Ahmed, it looks like both are empty vessels except to transmit select thematic messages to the public. Oh, and one last thing, both make me sick to my stomach, pompous asses.

    • خَليفة says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 6:09 pm

      Yes, being smart enough to fit a disassembled clock into a pencil box makes a Muslim a genius – relative to other Muslims. The standard is very low for Muslims. On the other hand, being around hundreds of thousands of ignorant immigrants makes those leftist liberals feel relatively “smarter” if you are ugly, hang around even uglier people- they will make you look good.

  3. Angemon says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 8:02 am

    The library planned two sessions and purchased 10 electronic circuit kits known as “littleBits” for the event, Kirkland said.

    Huh, shouldn’t they be buying regular clocks and screwdrivers instead?

    • Jay Boo says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 8:53 am

      “The library planned two sessions”

      Session two will be with box cutters and flight simulation software.

      • Westman says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 10:15 am

        And likely, the coup de grace – a free Quran for each participant.

      • Joseph says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 12:21 pm

        Jay Boo,
        Will the simulation also include a can of soda, explosive underwear and **special** tennis shoes w/a box of matches?

  4. Christopher H says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 8:31 am

    Even better was when Richard Dawkins, science & evolution’s big-namer debunked the “clock” kid as having done no more than place assembled commercial clock parts inside a pencil box. And still to this day people refuse to see the facts when even their heroes point it out.

    • revereridesagain says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 9:45 am

      People won’t recognize the truth if it threatens myths that “comfort” them and make them feel good. You ought to know that.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 10:49 am

      I built a very good WORKING crystal radio – complete with variable condenser in an old cedar wood cigar box when I was 11 years old – all it got me was a nerd label!

      • Budvarakbar says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 10:51 am

        And with no direction or encouragement from my parents – save my Dad buying me the galena crystal and feeler at a downtown electronics parts store

      • Westman says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 11:30 am

        I remember the cigar box days. I made mine using a germanium diode as the rectifier and a Ratheon CK 722 transistor to amplify the sound. I had a great friend, Charlie, whose engineer father could get us the latest components, yet, he never interferred or told us how to do things. Surprisingly, even though there were a few smoky moments, we didn’t set the basement on fire.

      • rev g says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 12:58 pm

        At 14, I was modifying CB radios, and etching and drilling my own PC boards to produce “ON” TV pirate boxes and battery powered guitar amps from old speaker boxes. Even these were not inventing anything, someone else did the design work, I was just copying their inventions.

        • Westman says

          Oct 25, 2015 at 1:36 pm

          Well said, Rev. Wasn’t it fun?

          There is a tremendous language inflation these days. Even LittleBits calls their projects, “inventions”.

        • ethel mertz says

          Oct 25, 2015 at 1:58 pm

          Language and vocabulary are under assault and being destroyed. Like the word “racist”, the word “invention” will be also become meaningless.

        • rev g says

          Oct 25, 2015 at 4:13 pm

          It is great fun. In latter days I have built a few amps and transverters for amateur radio use. My real passion there is a antennas though. I enjoy taking a known design and tweaking it or adapting it to make it more suitable for my situation. My 21 element quaqi for 432 MHz finally bit the dust last winter. The wood boom lasted 15 years though, not bad for a ten dollar aerial. Made a couple eggbeaters to run the backup station for an elementary school space shuttle contact once, too.

      • Westman says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 5:57 pm

        Rev,

        Outstanding for anything wood outdoors.

        I made a few Yagi antennas but never operated higher than two meters. I got my first class license and worked at a TV station for a while and never really got back to it. I went on to college, work, and family but never regretted a minute of that time which laid the foundation for rest of my professional life.

        I thank God every day that I was born in a time and place where I could find my own fulfillment in life. Sometimes I think life is neutral with a balance of ups and downs, but it’s been a great ride – all I can carry is the experience.

        • Rev g says

          Oct 25, 2015 at 6:36 pm

          Yes, the world gets weirder every day.
          I am not as active in the ham bands these days, mainly due to lack of time.
          On 2 meters and above the quagi (quad loop driver and reflector) is much simpler to drive than a yagi, and the loop gain minimizes losses due to minor measurement errors. Direct feed with a simple ferrite bead balun.
          Perfect for the experimenter.

  5. Itinerant says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 8:33 am

    Will the students also be visiting Sudan, will they too
    hug Sudan’s genocidal Islamist dictator Omer Hassan al-Bashir ?
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/16/texas-muslim-clock-boy-hugs-sudans-genocidal-theocrat/

    Al-Bashir is not so distant from US politics as first appears;
    “Obama’s Brother In Bed With Terrorists”
    http://shoebat.com/2013/05/28/confirmed-barack-obamas-brother-in-bed-with-man-wanted-by-international-criminal-court-icc-for-crimes-against-humanity/

    The ‘clock’ was a deliberately provocative act, designed to engineer a situation where they could shout Islamophobia.

    The con-game has worked out so well- the perpetrators are receiving all kinds of benefits and awards.

    It sets a precedent- if a privileged minority is involved- the perception of discrimination ( regardless whether there has been any) is enough to get a large material award and a presidential invitation.

    Just more pc nonsense that to an Islamist couldn’t be more inviting- it just makes the US look weak and utterly gullible.

    • Mirren10 says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 8:43 am

      ”The con-game has worked out so well- the perpetrators are receiving all kinds of benefits and awards”

      Yep. The mohamed family, and CAIR, must be laughing their socks off in *amazed* glee. They probably didn’t think even the unbelievers could be so suicidally stupid.

      • Raja says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 11:57 am

        Mirren10,

        Yes, suicidally stupid indeed. Well said….

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 11:59 am

        They probably didn’t think even the unbelievers could be so suicidally stupid.

        We’re all learning as we work our way through this terribly difficult process. Well, *they* are learning. We’ll figure our side out later, kick-the-can style, probably about the same time we get deficit spending under control.

  6. Kepha says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 8:40 am

    And what will happen and what will be said when one of these kids in Massachusetts grows up, and one fine Friday walks into a mosque with his clock ominously ticking?

    America has grown so open-minded that, one of these days, its collective brains will fall right out of its collective head.

    • JOHN SPIELMAN says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 10:08 am

      it seems that everyone (except Jihad Watchers) has joined the Obamanation, Nancy Pelosi, the ACLU,and GOV Jerry “moonbeam” Brown in lah lah land

  7. simpleton says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 9:31 am

    Similiar to Breibart’s report, but includes more travel shots, being in Mecca and Qatar
    Read more: http://sputniknews.com/us/20151017/1028657274/ahmed-mohamed-visits-sudan-bashir.html#ixzz3p91NVT3c

    Ahmed told the media he was “extremely delighted” to meet Bashir and said he hoped to meet the dictator of Sudan again “with a new invention and success,” reported the Sudan Tribune.

    Great series of photos of jet setter Ahmed in Mecca, Qatar and Sudan where he puts an arm around the great leader Bashir of Sudan and about his family travels in the middle east.

    Just where does the money come from to take the family on haj in mecca then Qatar to Sudan, and then back to the states

    Then about President Bashir even though he and the London banks denies this.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir

    During the frequent fighting, Al-Bashir allegedly looted the impoverished nation of much of its wealth. According to leaked US diplomatic cables, $9 billion of his siphoned wealth was stashed in London banks.

    Would this be one of the reasons that Ahmed’s father twice ran against President Bashir,,, maybe follow the money?,, that is being spent?? on their family travels.
    Is he just a candidate to make it look like there is an election, and after all the votes for him were so in some parts less than minimal,

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 9:41 am

    The desensitization of Americans to jihad continues. The intimidation of school teachers who report something suspicious goes on.

    …and the JIHADISTS LAUGH at our gullibility!

    • Miao Zedong says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 10:43 am

      The first time I started to get worried about islam was after the massacre of tourinst in Luxor in the 90s. I tried to understand the reasons and find answers and I no longer believe that “we” have our sights on the riht goal.

      How could “Jihad” ever become a threat to us, if not by the aid of powerful people and officials in our own culture ? It has become so clear now, since Merkel paved the path for millions to come and expecting the simple man on the street to accept the burden.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 11:17 am

        … the massacre of tourinst in Luxor in the 90s.

        I remember that. It was a bloody episode with the actors demonstrating total disregard for being caught or killed. When that happened I thought, whoa, something’s afoot, and you can kiss the Egyptian tourist business goodbye. Both panned out.

    • Westman says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 10:45 am

      Clock-boy has transmogrified into Da’wah-boy.

      Be the first to get your copy of this ground breaking issue from Marvel Comics. See Da’wah-boy cause confusion among the non-believers as he fights the criticism of polygamy, amputations, throwing Christians into the sea, minimizing women, persecuting Jews, association with dictators, etc with mighty earth-shaking shouts of “Discrimination”; bringing wealth and notoriety to family and friends. A truly American rags-to-riches story to be emulated.

  9. mortimer says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 9:44 am

    “Ahmed told the media he was “extremely delighted” to meet Bashir and said he hoped to meet the dictator of Sudan again “with a new invention and success,” reported the Sudan Tribune.

    Let’s analyze this: 1) he approves of dictatorship 2) he plans another invention (an IED, perhaps) 3) he hopes to have a ‘successful’ detonation of it.

  10. jewdog says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 9:49 am

    Obama’s brain is like Ahmed’s clock: A perfectly good piece of machinery taken apart by political correctness.

    • Anonymous says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 10:51 am

      If, after being a Jihadwatch reader, political correctness is all you think Obama is guilty of, then it is not surprising that the ‘too-busy-to-think’ masses give Ahmed the benefit of doubt,

  11. Don McKellar says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 10:20 am

    Clock Boy is Obama, Obama is Clock Boy.

  12. EllenK says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 10:31 am

    Evidently this kid had a thick history of behavior problems. The school itself is mostly Hispanic. The kid’s sister had been suspended for calling a bomb threat. This was the same sister who coached him through the phone interview.This was little more than publicity for his Dad to run for the presidency of Sudan a third time. What’s odd is that all that money numbskulls donated to little Ahmed’s college career is now gone, I’m sure it will be used to pay for votes in Sudan. In the meantime, in Qatar, people who have dark skin are truly discriminated against often treated as poorly as the foreign workers who end up as virtual slaves. I still see little proof that this kid is any sort of a genius. I teach kids who I know are geniuses. They come from some of the same parts of the world as this troublemaker and they are smart enough to know what is funny and what is provocative. Frankly, I’m glad he’s gone, I think the narrative that he was some sort of special child was something CAIR and the White House put in place as they have so many other fake narratives.

  13. Miao Zedong says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 10:36 am

    Apparently in todays society even the meaning of “invention” is lost. The worst part is, that I have come to the conclusion that not all is concious manipulation by the priests of the PC(/MC religion but their own incompetence to understand basic science and technology.

    • Westman says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 11:10 am

      Don’t forget the laziness component of “journalism”.

      The low standard is using two sources for a story. Dad and Sister say Ahmed “invented” the clock – good enough. The journalist has a deadline and is unlikely to do any kind of self-education because it takes time.

      Few news organizations have qualified science or technology reporters for the same reason professional engineers don’t teach in High Schools.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 12:06 pm

        Don’t forget the laziness component of “journalism”.

        I forgot it when I first heard them acknowledge that they are now in the narrative business and not the fact reporting business, having gone from being lazy alcoholic pontificators to being outright propagandistic liars.

  14. Budvarakbar says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 10:56 am

    “Third-grader Ari Lavine” ???– kid needs an extended trip to Israel!

    What the hell can you expect from the land of Kennedys, Kerrys, and pressure cooker bombs

  15. Dave says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 12:00 pm

    When I start listening to an 8 year old explain to me what is or isn’t ridiculous just go ahead and put me down. Sounds like the inmates are running the prison at that school.

    • revereridesagain says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 12:53 pm

      Cambridge is a lost cause. The only question is whether its denizens caught crazy from Harvard or it was the other way around. (M.I.T. also occupies space in town but that doesn’t seem to matter.) Eight-year-olds there explain the world the way they hear it from mommy and daddy/mommy/daddy and NPR and MSNBC and Senator Warren and that nice Mr. Sanders during the Dumb Dems Debate.

      Last Thursday I sent the library a laundry list of links to articles and videos demonstrating the exact nature of the fraud perpetraed by Ahmed, his family, and CAIR. It wouldn’t make a dent in their PC-thickened skulls, but at least it made me feel better.

  16. Dave G says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    “The fact that Ahmed Mohamed didn’t build anything, but just fit existing clockworks into a pencil box, has been ignored by everyone, including the President of the United States”
    Where is the evidence for this statement? Can you please provide a link.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 12:23 pm

      If you need a link to an authority to prove this negative, you probably pray 5 times a day. No mention has been made in the mainstream media of the fact that Ahmed Mohamed invented nothing, he only did a quick assembly job and put it in a metal case. *You* provide a link where a major news outlet publicized this irrefutable fact.

      • Westman says

        Oct 25, 2015 at 12:49 pm

        You seem to right about that APF.

        In the story:

        “…gathered Saturday in the Curious George Room at the Cambridge Public Library to build clocks in honor of Mohamed…”

        Now go to the LittleBits website and look at the “inventions” – no clock projects!

        THERE IS NO CLOCK PROJECT IN THE LITTLEBITS LIST OF PROJECTS!!

        Somebody find one, quick!

        http://littlebits.cc/

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Oct 25, 2015 at 6:03 pm

          You’ve got me, West. Get invited to the Cambridge Public Library by the overpaid can’t be fired make 30-60% more public sector union members running it, and you too are made into an electronic genius. But, does this mean you and your family get to emigrate to Qatar? That country is doing better than us economically, so some may want to get out of here.

        • ninetyninepct says

          Oct 29, 2015 at 12:34 pm

          Clock Boy must be referred to as Bomb Boy.

          Also, the kids in that library were likely learning the making of simple timing devices to be sent to the Bomb Boy.

      • Dave G says

        Oct 29, 2015 at 12:07 pm

        “If you need a link to an authority to prove this negative, you probably pray 5 times a day. ”

        Some verification was needed because biased people like you are happy to spread lies to support your cause. Jihad Watch stands out because Robert relies on evidence rather than opinion. The link, which I missed, is:
        http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/#.VfyOF0UiXuN.twitter
        The information in this article can be evaluated on its merits.

    • Robert Spencer says

      Oct 25, 2015 at 12:57 pm

      There is a link on the statement itself. Don’t you see it? It’s in red.

      • Dave G says

        Oct 29, 2015 at 11:58 am

        THANK YOU. i did indeed miss the link. I wonder if anyone has refuted this revelation.

  17. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 12:18 pm

    Doc, you should be in the Reality TV business. Nah, nobody would ever hire ya; too many would be ruined by the scripts.

  18. BlueRaven says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 12:44 pm

    Today, a school in Mass, tomorrow all schools in the States will ‘build’ clocks, and day Obummer declares a public holiday for the ‘Genius’. Nothing will surprise me.

  19. ethel mertz says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    “It’s just ignorance,” said Shane Barnes-Thomas, 12, a student at TechBoston Academy. “There’s tons of racism in the world.”

    What the hell does this child know of the world? Obviously a brainwashed tool. He is correct that ignorance may play a role. It would be helpful if people on the side of Clockboy would understand that most people in the world are not science enthusiasts or aspire to be an engineer. Therefore, they may not have the ability to know what they are seeing. This doesn’t make them racist, just unknowing. Have a little perspective people! They want to be tolerated, but they need to have tolerance too! I have witnessed ZERO introspection on the part of the defenders of Clockboy. How about investigating how something like this could be prevented in the future? I can tell them where to start…. With the parents. Didn’t they know he was taking this contraption to school? Clockboy himself admitted that he tried to package the contraption so it wouldn’t look “suspicious”.

    Second, Clockboy disobeyed his first period teacher that he showed this contraption. That teacher, being a science teacher, knew it was a tinkering project. However, that teacher knowing that it looked bad told Clockboy to not take it to anywhere else on campus, that he was to put it in his locker, period. But no, Clockboy is awesome and special and doesn’t have to listen. So he took it to multiple classes until he finally got confronted. This all could have been avoided if only Clockboy would have obeyed his science teacher. A good parent would have taken their child to the woodshed over this, sent back all the gifts he was showered with, condemned all praise given to his child, and instruct other parents to pay attention to your damn kid and have some common sense. But no.

    When one looks at the situation in it’s totality, and the actors involved, one (or many now) can not come to any other conclusion other than the fact that this was a complete hoax, a set up. I hate to say it, but one of these days the real deal is in fact going to happen. I don’t wish for anyone to get hurt, but I really hope it happens in one of these liberal areas like Massachusetts because they are the one’s who are enabling and perpetrating this hoax onto the rest of us. But then again, they probably still won’t get it, and will continue to blame Islamophobia and and white racism as the cause of Islamic attacks. So, maybe my sentiments are futile. I feel like I’m in a nightmare and can’t wake up.

  20. Dave J says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    This story was too good for the Liberal Media to pass up: “Handsome boy genius wearing NASA T-shirt who happens to be a Muslim is cruelly oppressed by ignorant racist Islamophobes”. So they all fell over themselves to make up a narrative, without the least bit of actual investigative reporting. Probably the Editors said we need more stories like this.

    Gullible wishful thinking – they were successfully suckered into yet another whiny Islamic victimhood fraud.

    Newsroom scene from Dr. Horrible:

    “It’s the perfect story,
    so they say,
    A hero leading the way,
    Ahmed’s call to glory,
    Let’s all be our best.
    Next up – who’s gay?”

  21. somehistory says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    The *no-genius* moslim kid who took the clock guts to school…who can tell who really took the clock out of its original case and put it in the box…we only have the kid’s word for that…and what good is the word of a liar? None. He lied over and over, so it is not inconceivable that someone else…his father or sister maybe, took the clock out of the original box and as he first said, it took him twenty minutes to put it in the pencil box that didn’t look so much like it contained pencils as it did a timer for a bomb.

    Now, we have brainwashers busy in MA schools, showing other little…younger…children, they too can cause confusion and suspicion and get the police called. But first, they must learn the art of manipulation. They must learn to be passive aggressive and refuse to answer questions and refuse to follow the instructions of their teachers when told not to do something that is likely to cause harm, even if the harm is only in the thinking…terror begins with thinking, first in the mind of the terrorist and then the mind of his/her victims…of other teachers/students.

    The kid, the would-be-terrorist…actually, what he did was an act of terrorism as it caused the teacher and others to view his contraption with suspicion and fear or he would not have been arrested…was arrested, not for color or *religious* belief, but for what he did.

    The truth has been made known as many techs and engineers have shown how this clock was *made* to look suspicious and that the kid did not invent anything, nor did he improve on an earlier invention

    But that won’t, and doesn’t, matter. Once a lie is told, it gains more ground than the truth, being repeated and enlarged upon beyond the wildest dreams of the originator of the lie.
    It’s much like the old game of *Gossip* but not nearly as funny or as much fun.
    School personnel building on the lie, in the minds of other children, will have bad repercussions down the road. And the kid and his father are most likely laughing up their sleeves at what is happening in their wake.
    The younger Boston Bomber was *cute* according to some and many held that he shouldn’t be punished. This clock destroying kid is being treated the same way.

    What next? A kid much like him or his sister will bring a real timer and bomb to school and many children and their teachers will lose life and limb.
    And all because it isn’t polite to question a moslim behaving suspiciously…it’s *racist*…and there is a *ton* of it.

    Words are so misused. A *ton*…used to mean something. Just like *invention* and *racist* and so many others. Truth as a word is still around, but so many people refuse to recognize it when it is more than a word.

  22. Lenny Thetruth says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 3:26 pm

    The “Storming and Norming” process is at work in the White House. The idea is that if you are black or a Muslim, you should not be attacked for it. But, you should not get any special treatment because of it either. The present administration bends over backwards to cater to these people, and for stupid reasons. Obama is a Muslim, or a supporter, at worst. There is no real justification for his blatant disregard for the majority of Americans who are both white and Christian.
    So, the “Storming” comes out. These people pop up all over the place. We are reminded not to judge them all by the actions of one, but they all refuse condemnation of bad acts. I don’t care if he could be your son, Mr. Obama, if he does wrong, call a spade a spade. They do rediculous things and deserve no special treatment or celeberty status. The more of them, the less sensitive we become. And, they are everywhere.
    So, they have arrived. Now becomes the “Norming” process. We are told that these are “normal” people, being singled out by us for persecution. We do this because they are different. But, America is made up of immigrants, and they in turn, add to our culture. So, that would be a good thing. But, all it does is tell us that we must accept this and their shennanigans into our society. We are constantly being reassured that they mean to enrich our society. But, they don’t. They will never become normal. or presidential material, as long as they want to destroy what we already have. What they take, they destroy. They want to change our laws. They want to be the elite of society. They already have the sense of “entittlement” that allows for them to take, and not share.
    These people will never be good Americans until they learn how to live with others. They can not push their religion and ancient customs down our throats. The trouble is, most Americans don’t see this as something coming to them, their city, or their government. It’s somebody else’s problem. Wake up America. You are at the wheel. Don’t fall asleep.

  23. Mo says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    I couldn’t even get past the title and the first few lines.

    How these fools grovel to this death cult! It’s sickening!

  24. Bluffs says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    The faces, voices and behavior of defeat. Guns will be handed in as per deadline. Powerless American victims will convert. Hope I’m wrong.

  25. Mirren10 says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    ” They should have sat the boy down, poured a bunch of individual components for a digital clock on a table in front of him and ask him to build a clock from the parts.”

    🙂

    But that would have been ‘islamophobic’, and after all, the dear little chap has been ‘traumatised’ enough !

    I’d *love* to have seen it, though.

  26. Matthieu Baudin says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 10:17 pm

    There are no limits to the possibilities for indoctrination of the young in the brave new PC world.

  27. More Ham Ed says

    Oct 25, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    We need a national throw-a-radio-shack-clock into a pencil box day as a mockery. Also, no-one seems to be pointing out that the loose, careless way the clock-boy put the AC transformer into the pencil box, was a fire hazard at best.

  28. dlbrand says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 12:33 am

    A nation with such an undeniable swath of profound fools should soon expect to inaugurate National “Clock-Boy Day,” on, say, 23 December—just to send a clear message to all.

    All but blooming unbelievable.

  29. Aron says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 12:57 am

    “Then they were given a cup full of “littleBits” pieces that, when assembled, create an electronic timer. What they didn’t get were any instructions….” TO MAKE A TICKING TIME-SET BOMB ?

    Theyre mad arent they ?

  30. Aron says

    Oct 26, 2015 at 1:25 am

    MASS INDUCTION OF COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION

    Imagine, if Al Qaeda or ISIS were to attempt 9/11 again and this New Behavior all over America to be Politically Correct and Wise?

    20 boys even with names that read Mohamad Atta, Osama and Bagdadi turn up at Flying Schools and ask for Flight Training!

    Is it about Stigmata of being Muslim or Discrimination?

    The cocky ‘clock’ boy’s dad says ‘this (incident) will help spread Islam’!

    In other words Liberals pitch this as promoting Secular outlook and Undermines Religious identities-

    While the boy and his Dad celebrate this as Gain for Islam’s image dented by their own Extremists and will lead to this Religion’s wider acceptance and gain Converts!

    Then they make a point after all this Lessoning and Schooling of American Nation on what should be the Ideal Social Values- moving over to Qatar!

    They dont have any problem with Qatar and its sponsorship of Islamic State and horrendous Human Rights abuses, mass killings, Sex Slavery etc.

    Qatar afterall is ‘helping Spread of Islam”?
    So what the boy’s dad said is chilling- ‘ this Clock hysteria will help spread Qatar’s way of spreading islam”! By lowering the guard and vigil against potential terrorists.

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