‘Clockmed’ Now a Crusader for ‘Racism and Discrimination’?
Ahmed Mohamed, the famed ‘clock boy’ who disassembled a clock from the 1970’s and mounted it in a suitcase so he could take it to school and show his teachers has now decided he wants to join the fight to raise awareness “against racism and discrimination.”
It’s only natural that Ahmed would become involved in the fight against Islamophobia since the only reason his teachers called the police about his ‘cool clock’ was because he is Muslim, right?
Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that his sister was suspended from that same school after allegedly threatening to blow the school up three years earlier?
According to Breitbart:
The Muslim American boy championed by President Barack Obama is using his new worldwide fame to accuse Texans of racism and anti-Muslim discrimination.
“My dream is to raise consciousness against racism and discrimination,” he said at a New York press event with Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto lu, according to an article in the Turkish newspaper, HurriyetDailyNews.com.
“Davuto lu, who is New York for the 70th United Nations General Assembly, has met with 14-year-old student Ahmed Mohamed, who was detained at school by the police in Texas when a teacher thought a clock he had made was a bomb,” the newsite said.
“Speaking to reporters ahead of the meeting with Davuto lu, Mohamed said he was excited to meet the Turkish prime minister [and] said he wanted to raise awareness against racism and discrimination,” said TodaysZaman, a Turkish newspaper that support’s Turkey’s Islamist governent.
On Sept. 14, teachers and police in Irving, Texas, detained and questioned Mohamed about a box and wiring he brought into his High School.
The boy’s device was a commercial 120-volt alarm clock, first dismantled and then placed in a case where the screen could not be seen by any users. The boy also left the clock’s innards exposed, so when the power-cord was plugged in, the clock could electrocute anyone who reached inside the case to turn the alarm on or off. The device’s intended purpose was so obscure, in fact, that puzzled police and teachers thought it was a hoax-bomb.
It defies logic why this 13-year old is being hailed as a hero. What is certain is that there seems to be a serious effort to undermine the whole, “if you see something, say something” approach to preventing terrorism.
Now, anyone who says anything is a racist.
Here is Ahmed making a television appearance on a late night comedy show: