Post: #1

Teenage boy has been criminalized for using science and tech skills. His male teacher thought it was cool, his female teacher decided to get the police involved. He's wearing a fucking NASA shirt, of course it's a clock and not a bomb! The MSM totally missed the point here, it's not about his religion, it's about some bitch who can't understand that a young boy might be capable of something they aren't. Hopefully this shit doesn't discourage boys from tinkering and experimenting.

Quote:Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers.

Instead, he got arrested.

In an incident that has raised allegations of racism and made a Texas school district the target of online outrage, the ninth-grader was pulled out of school in handcuffs after a digital clock he built himself was mistaken for a bomb.

On Wednesday, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said that Mohamed would not be charged with any wrongdoing.

“We have no evidence to support that there was an intention to create alarm or cause people to be concerned,” Boyd said during a news conference after news of Mohamed’s arrest prompted a national outcry.

Mohamed, a self-assured kid with thick-framed glasses and a serious expression, had just started at MacArthur High School a few weeks ago. The Irving, Tex., ninth-grader has a talent for tinkering — he constructs his own radios and once built a Bluetooth speaker as a gift for his friend — and he wanted to show his new teachers what he could do. So on Sunday night, he quickly put together a homemade digital clock (“just something small,” as he casually put it to the Dallas Morning News: a circuit board and power supply connected to a digital display) and proudly offered it to his engineering teacher the next day.

But the teacher looked wary.

“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”

During English class, the clock beeped, annoying his teacher. When he brought the device up to her afterward, she told him “it looks like a bomb,” according to Mohamed.

“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me,'” he told the Dallas Morning News.

But the English teacher kept the clock, and during sixth period, Mohamed was pulled out of class by the principal.

“They took me to a room filled with five officers in which they interrogated me and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention,” the teen said. “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”

But his questioner responded, “It looks like a movie bomb to me.”

Mohamed told NBC-Dallas Fort Worth that he was taken to police headquarters, handcuffed and fingerprinted.

During questioning, officers repeatedly brought up his last name, Mohamed said. When he tried to call his father, Mohamed said he was told he couldn’t speak to his parents until after the interrogation was over.

“I really don’t think it’s fair because I brought something to school that wasn’t a threat to anyone,” Mohamed told NBC. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something, and I end up being arrested later that day.”

Asked about why Mohamed was not permitted to call his parents while being questioned by police, Irving chief Boyd said he did “not have answers to your specific question” about the allegation.

In a statement to the TV station, Irving Independent School District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver declined to discuss the case, though she confirmed that a MacArthur High School student was arrested on campus.

“We always ask our students and staff to immediately report if they observe any suspicious items and/or suspicious behavior,” she wrote. “If something is out of the ordinary, the information should be reported immediately to a school administrator and/or the police so it can be addressed right away. We will always take necessary precautions to protect our students and keep our school community as safe as possible.”

NBC-DFW reported that a police report released Tuesday cites a “hoax bomb” incident, listing three MacArthur High teachers as complainants against Mohamed.

Irving Police Officer James McLellan told the TV station that school officials were worried about the device.

“Clearly, there were disassembled clock parts in there, but he offered no more explanation than that,” McLellan said. “A lot of these details that the family and he have provided to you were not shared with us yesterday. He was very much less than forthcoming.”
McLellan told the Dallas Morning News that Mohamed never claimed the device was anything other than a clock. But school staff and police officers remained suspicious.

“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car,” McLellan said. “The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”

Mohamed’s family said that the teen has been suspended from school for three days.
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As for Ahmed — he’s a little taken aback by all the attention, Ibrahim said. And still wrestling with the memory of handcuffs encircling his thin, 14-year-old wrists.

“It made me feel like I wasn’t human,” he said in a video interview. “It made me feel like a criminal.”

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Post: #2

(09-16-2015 04:34 PM)Osiris Wrote:  Teenage boy has been criminalized for using science and tech skills. His male teacher thought it was cool, his female teacher decided to get the police involved. He's wearing a fucking NASA shirt, of course it's a clock and not a bomb! The MSM totally missed the point here, it's not about his religion, it's about some bitch who can't understand that a young boy might be capable of something they aren't. Hopefully this shit doesn't discourage boys from tinkering and experimenting.

Quote:Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers.

Instead, he got arrested.

In an incident that has raised allegations of racism and made a Texas school district the target of online outrage, the ninth-grader was pulled out of school in handcuffs after a digital clock he built himself was mistaken for a bomb.

On Wednesday, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said that Mohamed would not be charged with any wrongdoing.

“We have no evidence to support that there was an intention to create alarm or cause people to be concerned,” Boyd said during a news conference after news of Mohamed’s arrest prompted a national outcry.

Mohamed, a self-assured kid with thick-framed glasses and a serious expression, had just started at MacArthur High School a few weeks ago. The Irving, Tex., ninth-grader has a talent for tinkering — he constructs his own radios and once built a Bluetooth speaker as a gift for his friend — and he wanted to show his new teachers what he could do. So on Sunday night, he quickly put together a homemade digital clock (“just something small,” as he casually put it to the Dallas Morning News: a circuit board and power supply connected to a digital display) and proudly offered it to his engineering teacher the next day.

But the teacher looked wary.

“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”

During English class, the clock beeped, annoying his teacher. When he brought the device up to her afterward, she told him “it looks like a bomb,” according to Mohamed.

“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me,'” he told the Dallas Morning News.

But the English teacher kept the clock, and during sixth period, Mohamed was pulled out of class by the principal.

“They took me to a room filled with five officers in which they interrogated me and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention,” the teen said. “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”

But his questioner responded, “It looks like a movie bomb to me.”

Mohamed told NBC-Dallas Fort Worth that he was taken to police headquarters, handcuffed and fingerprinted.

During questioning, officers repeatedly brought up his last name, Mohamed said. When he tried to call his father, Mohamed said he was told he couldn’t speak to his parents until after the interrogation was over.

“I really don’t think it’s fair because I brought something to school that wasn’t a threat to anyone,” Mohamed told NBC. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something, and I end up being arrested later that day.”

Asked about why Mohamed was not permitted to call his parents while being questioned by police, Irving chief Boyd said he did “not have answers to your specific question” about the allegation.

In a statement to the TV station, Irving Independent School District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver declined to discuss the case, though she confirmed that a MacArthur High School student was arrested on campus.

“We always ask our students and staff to immediately report if they observe any suspicious items and/or suspicious behavior,” she wrote. “If something is out of the ordinary, the information should be reported immediately to a school administrator and/or the police so it can be addressed right away. We will always take necessary precautions to protect our students and keep our school community as safe as possible.”

NBC-DFW reported that a police report released Tuesday cites a “hoax bomb” incident, listing three MacArthur High teachers as complainants against Mohamed.

Irving Police Officer James McLellan told the TV station that school officials were worried about the device.

“Clearly, there were disassembled clock parts in there, but he offered no more explanation than that,” McLellan said. “A lot of these details that the family and he have provided to you were not shared with us yesterday. He was very much less than forthcoming.”
McLellan told the Dallas Morning News that Mohamed never claimed the device was anything other than a clock. But school staff and police officers remained suspicious.

“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car,” McLellan said. “The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”

Mohamed’s family said that the teen has been suspended from school for three days.
...

As for Ahmed — he’s a little taken aback by all the attention, Ibrahim said. And still wrestling with the memory of handcuffs encircling his thin, 14-year-old wrists.

“It made me feel like I wasn’t human,” he said in a video interview. “It made me feel like a criminal.”

Call me paranoid but with the timing of this story, it seems suspicious

Post: #3

"boy arrested for STEM skills"

That's one way to look at it, I guess.

Post: #4

I can see how some Muslim making a beeping clock could be cause for a misunderstanding but geez, everyone involved is really overdoing it on the bomb hysteria a bit. Who the fuck would even build a BEEPING bomb clock outside of a Hollywood movie?

Post: #5

If you take the skin off of any electronic device to the unaware eye it could "look like a bomb" with a circuit board, wires, capacitors, and everything else all over the place. The whole thing seems like a huge overreaction. I wouldn't be surprised if the school gets sued for discrimination and racism. I would be even less surprised if this kid wins a nice cash settlement.

Post: #6

Come back to reality and look at this from both sides.

One side: An intelligent Muslim with hopes of being an engineer builds a homemade clock from scratch and wants to show it to his teachers.

Other side: You're a teacher and you hear something beeping in class and a Muslim kid opens a lunchbox and you see circuit boards and resistors and a fucking digital clock ticking.

No one wins in this situation.

Post: #7

Delete.

Post: #8

Male Teacher: Get that it's a clock within seconds and it's nice and crafty

Female Teacher: It might be a Bomb that she kept with her until the 6th period

Wow! Hope he sues them to fund his STEM degree and afterwards thanks the female teacher for not believing him

Post: #9

Here's a picture of his clock, which is housed in an aluminum suitcase:


Here's a picture from the TV Series "24" Season 6 where a high school student named Ahmed procured a suitcase nuke that was detonated.



#IStandWithAhmed



Also, please pronounce his name properly when you are reciting his name in conversation. This is probably how it should be pronounced:





Yeah, but I really don't understand why everyone is freaking out.

Post: #10

Some people are such morons that they learn everything they know (which is usually not much, and mostly wrong) from TV. Why would a bomb beep?! Obviously that's just a trope for theatrical purposes. Why would it be hooked up to a digital clock when we have cell phones in 2015?!

Post: #11

(09-16-2015 05:04 PM)Surreyman Wrote:  Some people are such morons that they learn everything they know (which is usually not much, and mostly wrong) from TV. Why would a bomb beep?! Obviously that's just a trope for theatrical purposes. Why would it be hooked up to a digital clock when we have cell phones in 2015?!

He should be old enough realise as a brown skinned Muslim male, people might get suspicious of him and act accordingly. If I was in his shoes I would have told the school first.

I’m a brown skinned guy and I act careful in certain situations, e.g. you’ll never see me run around LAX trying to catch a flight - I’ll just walk fast.

Post: #12

(09-16-2015 05:04 PM)Surreyman Wrote:  Some people are such morons that they learn everything they know (which is usually not much, and mostly wrong) from TV. Why would a bomb beep?! Obviously that's just a trope for theatrical purposes. Why would it be hooked up to a digital clock when we have cell phones in 2015?!

I really hope you're never in charge of a bomb squad.

"It's not a real bomb you idiots, real bombs don't beep!"

Post: #13

Here's the part that gets me...

Are these people really so fucking stupid that they think real bombs fucking tick? That they ring right before they go off?

News flash. They don't. You know why? Because then people would know where the fucking bomb is and take cover before it goes off.


You know what happens when there's a real bomb? It just explodes with no warning. You know how I know? Because I've been fucking blown up. No, that one didn't tick either.

Post: #14

In a case where cooler heads should have prevailed, the principal and the English teacher deserve to be fired.

Yes brown kid should have been more careful, though the english tteacher and principal should have kept this in house and questioned the kid MINUS fucking police involvement.

When I was in highschool, I used my student ID to slide a computer lab door open so we could all play Halo during lunch. No biggie.

Well the teacher thought something was stolen and called the bigwigs in. They found me and questioned me. Sure enough nothing was stolen and they told me what I did was grounds for suspension and breaking / entering. However the head dean told the associate dean to chill out. Since I had a spotless record, good grades, and some leeway from my extracurriculars they said, "don't do it again or else!" and I was let go.

No police involvement! Seriously why do the pigs in blue need to be present for every freaking infraction. All they needed to do to Ahmed was impart on him the similarities of his "clock" and understand what was going on.

What a total shame and disgrace blown way out of proportion. The English teacher who started this mess deserves to be mocked publicly.

Post: #15

I was under the impression he came in with it and a teacher panicked. Which is a lot more understandable.

Apparently not.

Post: #16

Obama tweeted about this today.

Quote:Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

Post: #17

Bunch of idiotic morons, let's not forget this happened in Texas in a city where the mayor is a crazy eyed lady who thinks the Muslims and their sharia law are going to take over the town.

Complete overreaction, the kid had a fucking NASA shirt on.

I understand the need to investigate the "device" but all this was overkill.

I wonder how much this will handicap his creation, intelligence, and imagination.

Kids like this should flourish, not be punished.

If I was him I'd visit the white house and Facebook (Zuckerberg invited him). Shit so did Google !

Take his 15 minutes of fame and get a scholarship somewhere and get the hell out of dodge.


I can't wait for the idiotic Facebook posts claiming "Military Aged Muslim Boys are attempting to build suitcase bombs".

This is a sensitive subject since I was subjected to this when I was a kid, even in a pre 9/11 world.

Post: #18

Quote:Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers.

Instead, he got arrested.

In an incident that has raised allegations of racism and made a Texas school district the target of online outrage, the ninth-grader was pulled out of school in handcuffs after a digital clock he built himself was mistaken for a bomb.

As hilarious this may be it just shows there is no win-win situation. Too much hollywood, too much overreaction and not enough thinking.

Post: #19

Quote:Call me paranoid but with the timing of this story, it seems suspicious

It's manufactured. The father probably has come connection to a government agency or media outlet. Even if not, this is a "freebie" for the narrative and it will dominate the news to promote an immigrant agenda.

The media is salivating over the story and there's already a hashtag: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IStandWi...d&src=tyah

...which was promoted by the Post in the headline: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spea...?tid=sm_tw

And there's a connection to mega SJW Anil Dash who talked to the family (probably knows them through another SJW connection): https://twitter.com/anildash/status/6440...wsrc%5Etfw

And the White House is supporting it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spea...withahmed/

It's the top voted story on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/

Open borders Mark Zuckerburg is supporting it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPD4VxoWUAAaVa-.jpg

Basically every SJW outlet in the USA is hyping this up to the moon.

Vox reveals the true agenda in their headline: "The message Ahmed Mohamed’s school just sent: creativity isn’t for Muslim kids"
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9338557/ahm...ker-school

This is manufactured news meant to drum up sympathy for Muslims, at the same time the USA just announced that they want to bring in 100,000 of them:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/20...ian-exodus

This story is the USA version of the dead Syrian child on the beach. Look into the kid's father and you'll find a connection to the establishment.

Edit: Father is a longtime pro-Islam activist: http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9339063/ahm...-elhassan. Gave his kid a fake bomb prop to be an Islamic hero and the narrative rushed to publicize it. Shame on him for using his son to push his religious agenda.

Post: #20

(09-16-2015 06:58 PM)Roosh Wrote:  

Quote:Call me paranoid but with the timing of this story, it seems suspicious

It's manufactured. The father probably has come connection to a government agency or media outlet.

The media is salivating over the story and there's already a hashtag: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IStandWi...d&src=tyah

...which was promoted by the Post in the headline: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spea...?tid=sm_tw

And there's a connection to mega SJW to Anil Dash who talked to the family: https://twitter.com/anildash/status/6440...wsrc%5Etfw

And the White House is supporting it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spea...withahmed/

It's the top voted story on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/

Mark Zuckerburg is supporting it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPD4VxoWUAAaVa-.jpg

Basically every SJW outlet in the USA is hyping this up to the moon.

Vox reveals the true agenda in their headline: "The message Ahmed Mohamed’s school just sent: creativity isn’t for Muslim kids"
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9338557/ahm...ker-school

This is manufactured news meant to drum up sympathy for Muslim kids, at the same time the USA wants to bring in 100,000 of them.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/20...ian-exodus

I knew it, propaganda at its finest

Post: #21

Better safe than sorry. Looks like it went too far, but I'm really tired of the racial angle. Of course we should scrutinize Muslims closer in this kind of situation.

Post: #22

Additionally, consider the speed at which this story has spread to the left-wing political and ideological stars of influence.

Also, this event took place in Texas where the teacher and police are authority figures in a very, very red state.

The whole thing is suspicious. I doubt it's a hoax but its exploitation is simply too convenient.

Post: #23

What surprises me is that this kid builds a clock and is accused of building a bomb. On the other hand, a 14 year old American and a 13 year old British get to make nuclear reactors.









However, for someone like Ahmed, this may not be a bad thing in the long run. By Peter Thiel's analysis, this is the type of people who go onto being the Zero to One entrepreneur types.

Post: #24

But, but I thought America was supposed to be the home of the brave.

Post: #25

First of all, since when does wearing a god damn NASA shirt automatically indicate someone is innocent? Yes, the teachers and cops may have overreacted and mishandled the situation but given the bombings and school shootings (and their media coverage) in the States, I don't entirely blame them.

This kid was smart enough to know it might not be the best idea to show up at school with a digital clock display and electrical wires enclosed in a metal suitcase without warning anyone beforehand. He even said in an interview that he closed the case with a cable instead of locking it because he didn't want it to seem like a threat or suspicious. The kid wasn't oblivious to the similarities between his device and a bomb.

If a non-arab kid brought this type of thing to school and got arrested, people would be laughing at how much of a jackass he is. But of course, this story is blowing up on social media because he's muslim. Now with all of the support, the kid is speaking with lawyers and will probably get some type of compensation. The whole thing is just retarded.