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Federal judge dismisses “Clock Boy” lawsuit: school didn’t target him because he was Muslim

May 19, 2017 3:15 pm By Robert Spencer

“Plaintiff does not allege any facts from which this court can reasonably infer that any IISD employee intentionally discriminated against Ahmed Mohamed based on his race or religion.”

Of course. No one discriminated against him. School officials were trying to protect the students, which is what this lawsuit was trying to forestall in the future, making future school officials afraid to do anything against a Muslim student who was behaving in a threatening manner.

As the Washington Post noted at the height of the controversy over his “clock,” Ahmed was showered with gifts and support from “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and Google co-founder Sergey Brin,” while “Tweets, think pieces and daytime TV segments were dedicated to dissecting how Ahmed’s situation typified racism and Islamaphobia [sic] in America,” and he “visited the Google Science Fair, met with Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, posed with the queen of Jordan at a United Nations Summit, appeared on the ‘Doctor Oz’ show and last night, made it to the White House.”

Ahmed Mohamed became the darling of the political and media elites and met Obama. He was celebrated everywhere as an innocent victim of “Islamophobia.”

He became an international hero. Yet he then claimed to have been “defamed,” and filed suit. This lawsuit was a naked attempt to continue the intimidation efforts that his clock represented. His clock, which looked like a suitcase bomb, was a strike against the dictum “If you see something, say something”: after Ahmed’s clock, school officials and others would think twice before committing career suicide by questioning suspicious behavior by Muslims. And then Ahmed and his family moved in for the kill, trying to intimidate people into not even daring to criticize Muslims who engage in these intimidation tactics, for fear of being slapped with a lawsuit.

A rare bit of sanity from a federal court is a welcome sight indeed.

“EXCLUSIVE: Judge dismisses ‘clock boy’ lawsuit saying the school didn’t discriminate against Ahmed Mohamed when the Muslim teen’s teacher called the police because she thought he made a bomb,” by Kaileen Gaul, Dailymail.com, May 19, 2017:

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Ahmed Mohamed’s father, saying the family will not get a payout from the city of Irving, Texas or the school district for the ‘clock boy’ scandal, DailyMail.com has learned.

On September 14, 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed gained national attention when his high school teacher suspected he brought a bomb to school.

Ahmed was surprised and showed the teacher it was actually a homemade alarm clock. She told the Muslim teen she would keep it behind her desk for the rest of the day.

Later that day, the teacher called the police who arrested Ahmed at MacArthur High School. Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Mohamed, claimed the officers were overly forceful in pulling him from his chair. He says they yanked his arms up and behind his back so far that his right hand touched the back of his neck.

Ahmed was booked, finger printed, interrogated and had his mugshot taken for the offense of a ‘hoax bomb’. The charges were later dropped.

Mohamed filed a Federal lawsuit against the City of Irving, Texas and Irving Independent School District accusing them of violating his son’s civil rights.

Court papers obtained by DailyMail.com reveal on May 18, a judge dismissed the entire case. The lawsuit sought unspecified compensatory and punitive damages along with attorney fees.

The judge wrote: ‘Plaintiff does not allege any facts from which this court can reasonably infer that any IISD employee intentionally discriminated against Ahmed Mohamed based on his race or religion.’

Further, he notes that the suit failed to identify any policy, custom, or practice of the City that was allegedly the moving force behind any violation of Ahmed’s Fifth Amendment rights.

When the lawsuit was first filed in 2016, the district hit back at the Mohamed family’s allegations saying Ahmed deliberately disobeyed his teacher by activating the clock despite her warning.

The judge said the failed to allege any facts from which the court could reasonably conclude that Ahmed was discriminated against based on his race or religion.

Ahmed’s family initially filed a lawsuit claiming they were entitled to $15 million for the ‘clock boy’ incident. The most recent lawsuit requested unspecified compensatory and punitive damages along with attorney fees.

The ruling said the suit had: ‘Absent allegations of intentional discrimination, or allegations from which the court can reasonably infer intentional discrimination, Plaintiff fails to allege an equal protection violation against the IISD.’

Mohamed’s complaint also said Irving Independent School District has an ‘ugly history of race struggles,’ and the State of Texas and the IISD have a ‘history of discrimination against Muslims in Texas curriculum and schools.’…

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  1. Carlos Danger says

    May 19, 2017 at 3:19 pm

    Clockmed and his Daddy, Mohammed Mohammed, are termites seeking to eat away at the national fabric. I hope their entire tribe moves to a shariah compliant non-Scandinavian country where they can live happily amidst their own kind.

    • mortimer says

      May 19, 2017 at 4:37 pm

      Carlos, they are discrediting themselves bit by bit. There is less sympathy for Islam every day as people learn more about Islam’s central, canonical, core doctrines: the canonical, eternal warfare against disbelievers (the dirty kufaar) and the canonical, essential doctrine of hatred and apartheid against the disbelievers (the dirty kufaar).

      Islam’s doctrines can be read by everyone who has an open mind to learn what Islam teaches from its own scholars.

      Read: http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim

      • carlos danger says

        May 19, 2017 at 5:02 pm

        I agree Sir….our job is to tell the truth, make the connections, and hold the feet of the Establishment to the fire.

      • Norman Moffatt says

        May 19, 2017 at 5:31 pm

        If people want the short version of Islam, they only need to study the prophet Mohammad, Muslims are taught Mohammad is the perfect example and is to be followed in every way. After studying Mohammad it clear he was a thief, liar, murderer and pedophile.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          May 20, 2017 at 8:10 am

          And a rapist.

          And a slave-trader.

          And a ‘boss’ who sent out assassins to ‘off’ anyone who dared to criticise him or his ‘companions’ or his weird cult.

        • Andre Paul says

          May 20, 2017 at 7:14 pm

          The perfect model to follow.

    • gravenimage says

      May 19, 2017 at 6:14 pm

      Carlos Danger wrote:

      Clockmed and his Daddy, Mohammed Mohammed, are termites seeking to eat away at the national fabric. I hope their entire tribe moves to a shariah compliant non-Scandinavian country where they can live happily amidst their own kind.
      ………………..

      They already did–they moved to Qatar–and they didn’t like it. So they returned to the “Great Satan”, hoping to milk us for more money and fame.

      Of course, Clock Boy is pretending that he returned to “help change Texas for a better state, and I hope that not just for Texas, but the entire world”.

      Taqiyya at its finest…

      • Carolyne says

        May 20, 2017 at 11:22 am

        How could this insignificant gnat improve Texas? By making Texas afraid to report a bomb hoax? We are told that if we “See something, say something,” yet when we do, we are persecuted and prosecuted, have the so-called Justice Dept. down our necks and become pariahs in our own country, while this insect is lauded and rewarded for his hoax. He did not make this “Clock.” He simply transferred an old Radio Shack alarm clock from one container to another,–one that looked like a suitcase holding a bomb with wires hanging out of it. He was assigned no school project which had anything to do with alarm clocks, but as we know, many bombs are set off by alarm clocks. And so he made it his project, with I suspect, the connivance of his father, Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed. It has since been reported that his sister threatened to blow up the school the previous year. Seems to run in this barbaric family.

        We don’t need this idiot’s help in our country, but I can think of a dozen Muslim countries where he could perhaps teach a course in bomb making, or bomb hoaxes. The US has become the laughing stock of the world, due to Obama and his administration and I truly believe that he and his cohorts still in Washington are trying to overthrow our duly elected president. And while this gnat was born here and can’t be deported, his father and mother can be sent back to that Islamic heaven, Sudan, to work their Islamic hoax magic.

    • Guy Jones says

      May 19, 2017 at 8:40 pm

      These twits already moved to Qatar after this ridiculous, theatrical victimhood stunt, then, after a brief stay, decided that living in an Islamic society, while sounding great on paper, actually is less rewarding and comfortable than living in the infidel USA.

      • bipedant says

        May 20, 2017 at 1:02 am

        C’mon dad, lets go back and hang out with the infidels.

        • TheBuffster says

          May 20, 2017 at 2:32 am

          And cheat them out of some money.

    • Charli Main says

      May 20, 2017 at 5:19 am

      ” I hope their entire tribe moves to a shariah compliant non-Scandinavian country where they can live happily amidst their own kind”.

      Oh God NO!!!!!!
      Please, please don’t showup in Britain.

  2. jewdog says

    May 19, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    Hickory, dickory, dock,
    The lawsuit was a crock.
    Clock Boy struck out,
    Obama’s a lout,
    Hickory, dickory, dock.

    • PRCS says

      May 19, 2017 at 5:50 pm

      Heh, Heh!

  3. mortimer says

    May 19, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    Even Muslims are bomb-o-phobic unless they are practicing jihadis.

  4. Clair Reading says

    May 19, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    Now the school should file a counter claim against his parents! Why should the taxpayers have to foot the bill for this frivolous complaint?

    • Mahendra Singh says

      May 19, 2017 at 7:17 pm

      Good idea. These termites will flee to their paradise called Somalia.

  5. Islam the religion of killers says

    May 19, 2017 at 4:52 pm

    Look at all the attention & loot Ahmed Mohamed got out of a clock, most of us get an annoying noise that makes us get up & out of a nice warm bed …

  6. Davidka says

    May 19, 2017 at 5:33 pm

    It was not a “homemade alarm clock.” Mohamed bought an alarm clock, disasembled it, then reassembled the parts in a box to resemble a bomb. Mohamed ought to be called “Bomb Boy,” not “Clock Boy.”

  7. Halal Bacon says

    May 19, 2017 at 5:37 pm

    but, but, muslims don’t need facts you islamophobic judge

  8. PRCS says

    May 19, 2017 at 5:51 pm

    Re: the lawsuit.

    Boom!

  9. mccode says

    May 19, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    I seem to recall that Clock-Daddy moved the family from Texas to a Middle Eastern country of choice after the fanfare died down, claiming that the clan had been ‘discriminated’ against and vilified, only to return to the USA when it seemed the green grass of Far-Off-Istan wasn’t so luscious after all.

    I suppose the lawsuit was an attempt to recoup some of the moving expenses……

  10. gravenimage says

    May 19, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    Federal judge dismisses “Clock Boy” lawsuit: school didn’t target him because he was Muslim
    ……………………….

    *Excellent* news. Kudos to the judge.

  11. billybob says

    May 19, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    While this is good news, it may not be over yet. The lawyer should have, and would have known that he/she needs facts to base a claim on, and didn’t supply them. However, a well known lawyer trick is to reduce the specifics to the minimum necessary to gain a trial, to give the other side as little as possible up front to prepare for. The lawyer on the side of Clock Boy miscalculated, thinking he could bamboozle the judge in this day and age where the word “Islamophobia” is more magical than “abracadabra” to get your way. He has now found that the judge cannot be so easily manipulated and may file again, this time conjuring up some “facts” sufficient to get a trial.

    btw: Speaking of the power of charges of “Islamophobia”, have you been following the San Diego school’s campaign designed to counter that ‘condition’? They developed a program in conjunction with CAIR to put them on the leading edge of combating “Islamophobia” in schools (groan). San Diego residents, however, can see right through that and have been turning up at school board meetings in droves to try to dissuade them from this folly Just paste this search term into YouTube search bar: “san diego school board meeting”.

    • gravenimage says

      May 19, 2017 at 6:23 pm

      Good to hear about the pushback from parents in San Diego. Thanks.

  12. John A. Marre says

    May 19, 2017 at 6:17 pm

    The brat and his dad need to apologize, then get out of the country.

  13. Karen says

    May 19, 2017 at 6:54 pm

    Finally. Our darling inventor’s 15 minutes of fame seem to be ticking down, and may be nearly over. I’m sure his attention-hungry dad will do his best to drag it out, though.

  14. somehistory says

    May 19, 2017 at 6:56 pm

    Good for the judge and his understanding of the law.

    And, it was not a “home made” alarm clock. The “home made” part was to make it look like part of a bomb…in order to terrorize the staff and students of the school.

  15. abad says

    May 19, 2017 at 7:13 pm

    Good for the judge.

    The problem with Muslims is they are not aware that many of their actions are considered extremely threatening by non-Muslims.

    • gravenimage says

      May 19, 2017 at 10:55 pm

      Oh, I think they know–and they like it that way. Islam is all about coercion, threats, and violence.

      • bipedant says

        May 20, 2017 at 1:18 am

        The kafir MUST submit

  16. Northern Virginiastan says

    May 19, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    Clock Boy is a twerp and his family is a bunch of grifters.

    • bipedant says

      May 20, 2017 at 1:16 am

      The kafir MUST submit

  17. Beagle says

    May 19, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    For once, well done US legal system. I was very concerned the family might turn this con into a big payday. Schools are overreacting to Pop Tarts. But something which reasonably looks like a bomb component is OK? Thankfully, no.

    Schools have to have some latitude to be wrong in order to err on the side of safety. In the realm of errors, being concerned about a mysterious timing device is not even close to being a big one.

  18. tknightfield says

    May 19, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    Sorry “Crock-Boy” you and your grifter family’s frivolous, contrived lawsuit didn’t pay-off. Now get your ass to the Islamic turd pile of your choice and don’t let the door hit you where Allah split you.

    • Carolyne says

      May 20, 2017 at 11:32 am

      And take that foul odor of Islam with you.

  19. Jesse Duke says

    May 20, 2017 at 12:18 am

    The teacher should have been applauded for considering first the safety and wellbeing of students and staff, Islam only has itself to blame for creating a climate where, in this case, a teacher was forced to make judgments based on presented material (the clock apparartus) that looked a potential threat to public safety. His choice to present that clock in the manner he did was no inspiring act of creative brilliance, rather, it was a crude piece using assembled, pre existing components, that to all intents and purposses was indeed bomb like in appearance. As for the family gunning for 15 Million compensation, what the hell were they planning to do with all that, establish a global digital clock empire…?

  20. Sarah says

    May 20, 2017 at 3:13 am

    The smug little twat knew exactly what would happen when he strolled into school in TEXAS in the UNITED STATES carting that ridiculous clock along with him. Smug and arrogant.But he is a Muslim. They are raised from birth to be smug and arrogant – after all, according to that black hole of depravity that they call a Prophet – they’re all inherently superior beings anyways.

    I heard he and his useless family packed up and moved to Saudi Arabia. Not sure why the father would go there – apart from the fact that the family are clearly typical hardline Muslims. After all, their skin colour isn’t exactly viewed with any superiority in SA. Let them rot there.

  21. Max Publius says

    May 20, 2017 at 7:49 am

    If he were an adult, this snotty smug kid would be in jail for a fake bomb scare and causing public panic. Add on time for political intent making it terrorism.

  22. John A. Marre says

    May 20, 2017 at 8:45 am

    Ya think maybe this kid’s dad made a call to the Obama White House before the kid tried this trick?

  23. davej says

    May 20, 2017 at 1:26 pm

    The school authorities did not “discriminate” against him, they took normal action in the face of provocation and a possibly real threat. However he and his family did discriminate against the school, police and all the infidel other children. There should be a counter suit for knowingly making a credible bomb threat. And deportation for being smug assholes.

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