14 year-old Muslim teen builds clock, shows teachers, and gets arrested for it.

That's great, but that didn't look like any clock I've ever seen. It was a bunch of exposed wires in a briefcase. Arresting the kid was obviously idiotic, but so is acting like he just built up a clock as we are all used to seeing them.

Apparently he showed it to his engineering teacher, who told him not to show anybody, but the beeping alarm went off in another class. He is a skinny little science geek.

The teacher in that class demanded to look at it because it was distracting and the police were called. The police refused to see that it was a clock and arrested him and questioned him, apparently because of his name... Ahmed Mohhamed or something. If the teachers were armed I wouldn't be shocked if they killed on the spot.

This is what my friend told me at least.

welcome to texas! wrote:

Yes, if this kid was white the teachers would have been "that's great!"

No they wouldn't. White kids get arrested all the time by school "zero tolerance" policies for the pettiest shit, and it doesn't make news. Please stop believing the narratives the media sells you.

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

welcome to texas! wrote:

Yes, if this kid was white the teachers would have been "that's great!"

No they wouldn't. White kids get arrested all the time by school "zero tolerance" policies for the pettiest shit, and it doesn't make news. Please stop believing the narratives the media sells you.

My experiences trumps your bs talk radio talking points. Thanks but stfu white boi

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

welcome to texas! wrote:

Yes, if this kid was white the teachers would have been "that's great!"

No they wouldn't. White kids get arrested all the time by school "zero tolerance" policies for the pettiest shit, and it doesn't make news. Please stop believing the narratives the media sells you.

There are states that wanted to make it legal to pull people over if they looked like an illegal alien. We're not talking informal stuff... legit unconstitutional police state shit.

How many white kids would fall under that? None.

You live in a bubble.

welcome to texas! wrote:

That's right, a nerdy kid who happened to be Muslim made a clock at home and he got arrested for it when he showed it to his teachers.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html

Yes, if this kid was white the teachers would have been "that's great!" But since he is Muslim, he is obviously a terrorist.

Perhaps the best part is that he was wearing a "NASA" t-shirt when they walked him out in cuffs. Major threat to society right there.

Fcking Texas.

You are making claims that should have your post deleted. He was not targeted for race or color or religion. The teacher did her job. I remember the rules that teachers had to report kindergartners who drew weapons on their papers and take them up as evidence thanks to the Columbine shootings.

TEXAS say F U.

welcome to texas! wrote:

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

No they wouldn't. White kids get arrested all the time by school "zero tolerance" policies for the pettiest shit, and it doesn't make news. Please stop believing the narratives the media sells you.

My experiences trumps your bs talk radio talking points. Thanks but stfu white boi

Did your welfare motha clean your Che Guevara tee shirt last night ?

A brown guy wrote:

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

No they wouldn't. White kids get arrested all the time by school "zero tolerance" policies for the pettiest shit, and it doesn't make news. Please stop believing the narratives the media sells you.

There are states that wanted to make it legal to pull people over if they looked like an illegal alien. We're not talking informal stuff... legit unconstitutional police state shit.

How many white kids would fall under that? None.

You live in a bubble.

Here idiot, just today, the White House went on lockdown because of a coffee cup.

How would you like your coffee politicized today?

Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

A brown guy wrote:

There are states that wanted to make it legal to pull people over if they looked like an illegal alien. We're not talking informal stuff... legit unconstitutional police state shit.

How many white kids would fall under that? None.

You live in a bubble.

Here idiot, just today, the White House went on lockdown because of a coffee cup.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237407/White-House-briefly-lock-scare-unattended-package.html

How would you like your coffee politicized today?

That's the best you could do?

welcome to 2015 wrote:

That's great, but that didn't look like any clock I've ever seen. It was a bunch of exposed wires in a briefcase. Arresting the kid was obviously idiotic, but so is acting like he just built up a clock as we are all used to seeing them.

Exactly

The news is making out like he went to the teacher and said here is my clock. The reality is he went to a different class and then the thing started beeping. It looks feck all like a clock

Blame the people placing bombs all over the world to kill civilians not the over reaction to it

A brown guy wrote:

How many white kids would fall under that? None.

And how many white kids would be illegal aliens?

None.

Why should the police waste time just to follow some crazy pc rules?

welcome to texas! wrote:

That's right, a nerdy kid who happened to be Muslim made a clock at home and he got arrested for it when he showed it to his teachers.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html

Yes, if this kid was white the teachers would have been "that's great!" But since he is Muslim, he is obviously a terrorist.

Perhaps the best part is that he was wearing a "NASA" t-shirt when they walked him out in cuffs. Major threat to society right there.

Fcking Texas.

I found it interesting yesterday when reading about this that none of the articles showed a picture of the clock.

Finally found a picture of it today (buried at the bottom of the story). Surprise, surprise ... it looks more like a bomb than a clock!!!

A white person would have been treated the same. Remember the white boy who was disciplined for drawing a picture of a gun? We now live in a society where we don't take any chances.

Ahmed's creation did not look like a clock. It was a circuit board and a bunch of wires in a brief case...a lot like the bombs you see in movies and TV shows.

Putting him in handcuffs was a bit extreme but the police questioning him is what she should expect regardless of his race.

How did you know he's Muslim? Oh that's right ... they are killed if they aren't Muslim.

But don't worry - none of them mean us any harm.

Putting it in a metal briefcase didn't help his case either...

There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career “terrorism experts” in the U.S. that profit greatly by deliberately exaggerating the threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear of “radical Islam.” There are all sorts of polemicists who build their public platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over “Islamaphobia,” with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thing does not even exist, even as the mere presence of mosques is opposed across the country, or even as they are physically attacked.

The U.S. government just formally renewed the “State of Emergency” it declared in the aftermath of 9/11 for the 14th time since that attack occurred, ensuring that the country remains in a state of permanent, endless war, subjected to powers that are still classified as “extraordinary” even though they have become entirely normalized. As a result of all of this, a minority group of close to 3 million people is routinely targeted with bigotry and legal persecution in the Home of the Free, while fear and hysteria reign supreme in the Land of the Brave.

What happened in Irving, Texas, yesterday to a 14-year-old Muslim high school freshman is far from the worst instance, but it is highly illustrative of the rotted fruit of this sustained climate of cultivated fear and demonization. The Dallas Morning News reports that “Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High,” but “instead, the school phoned police.”

Despite insisting that he made the clock to impress his engineering teacher, consistent with his long-time interest in “inventing stuff,” Ahmed was arrested by the police and led out of school with his hands cuffed behind him. When he was brought into the room to be questioned by the four police officers who had been dispatched to the school, one of them — who had never previously seen him — said: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.” As a result, he “felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name — one of the most common in the Muslim religion.”

There’s absolutely no evidence that this was anything more than a clock, nor any indication of any kind that the talented and inventive freshman built it as anything other than a school project. But even now, “police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock.” According to the BBC, “police spokesman James McLellan said that, throughout the interview, Ahmed had maintained that he built only a clock, but said the boy was unable to give a ‘broader explanation’ as to what it would be used for.”

The behavior here is nothing short of demented. And it’s easy to mock, which in turn has the effect of belittling it and casting it as some sort of bizarre aberration. But it’s not that. It’s the opposite of aberrational. It’s the natural, inevitable byproduct of the culture of fear and demonization that has festered and been continuously inflamed for many years. The circumstances that led to this are systemic and cultural, not aberrational.

The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, became a beloved national hero to America’s anti-Muslim fanatics when, last February, she seized on a fraudulent online chain letter, which claimed that area imams had created a special court based on sharia law. In response, Mayor Van Duyne posted a Facebook rant in which she vowed to “fight with every fiber of my being” the nonexistent “sharia court.” One anti-Muslim website gushed that Irving “is being called ‘ground zero’ in the battle to prevent Islamic law from gaining a foothold, no matter how small, in the U.S. legal system” and hailed her as “the mayor who stood up to the Muslim Brotherhood.”

That led to support for a bill introduced in the Texas State Legislature banning the use of foreign law, which its sponsor made clear was targeted at least in part at these “sharia courts.” The Irving City Council went out of its way to enact a resolution supporting the state bill. It was enacted in June. One of the City Council members who opposed the bill — William “Bill” Mahone, who “denounced the vote and urged Irving to ’embrace the Muslims'” — then lost his seat in the city election “by a wide margin.” I’ve spoken to Muslim groups in Irving and there is a small but thriving community there, which in turn has produced intense anti-Muslim animus.

Just like Ahmed’s arrest, Irving is representative of the U.S. broadly, not aberrational. The U.S. just a few years ago went into a shameful fit of mass hysteria over a proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero — as though Muslims generally were guilty of that attack — but since then, in obscurity, ordinary mosques have faced all sorts of opposition from their mere existence, or once they do exist, physical menacing and violence. A 2014 Pew Poll found that Americans feel more negatively toward Muslims than any other religious group in the country.

There are all sorts of obvious, extreme harms that come from being a nation at permanent war. Your country ends up killing huge numbers of innocent people all over the world. Vast resources are drained away from individuals and programs of social good into the pockets of weapons manufacturers. Core freedoms are inexorably and inevitably eroded — seized — in its name. The groups being targeted are marginalized and demonized in order to maximize fear levels and tolerance for violence.

But perhaps the worst of all harms is how endless war degrades the culture and populace of the country that perpetrates it. You can’t have a government that has spent decades waging various forms of war against predominantly Muslim countries — bombing seven of them in the last six years alone — and then act surprised when a Muslim 14-year-old triggers vindictive fear and persecution because he makes a clock for school. That’s no more surprising than watching carrots sprout after you plant carrot seeds in fertile ground and then carefully water them. It’s natural and inevitable, not surprising or at all difficult to understand.

Glenn Greenwald

quote]Liberalism = a mental disorder wrote:

White kids get arrested all the time by school "zero tolerance" policies for the pettiest shit, and it doesn't make news. Please stop believing the narratives the media sells you.[/quote]

Below are seven students, not named Mohamed, who got off scot-free for the heinous crime of DIY timekeeping, plus a bonus kid who brought an actual inert bomb to school and wasn’t suspended. (Mohamed got three days.)

Peter Mathis of Wilmington, North Carolina

Another student who likes clocks made a clock of his own. Peter Mattis of Gregory elementary wanted to make a clock more complex than a sundial, so he made his own liquid clock.

The clock drips green fluid into a container to mark the hour. And while Peter doesn’t use the clock to tell time at home because it tells time by hours instead of minutes, he can think of one situation where the clock would come in handy: a hurricane.

—Wilmington Morning Star, March 10, 1999

Haley Zinke and Tasha Williams of Turtle Lake, North Dakota

Haley Zinke and Tasha Williams researched whether or not water clocks kept accurate time. They built their own clock for the project and demonstration.

—McLean County Journal, May 22, 2014

Logan Weimer of Holland, Ohio

During the Holloway Elementary School science fair last week, kids crowded around Logan’s exhibit as he explained how he used veggie power to keep track of time.

“I tried to get an alarm clock to come on with no batteries,” Logan explained, pointing to copper wires and chunks of potato and lemons. Citric acid in the lemon kept the clock working for hours, but the potato “spuddered” out rather quickly.

However, he said he was really happy with his experiment because “if the power goes out, I will get to school on time.”

—Toledo Blade, March 22, 2007

Indy Brumbraugh and Cesar Limas of Dade City, Florida

Indy Brumbraugh and Cesar Limas also worked together on their “Clock-o-matic,” an alarm clock that squirts water on those not-so-early risers.

“I wake up late and my mom and dad wake up late, so I was thinking of an idea to wake them up early,” Cesar said.

—St. Petersburg Times, December 15, 1999

Tori Clark of Ellis, Kansas

“I didn’t know anything about building,” said senior Tori Clark, the only girl in the class of 14. “I built a clock in (Carroll’s) industrial tech class last year, and he’s a good teacher so I decided to try this.”

It was a good decision, Clark said.

“My dad said he wishes he would have had something like this when he was in school,” she said.

—Hays Daily News, December 5, 2010

Plus, here’s an anonymous kid in Kiowa, Colorado who brought an actual inert bomb and wasn’t suspended (his teacher was)

A high school student’s science project was meant to demonstrate how heat is involved in transferring energy. But because the project was an inert bomb, the student and his teacher are taking some heat of their own.

The bomb, made with fertilizer and diesel in a test tube, was displayed last week at a science fair with traditional experiments when an anonymous caller alerted the authorities. The bomb was made with the approval of the 17-year-old student’s teacher.

...

The student, whose name officials refused to release, remains in school and will not be disciplined by the school, because he had his teacher’s approval for the project.

Big difference between confiscation and discipline vs. arresting.

Mofong wrote:

Big difference between confiscation and discipline vs. arresting.

No idea what you are talking about