See <http://pjmedia.com/blog/barack-obamas-half-clocked-tale-of-islamophobia/>
Kid brings a suspicious looking electronic device to school and plugs it in. Teachers are rightly (IMO) concerned. I mean, look at it. What’s going on here? Kid says it’s a “clock”.
His “clock” has no face, no apparent readout. Analysis shows it to be parts of a digital clock which parts he has rearranged. Not everything is identifiable. Might it be explosive? And if it is a clock, aren’t clocks often used as trigger devices? Why is he bringing this strange looking clock to school? What about the pictured device is not suspicious?
Mohamed claims this to be an “invention”. Apparently, Ahmed would say nothing about his device except that it is a clock. Seriously. He “invented” a clock with no apparent readout of any kind and it needs to be plugged in. Quite a breakthrough.
Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, says that his son has been singled out because of his race and religion. What a ninny. This looks like a case of harassment all right, not of Ahmed, but of Ahmed messing with his school, screwing with the system so as to be able to claim “Islamophobia”. If Peter Wilson had brought this to school, teachers would have been just as concerned.
Ahmed, said to be a tinkerer, had never before brought any of his gizmos to school and the first one he decides to bring looks suspiciously like a bomb. Good call, Ahmed.
And Obama tweets: “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?” There’s another ninny. Has Obama actually seen the clock? On what basis does he call it “cool“? Take one look at the device and tell me that the teachers were not right to be concerned based solely on its (not Ahmed’s) appearance. Since Ahmed was either unable or unwilling to demonstrate his “clock”, why would teachers be wrong to treat this device with suspicion?
More importantly, if a student brought such a device to class, were permitted to plug it in and it later exploded, would not school officials be blamed for not doing their jobs?!? So it didn’t explode. Why are we chastising officials for doing the job they would have been blamed for not doing it it had exploded?
Ask yourself this: If the English teacher had not known who brought this device to class, if (s)he had simply discovered it plugged in at the back of the room during class, do you think the reaction would have been different? Would (s)he have blithely ignored it as hawkers of “Islamophobia” would have us believe?
I suspect that, if the school had been equipped with metal detectors and armed guards, this “clock” would have been stopped at the door. In this day and age, we are trained to be suspicious of strange, dangerous looking objects. Ahmed exercised extreme bad judgement. Mohamed Mohamed is just making things worse by claiming victimhood for his son’s bad judgement and bringing in lawyers and professional victim representatives to stir the pot.
Shame on Ahmed Mohamed. Shame on Mohamed Mohamed. Shame on Obama and every other person trying to turn treating a suspicious device suspiciously into a racial or religious issue.