9th Grade Muslim student arrested for making a homemade clock fro school project

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I took the back off of my TV and brought it to a school I'm sure someone would think it looked "unusual" too.

Do you keep your plastic explosive in the back of your TV too? The only C-4 a 14-year old is going to get his hands on is from an undercover FBI agent.

I think that poster's point is that his TV doesn't have any C-4. Hence, while his TV will look unusual, it will not be likely to explode.

[Anonymous]

https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/16/liberals-making-istandwithahmed-about-ra/email


Great article-not everything is about race or religion-it just is what it is!

[Anonymous]

Just another example of liberalism run amok in public schools. OMG, a bomb!!! Call the police, they will save us!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/16/liberals-making-istandwithahmed-about-ra/email


Great article-not everything is about race or religion-it just is what it is!

Great? You sure set the bar awfully low. Pedestrian fodder for libertarian wingnut pseudointellectuals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/16/liberals-making-istandwithahmed-about-ra/email


Great article-not everything is about race or religion-it just is what it is!

Exactly correct. The school has intimate knowledge of this kid and whether or not he was an outlier or a troublemaker. From what I've read, there's nothing to indicate that. The school administrators were the ones who called the police because they saw this as a suspicious device. Evaluating such a device was either (a) out of their league (which is scary on its own) or (b) not even considered. I am VERY confident both my son's and my daughter's private would not have gone this route.

Once the police were called in, they had no choice but to take this very seriously. The average officer is not an explosives expert. Like it or not, it IS Muslim extremists that have posed a threat to our country. Irving has had its share of issues in this regard - they want a Sharia court and there is much animosity over not getting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/16/liberals-making-istandwithahmed-about-ra/email


Great article-not everything is about race or religion-it just is what it is!

Exactly correct. The school has intimate knowledge of this kid and whether or not he was an outlier or a troublemaker. From what I've read, there's nothing to indicate that. The school administrators were the ones who called the police because they saw this as a suspicious device. Evaluating such a device was either (a) out of their league (which is scary on its own) or (b) not even considered. I am VERY confident both my son's and my daughter's private would not have gone this route.

Once the police were called in, they had no choice but to take this very seriously. The average officer is not an explosives expert. Like it or not, it IS Muslim extremists that have posed a threat to our country. Irving has had its share of issues in this regard - they want a Sharia court and there is much animosity over not getting it.

They figured that out in 3 weeks? He's brand new to the school.

And stop spreading rumors about sharia court. That was a lie from the beginning (it's a non-binding mediation service offered in Dallas), even if the stupid mayor took it and ran with her islamaphobic rants.

[Anonymous]

"Nobody at the school knows enough about explosives"

"The police aren't explosives experts"

With all of the collective insights of all of these grown up authorities, they still aren't as smart as one ninth grader.

That doesn't say much for the school system or the police department...

It never so much as occurred to a single one of them that for it to be a bomb, it actually has to have a bomb attached to it?

[Anonymous]

It did occur to everyone that this wasn't a bomb.

However, because it had wires they thought that it was something intended to LOOK like a bomb.

They thought the boy was going to hide it somewhere and fake people out to make them scared, i.e. "what was your point in bringing this to school?"

The boy's response ( "It's a clock I made myself, I wanted to show my teachers how I made something out of electronic equipment") just didn't seem believable to the police officers, who kept pressuring him (without his parents present) to admit he had a more sinister purpose (i.e. he made a hoax bomb to scare people)

[Anonymous]

They arrested that kid b/c he was Muslim. The teacher, administrators and police offices needs to be fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Nobody at the school knows enough about explosives"

"The police aren't explosives experts"

With all of the collective insights of all of these grown up authorities, they still aren't as smart as one ninth grader.

That doesn't say much for the school system or the police department...

It never so much as occurred to a single one of them that for it to be a bomb, it actually has to have a bomb attached to it?

It especially doesn't say much for the shitbag teacher, who wet her pants at the first sight of a circuit board with wires emanating from it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just another example of liberalism run amok in public schools. OMG, a bomb!!! Call the police, they will save us!!!

[Anonymous]

It did occur to everyone that this wasn't a bomb.

However, because it had wires they thought that it was something intended to LOOK like a bomb.

They thought the boy was going to hide it somewhere and fake people out to make them scared, i.e. "what was your point in bringing this to school?"

The boy's response ( "It's a clock I made myself, I wanted to show my teachers how I made something out of electronic equipment") just didn't seem believable to the police officers, who kept pressuring him (without his parents present) to admit he had a more sinister purpose (i.e. he made a hoax bomb to scare people)
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You are missing the point....he is not white and he is a Muslim. Here is Texas that means you are guilty. He is a terrorist and terrorists will not tell you they have a bomb b/c ...they are tricky. He most likely had training(maybe from the Internet) on how to resist police interrogation. We need to adopt the techniques employed in N Korea...his whole family should be in a camp....to be safe the whole school should be arrested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It did occur to everyone that this wasn't a bomb.

However, because it had wires they thought that it was something intended to LOOK like a bomb.

They thought the boy was going to hide it somewhere and fake people out to make them scared, i.e. "what was your point in bringing this to school?"

The boy's response ( "It's a clock I made myself, I wanted to show my teachers how I made something out of electronic equipment") just didn't seem believable to the police officers, who kept pressuring him (without his parents present) to admit he had a more sinister purpose (i.e. he made a hoax bomb to scare people)

The engineering/science teacher told him to put it away and not get it out in school. It later beeped in English class. Wires and circuit boards making a homemade beeping timer object in a briefcase is just not something to bring to school. He was building a clock but it didn't look like a clock. What if the thing was on the street in DC [ie area cordoned off with police and bomb squads and building evacuated] or in the airport? Announcements always ask to report suspicious packages.

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/

I feel badly for this student. Students have been suspended for small plastic squirt guns. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/dc/st-albans-on-lockdown.html Suitcase bomb video hoax on a stranger in Florida http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hitman-prank-lands-filmmaker-jail-bomb-hoax-charge-article-1.1115961

[Anonymous]

The problem I have with the pop tart and toy gun comparisons is that those kids weren't doing something positive or of educational value like this kid. Nor were they as severely mistreated as Ahmed. The pop tart kid was disruptive and had a long history of behavior issues.

That kids called him a terrorist and bomb-maker in middle school to insult him truly breaks my heart. Glad there is somewhat of ahappy ending, although I'm still wondering why the suspension was not overturned or apology issued.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/16/liberals-making-istandwithahmed-about-ra/email


Great article-not everything is about race or religion-it just is what it is!

Exactly correct. The school has intimate knowledge of this kid and whether or not he was an outlier or a troublemaker. From what I've read, there's nothing to indicate that. The school administrators were the ones who called the police because they saw this as a suspicious device. Evaluating such a device was either (a) out of their league (which is scary on its own) or (b) not even considered. I am VERY confident both my son's and my daughter's private would not have gone this route.

Once the police were called in, they had no choice but to take this very seriously. The average officer is not an explosives expert. Like it or not, it IS Muslim extremists that have posed a threat to our country. Irving has had its share of issues in this regard - they want a Sharia court and there is much animosity over not getting it.

They figured that out in 3 weeks? He's brand new to the school.

And stop spreading rumors about sharia court. That was a lie from the beginning (it's a non-binding mediation service offered in Dallas), even if the stupid mayor took it and ran with her islamaphobic rants.

Did he come from another U.S. school?