what are your opinions on Ahmed Mohamed's clock.?

Question

im a liberal but this story is ridiculous. the kid clearly took apart a cheap plastic clock and put the parts into a briefcase to make it look like a bomb. probably for middle school giggles but thats it. the schools paranoia was justified.

when i was 14, me and my friends played airsoft and we also made a breifcase bomb the same way. we would have never brought it to school but maybe ahmed isnt to bright.

in my opinion, he is getting special treatment by the media because he is muslum.

Answer 1

The 14-year-old kid Ahmed Muhammed is a science-loving American, very similar to my granddaughter who liked to tinker and take electronic devices apart before she was even in preschool. My granddaughter is now 20 and will have her Engineering degree in less than a year, although in a small-town America grade school some years ago she did get suspended for penetrating the firewall and then rearranging the school computer's programming and turning their screen upside-down. My granddaughter proudly declared herself a "science geek" when she was only seven years old, just as Ahmed's parents have said proudly that their son showed a fascination with science from his toddler days.



Bear in mind that this enterprising young teen is attending a school in Texas---the state that wants textbooks to do away with the idea slavery was the cause of the Civil War and who insists that evolution is not real.



Now consider the probable negative global repercussions if young Muslim-American Ahmed's arrest over a class project that he thought would please or impress his science teacher went unchallenged. Prominent people had to reach out publicly to nullify the negative effect, and this includes President Obama's invitation to a science event at the White House, which announces to the world that the U.S. is not building up a racial divide against people of the Muslim faith. Rightwing biblical-literalist Republicans are willing to spread their hate, but America overall embraces people from all walks of life from all faith choices---and this includes young black males and teenage Muslim science whizzes.

Answer 2

I'm with you to some extent, and I applaud the teacher's choice to err on the side of caution in these perilous times, but I can't help wondering what might've happened had a geeky-looking Anglo kid named Melvin Humperdink or something done the same thing. Only the most hidebound bigot would assert the cops's reaction wasn't, to say the least, a bit over the top, or that it would've made more sense to have the bomb squad check out the device before slapping the handcuffs on the kid in front of all his classmates. Surely they did not expect that weasly-looking preadolescent to scream, "ALLAH AKBAR," and start laying about him with a box-cutter or something with a hoarde of armed men in the room.



Bottom line is, once we start treating people differently based solely on appearance, national origin, or religion, we might as well run up the ISIS flag because the terrorists have already won.

Answer 3

His father has a history of attention seeking.

g. He was involved with the man who wanted to burn the Koran He has a business called Twin Towers Transportion and many fake names.

The boy took the briefcase clock to four classes before it began making noises and the class became alarmed. He didn't answer questions except. It's a clock. Not and my teacher ...... asked me to bring it in today. It wasn't for an assignment and it would have been simple to ask the instructor. He played everyone. I dont think it is an accident. Obama and Mark Zuckerman are all about giving the country away.

Answer 4

It was an outrageous but minor incident, made the school and police look dumb, but it has been greatly overblown by the media. Ahmed was wearing a NASA T-shirt and looks like an Indian boy genius. Making the clock is a sign of intelligence though not necessarily genius.

Anyway, now Ahmed is famous and has friends in high places. He is well compensated for the inconvenience of being arrested.

Maybe he really will get a job at NASA someday.

Answer 5

Basically, the school and police come across looking like morons, over reacting stupid racists.



Would they have done that if he'd been a white Christian ? he told them it was a clock, if they where REALLY WORRIED then they'd have emptied everyone out of the building, wouldn't they...they didn't they decided to get the kid arrested !

Answer 6

It will probably go down in history similar to the Rodney King incident.



In exposing the facade of "civility" in America . When in fact xeno-racism and McCarthyism are at the very heart of America's public institutions.



America is a schizophrenic nation, of that there is no question. But that it seeps into it's very schools is as troubling as any Nazi youth program.



If the teachers and cops are doing this and not being investigated and sacked. Then what will the children, learning from them, grow up doing?



They too will attack foreigners thinking "accusation is enough".

Answer 7

The little brat was uncooperative with the police, which is why he was arrested. This was a set up concocted by his extremist Muslim father to make America out to be Isalmophoibic Check out the links below, the fanatical father is in the jihad exposed video.



Jihad Exposed: Does Islam Respect Human Rights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=46&v=N8BLtBFeyyo



Pamela Gellar's take on this incident - http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/father-of-muslim-bomb-hoax-clockster-was-qurans-defense-attorney-against-terry-jones.html/

Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock… and Ourselves: http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/

Answer 8

I thick he's smart enough to make a clock but young and naive enough not to think it might alarm someone (no pun intended). What is disturbing is that the cops admitted they knew it was only a clock very quickly yet they kept grilling him for hours and no one called his parents.



That is not only morally wrong but stupid on their part. No wonder the media is paying attention to it. They should, because a white boy would NOT have been treated the same way. You'd have to be blind to think he would.

Answer 9

It was just amazing to see that just 14 year old kid made a digital clock. Incident happen which was not good but it was just an inquiry taken US police to be on safe side. This incident has made Ahmed famous and has got invitation to white house from President which is something great.

Answer 10

why is it even a media story? I've said it before but i'll say it again. cops investigate incident everything found to be fine and dandy so police go away.

ask any policemen they are always turning up to a place on a shout only to find no crime has been committed so go away again

its a non story being over played by people who really should know better

Answer 11

What would you of said if it WAS a bomb and went off? "Oh those poor defenseless children"

Give it a rest the Teacher Did the right thing but the media has BLOWN it out of proportion.

By the way Jack H It would of been the same with any halfwit person who took a suspicious object into school,

You seem to have enough gunslingers in the USA who are not Muslim.

Answer 12

When I was 14 we didn't have any Muslims. , only Hindus and Sikhs. We also also had fun with everyone and everyone was equal. We did not have to worry about being pc and the country was predominately c of email. How were the police supposed to know if it was real or not?

Answer 13

A bright kid who happens to be Muslim built a clock. A CLOCK. Stupid paranoid teacher blew the whistle. Bright kid gets suspended. An unnessecary sh!t storm erupts because of it. Object turns out to be exactly what he said it was. Stupid paranoid people (including Sarah Palin-no surprise there) make a big fuss. Nobody learns from their mistake. Sadly, no big surprise.

Answer 14

Total set up to get JUST the reaction in the press that it did....this is the new thing with muslims, baiting the press and then shaming everyone for having any fear. I've seen 3 other stories like this recently.

Answer 15

He wouldn't have been locked up for taking a clock into school if his name had been Wayne Smith. I think that says it all.

Answer 16

This was nothing short of an attempt to announce how much Islam can contribute to society with their great talents. In Saudi their education system is sorely lacking as many are illiterate

Answer 17

I think the teacher failed to build the teacher-student relationship , also how come science teacher doesn't know the difference between clock and bomb , that's so ridiculous .

Answer 18

He was a creative child ! and didn't want to harm anyone! but the school kinda did him a favour cause they gave him possibly a brighter future for overreacting/being islamophobic or racist lol haha XD

Answer 19

Yes, the fundamentalist punk was playing his religion/race card to gain an advantage for his people and his family - let's hope it all backfires in their faces !

Answer 20

Times have changed. What went around then ,involves an armed response now !

Answer 21

I live in the UK - If they Thought it was a Bomb, Why Did they Not Evacuate the School?

Answer 22

He is also fairly cute. If he was plug-ugly and aggressive there would be no sympathy from anyone.

Answer 23

If it "ticks" forward in time it is ok. If it ticks "backward" in time like a time-bomb would - then bad.

Answer 24

You are a lying git.

Answer 25

Bomb parts,aren't bomb parts,until they explode.

Answer 26

THIS IS NO LONGER A FREE SOCIETY PEOPLE !!!!