Ahmed Mohamed, 14, had thought that he had achieved something that would garner praise at at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas. He had made a homemade digital clock from a pencil case. Instead, teachers called police and Ahmed was interrogated and taken to the police station on suspicion of a bomb hoax. UPDATE: some critics have expressed doubt over the clock as well as the narrative.
The teen, who wants to go to MIT, was a robotics club member and won awards for his inventions. He said that he actually showed it to one teacher who said it was impressive but recommended that he not show it to people at the school. Then it beeped in class and he showed the source of the noise.
Ahmed’s English teacher thought the clock was a bomb and that triggered a bizarre response of multiple teachers and police who took Ahmed into custody without any evidence supporting the allegation of a bomb. He said that was pulled out of class and taken to a room with four police officers. He said that one immediately said “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.” Another said to him, “So you tried to make a bomb?” He said that he kept saying it was a clock.
Irving Police spokesman Officer James McLellan insisted “We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only tell us that it was a clock.”
Well, that was probably because it was a clock Officer McLellan.
Chief Larry Boyd added that Ahmed should have been “forthcoming” by going beyond the description that what he made was a clock. Like what? I can only think of two relevant points. One it is a clock. Two it is not a bomb.
What he did allegedly say is that he wanted to speak with his parents, but that was allegedly one thing that the police did not want to hear. He was held without a lawyer or speaking with his parents according to reports.
Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, reportedly came to his country after fighting for greater freedoms in Sudan where he twice ran for the presidency. He would find his son “surrounded by five police and . . . handcuffed.” He also learned that the police had denied him the right to call his parents by saying that they had not technically put him under arrest.
His family have questioned whether he would have been treated the same way if his name were not Mohamed and was Muslim.
Thousands have rallied around Ahmed under the hashtag “#IstandwithAhmed.” They include Nasa scientists who noticed he was wearing a NASA teeshirt as well as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Even President Barack Obama, tweeted to Ahmed: “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.”
Annie is a terrorist admirer and loves them and defends them. Terrorist loving Annie is just another liberal mouth exposing her hate of America much like her king, obama.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/frank-gaffney-jr
“Once a respectable Washington insider, Frank Gaffney Jr. is now one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes. Gripped by paranoid fantasies about Muslims destroying the West from within, Gaffney believes that “creeping Shariah,” or Islamic religious law, is a dire threat to American democracy. He favors congressional hearings to unmask subversive Muslim conspiracies, and was even banned from far-right Conservative Political Action Conference events after accusing two of its organizers of being agents of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The pictures of that device were fake ones, the real McCoy is a potential threat. You liberals are always so quick to scream some racism or homophobic slander to keep the truth from surfacing. The one who called it right in my opinion was Lisa N and she is correct in her assertion that this could be a dry run by the kids father. Article below are now coming out but not before the left has already labeled it Muslim hate which is baloney, it’s reality.
IF IT WALKS LIKE AN INFLUENCE OPERATION…
Muslim Boy Accused Of Bringing Bomb Disguised As Clock To Texas SchoolPhoto by Ben Torres/Getty Images
by FRANK GAFFNEY
18 Sep 2015
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The more we learn about the facts surrounding the events in Irving, Texas this week, the more it seems we’ve been bamboozled.
The now-universal rendering of the story is that a student named Ahmed Mohamed was wrongly removed from his school in handcuffs for innocently bringing in a homemade “clock.”
The purported injustice of this story – laced with the implication that it all happened because Ahmed is a Muslim – has made him an instant celebrity, winning fawning treatment from MIT to Stephen Colbert to the White House.
The facts, however, suggest this may have been a provocation. For starters, building and bringing to school what sure looked like a trigger for an improvised briefcase bomb would predictably raise an alarm.
It appears, the “clock” Mohamed brought to school this week was not the first of his circuit boards to look ominously like an improvised explosive device trigger. In fact, a photograph of one circulated by the Dallas Morning News was virtually indistinguishable from a circuit board used in a commercially available device used to train law enforcement and military personnel regarding how to identify IEDs.
There is, moreover, now growing evidence that these creations were not even those of the geeky freshman. See Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock and Ourselves on Artvoice.com and Thomas Talbot’s YouTube video.
When Ahmed’s miniature briefcase “clock” did precipitate such concerns, he refused to answer questions from school personnel and police about “his intentions and why he had brought the device to school.” Presumably, they were particularly interested in knowing whether he had brought anything else to school – perhaps to include the other part of such a bomb: the explosive component.
Under the circumstances and in accordance with protocols adopted in Irving – and in school districts across America to protect students and faculty from the sorts of attacks that have resulted in mass murders in several instances, Ahmed was taken into custody. The photograph of him in handcuffs that has gone viral, however, was not taken as he was escorted from the high school. Rather, it was staged after his father insisted at the police station that the cuffs remain on so his sister could take the picture.
In very short order, the family was under management by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization established – ironically, in a federal prosecution conducted in nearby Richardson, Texas – to be a Muslim Brotherhood-associated fundraising and political warfare arm for the designated terrorist group, Hamas. Ahmed lawyered up and he and his family were no-shows for scheduled meetings with school officials and with the police chief and Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne.
In fact, at the very hour the latter meeting was supposed to occur, the Mohameds and their Islamic supremacist handlers were instead holding a press conference. In the course of the presser, the family made clear that their beef wasn’t with the Irving school district or the police. It was with the city’s political leadership, starting with Mayor Van Duyne.
That message has subsequently become a staple of the Islamists. For example, local news on September 18th featured a quote from one, Khalid Hamadeh of the Islamic Association of North Texas, decrying “political leaders espousing inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and creating a climate of fear.”
Nick Spinelli
1, September 17, 2015 at 11:13 am
It was an English teacher who freaked. Almost assuredly a female English teacher. More men are needed in education. That could have prevented this cluster coitus. The Education industry shows the problem when women dominate.
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Just a reminder.
Annie, You forget to mention that it was ALL males who broke the law, and perpetuated this outrage. My question is for the lawyers here if any are left, is there any legal criminal action that can be brought against the cops who simply SPIT on Texas law and did whatever they wished?
And I will say again, some of the dummies were men.
And I will say again. If you had smart, savvy teachers this never should have gotten to the cops.
If you cut the teachers and the school all the slack possible they still come off like imbeciles. The police have absolutely no credibility at all. They are islamophobes and stupid. Imagine handcuffing a child, fingerprinting a child, and interrogating him without his parent’s presence. That there was no application of any expertise or knowledge regarding the ‘bomb’ illustrates that there is no expertise or intelligence in that police department.
The cowards that they are explains why there is no apology. The school suspends the boy for three days, shows only that they are cowards as well as idiots.
Where is the maturity and presence of authority that would apologize and actually applaud the kid? None there.
Nostalgia… I’ll put this… here.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPM51aNWgAA3ZDg.jpg
IED triggers… cell phones.
IED triggers… digital watch.
I think the school needs to have the entire student body arrested, then.
… And the entire administration, too.
It’s half a bomb…
https://soundcloud.com/firstlookmedia/center-for-security-policy-podcast-91715
Anything to these fanatics is half a bomb.
What would have happened if the teachers had guns?……Would they have shot first and asked questions later?
Glenn – teachers are not prone to shooting their students.
@Simms If a teacher overreacted, it is possible the overreaction was not due to bigotry, but simply because the device looks like a bomb. I think if I had been a teacher in that school I would have been concerned about the device itself, no matter who brought it in. I agree there is way too much unfortunate overreaction in this case, such as the arrest, cuffs and suspension, but a ticking suitcase is going to be a cause for concern in a school, no matter who brings it in.
Simms,
I am curious to know if the engineering teacher was consulted when the Principal decided to call the cops. Who was involved in the decision making? Surely it wasn’t this female teacher acting alone.
@Annie “It hasn’t been publicized yet just who saw this clock directly AFTER this female teacher. For all we know the shop teacher or engineering class teacher DID see it and was on board with calling the cops on this kid.”
It’s been widely publicized that Ahmed showed the clock to his first period engineering teacher. The teacher advised Ahmed to NOT show the clock to any other teachers. It looks like the engineering teacher was aware the there were other teachers in the school who could overreact in a bigoted way.
There hasn’t been any discussion regarding whether the engineering teacher was consulted before they called the cops.
BDOG
Goering was not executed. He committed suicide by taking a poison pill. There has been much conjecture concerning how he obtained the pill. He left a note saying that he had it hidden all along. One version is that a US officer who had respected Goering since Goering’s days as a WW1 fighter ace, felt that hanging was ignominious and in the timeless tradition of warriors allowed Goering the option of falling on his sword or munching on arsenic.
Most of what had happened in the death camps had not completely sunk in when the trials took place. There was also a separation between the policies of the government or Hitler and the actions of the military, a military just like those of the allies. Soldiers often respect soldiers regardless of whether or not they are shooting at them.
Teacher, teacher, I declare, we can see your underwear.
Prairie, Great point! I would like to think a veteran teacher would have more poise. Maybe she’s a rookie? That still wouldn’t excuse the blatant overreaction, but at least it would offer some context.
Nick,
You are correct to say she should know her students better; however, school has only been in session for about one month.
I would be interested to know how seasoned she was as a teacher. Did she have 20 years under her belt or 2? Someone who was a preteen or child on 9/11 and grew up in hyper-security may react differently to such things than you or I.
Prairie Rose – you are right, it is hard to know a 9th grader after a month. The teachers spent some of the time before school started going over evacuation procedures for bombs, what to do if you suspect a bomb, etc., so that is still pretty fresh in the teacher’s mind (we hope) so maybe so over-reacted because of that.
The actions of the administration and the police are uncalled for.and I am glad the kid is going to another school.
Yes there is no question that the Reichstag (German Parliament bldg) was burned in 1933. There is no question that the Nazis blamed it on the Communists. But Goering admitted that he had gone through a tunnel under a street to the Reichstage and set the fire. He admitted this at Nuremburg during the trials before the executed him for other war crimes.
The parallel is not lost. Perhaps some folks on our shores were behind the 9/11 attacks because they wanted The Patriot Act.
BitchinDog – Goring was not executed at Nuremburg. He was not allowed to talk to anyone except his family and the guard assigned to him. He committed suicide before they could hang him.
There was so much propaganda put out by the Brits and US about Hitler that it is really hard to get to the truth.