We all know by now the whole #IStandWithAhmed about the Muslim boy who brought a science project to school and was arrested for being Muslim. The story is that he brought a homemade clock the school and since he was Muslim people assumed it was a bomb. People are outraged at the school for it's racism. However now the story is starting to fall apart.
People are outraged that the police didn't release Ahmed once they realized it wasn't a bomb. However that is not why he was arrested. He was arrested on suspicion of making a fake bomb, with intention of looking like it was. As a reminder, here is Ahmed's "clock".
Anyone with eyes knows that looks nothing like a clock ? The police didn't buy it either. Here is the officer:
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He said in an interview on CNN that officers assigned to MacArthur High School had determined “fairly quickly” that the device was not a bomb. Then the issue, he said, was to determine why Ahmed had brought the device to school.
“What they were investigating was whether he brought a device to school with the intention of creating alarm,” Chief Boyd said.
I found the highest resolution photograph of the clock I could. Instantly, I was disappointed. Somewhere in all of this – there has indeed been a hoax. Ahmed Mohamed didn’t invent his own alarm clock. He didn’t even build a clock. Now, before I go on and get accused of attacking a 14 year old kid who’s already been through enough, let me explain my purpose. I don’t want to just dissect the clock. I want to dissect our reaction as a society to the situation. Part of that is the knee-jerk responses we’re all so quick to make without facts. So, before you scroll down and leave me angry comments, please continue to the end (or not – prove my point, and miss the point, entirely!)
He literally bought a clock from the store and put in a pencil case. He didn't even need to put in a case.
More facts. According to this interview with Mark Cuban, who spoke to Ahmed, the boy showed his engineering teacher the clock, who then told him not to show it to anyone (since it looked like a bomb). He instead took to five different teachers until his English teacher caught him and alerted the authorities. When Mark questioned him on how he built the clock, HIS SISTER WAS TELLING HIM WHAT TO SAY ON THE PHONE. Mark also mentioned Ahmed was suspiciously uncooperative with the police.
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But then you ask, why Ahmed intentionally made a hoax bomb and take it to school? Looks like it was all a political stunt from his father. A politician and political activist with a history of anti-Islam-ophobia grand standing.
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The ninth grader is the son of Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, a Sudanese immigrant who has made headlines of his own over the years......Mohamed has also run for president of Sudan on two separate occasions......He’d run again in 2015 on a National Reform Party ticket. An April 2015 Bloomberg report referred to the Texan as having “the most ambitious agenda” of the incumbent President Umar al-Bashir’s competitors. The article mentions that the would-be Sudanese president pledged that within 100 days of being elected he would negotiate the lifting of sanctions the U.S. imposed in the late 1990s because of alleged sponsorship of terrorism.
Even more concerning is something that was going on in the town. Apparently, the Mayor/City Council of Irving, Texas (where Clock Boy lives) in March, had discovered that the Muslim community had set-up an illegal Sharia Law Tribunal. The Muslim community demanded that the Mayor apologize after she had determined that Sharia Law was foreign to Texas and inapplicable to state law. For some reason they thought she was being disrespectful.
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This radical group of Muslims is not pleased with the Mayor of Irving, Texas after she put the end to America’s first “Sharia Court.” Mayor Beth Van Duyne has accused mosque leaders of creating separate laws for Muslims, which is why the city voted to stop these supposedly “voluntary” tribunals from operating.
In a very close 5-4 vote, the city of Irving ruled to back the Texas state bill banning foreign law from the state. The bill doesn’t mention Sharia or any religion, but it’s a huge defeat for Sharia supporters, as such courts are in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
This was all a set up I guess to increase public sympathy for Islam and maybe even to bring Sharia law to Texas while giving publicity to his politician father. It could even be a test run to see how easy it would be to get bombs into schools (since asking if something is a bomb is racist). Obama, MIT, NASA, and everyone in the liberal media fell for this hook line and sinker. Ahmed made nothing, and his father intentionally put his son in this stunt to drum up pro Islam sentiment. The clock was never meant to look like a clock it was always a faux bomb.
I wonder if Clock Boy will be rearrested soon, as well as his father and returns the thousands in dollars in gifts. I guess America isn't so racist after all.
Girl shut up with your nonsense. That boy was arrested because he was brown and a muslim. He deserves all the good things happening to him. Stop trying to derail it with stupid theories.
Girl shut up with your nonsense. That boy was arrested because he was brown and a muslim. He deserves all the good things happening to him. Stop trying to derail it with stupid theories.
Girl shut up with your nonsense. That boy was arrested because he was brown and a muslim. He deserves all the good things happening to him. Stop trying to derail it with stupid theories.
He didn't build the clock. That's not theory, it's a fact.