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Bullies.Brilliant OP, the right wing outrage over a boy and his clock is hilarious.
I find it more tragic. He's just a kid - a smart, curious normal kid. And they are trashing him. Simply unreal.Bullies.Brilliant OP, the right wing outrage over a boy and his clock is hilarious.
I find it more tragic. He's just a kid - a smart, curious normal kid. And they are trashing him. Simply unreal.
Bullshit. The kid is a straight out liar to begin with. He hollowed out a radio shack clock from the 80s and crammed it into a pencil case.
His role in all this bullshit is really suspect.
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
The kid is a victim of zero tolerance policies, and nothing more.
If he were a Christian the American left would be laughing their asses off.
No his parents would be suing the school and police for violating his rights.
There are no Muslim terrorist kids?
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
Because we are not hiding under our beds, Birther? With you, the terrorists have already won.
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
I think they are up to over $100,000 now.
It's people like Coyote, that are a problem and a danger to the American public!
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
An excellent analysis of the reprehensible right, and the propensity of most conservatives to contrive 'controversies' where none exist for some perceived partisan gain.Cast of Characters:
Ahmed - a 14 yr old 9th grade student who likes to tinker and build things.
The Voices - scores of online "experts" who purport to "know things" by looking at "photographs" or online "rumors" unsubstantiated by any evidence.
Mayor Van Duyne - an elected official who's speechs about Islam have set the town tone for this play.
Complete Script for this Drama is here: Craze over teen clockmaker from Irving shifts from celebrity to conspiracy
Prelude:
...A week after police called a homemade clock that Ahmed brought to school a “hoax bomb,” then dropped the charge,viral posts have called the 14-year-old everything from a fraudulent inventor to an Islamist plant who planned all along to get himself handcuffed.
Most of these theories cite no evidence, many contradict each other and some clash with known facts — like a statement from Irving City Hall that the MacArthur High freshman never intended to frighten anyone with his circuit-stuffed pencil case...
ACT ONE
Early rumors Phase 1 -- it's a COUNTDOWN CLOCK!!!!
... A Facebook post by a self-professed electrical engineer spread by the thousands after the teen hit the news. The writer claimed Ahmed had made no ordinary clock, but a “COUNTDOWN clock” that would have alarmed any teacher.
But the only evidence the post offered was a stock photo of a countdown clock next to the Irving police photo of Ahmed’s device. That countdown clock’s dimensions didn’t match the screen that Ahmed had soldered to a circuit board and strapped inside a small case.
If Ahmed hadn’t made a countdown clock, some wondered, perhaps he’d made nothing at all.
Early rumors Phase 2 - he's a fraud, no genius and the clock is nothing.
“Why are you so annoyed about this kid?” someone asked Richard Dawkins on Twitter, after the famous biologist linked a YouTube video claiming the boy had merely rearranged a store-bought clock inside a case.
“Because he disassembled & reassembled a clock (which is fine) & then claimed it was his ‘invention’ (which is fraud),” Dawkins wrote back.
Ahmed, who was famous in middle school for bringing handmade gizmos to class and robotics club, did tell reporters who knocked on his door last week that the clock was “my invention.”
But Ahmed also said the clock was a “simple thing … that’s easy to make”that he’d hoped his new high school teachers would understand. He said he’d soldered it together in about 20 minutes. It was no match for the hand-wired, micro-soldered radio transmitter he showed off on his bedroom floor.
ACT TWO- Attack the Family
Scene 1: the Father:
On his blog, national columnist Mark Steyn called Ahmed’s father “a belligerent Muslim activist,” citing Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed’s occasional runs for president of Sudan.
Steyn didn’t mention that Mohamed had campaigned in his native country by promising to end its links with terrorism and abolish repressive laws. A devotee of a mystical branch of Islam called Sufism, Mohamed also made the news a few years ago for trying to convince a Quran-burning pastor in Florida that the book espoused peace.
Scene 2: Attack the Sister
But after Mavericks owner Cuban told reporters that he’d heard Ahmed’s sister feeding the boy answers to his questions, many have wondered if the family is coaching the boy through his fame.
The Mohameds have largely managed Ahmed’s first week of celebrity via cacophonous family meetings in a cramped living room. The father rushed in and out of the house as he struggled to run his passenger pickup company between reporter visits,and Ahmed’s teenage sister fielded press requests to her Gmail account.
The family sounded surprised to learn over the weekend that they were being accused of conspiracy.
“There is truth, and there is mischief,” said the boy’s father.
“Ahmed is just a 14-year-old boy who’s trying to do what he loves to do,” said his sister, Eyman Mohamed, 18. “Just trying to build.”
Scene 3: Propagation of Conspiracy Theories Masquerading as Truth but Lacking Evidence
- Countdown clock theory
- Fraudulent clock theory
- Arrested on purpose theory
No theory that The News has reviewed cites any evidence that Ahmed, who routinely brought electronic creations to his middle school and said he wanted to impress high school teachers, planned to get handcuffed and hit the news. A statement sent out Tuesday from Irving City Hall acknowledged that a police “investigation determined the student apparently did not intend to cause alarm bringing the device to school.”Scene 4: The Conclusion
- Muslim activists theory
The family appeared surprised by Ahmed’s sudden fame, and in early days his teenage sisters helped him manage countless media requests and offers from corporations. A reporter for The News visited Ahmed’s house several times after the boy’s story went viral. The family let the reporter talk to Ahmed alone, and no one coached him during these visits.
Of course there are....and there are normal kids too. You, my friend, appear to be too paranoid to see the difference.There are no Muslim terrorist kids?
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
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OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
You sadly are going to be on the wrong side of this up and coming. It's a Radio Shack clock from the 80's. This is a set up.
Then you should not have conversations with yourself.
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
I can't argue with a crazy person, it's hard enough arguing with demented liberals!
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
You know how I have defended Islam against all comers. This stinks. His father is a professional agitator. His father needs the profile and the cash.
Because we are not hiding under our beds, Birther? With you, the terrorists have already won.
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
I think they are up to over $100,000 now.
It's people like Coyote, that are a problem and a danger to the American public!
Where is your evidence? Still waiting.
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
You know how I have defended Islam against all comers. This stinks. His father is a professional agitator. His father needs the profile and the cash.
The kid is a victim of zero tolerance policies, and nothing more.
If he were a Christian the American left would be laughing their asses off.
No his parents would be suing the school and police for violating his rights.
That makes no sense.
Then you should not have conversations with yourself.
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
You guys must feel really big to rip up a 14 yr old kid like that.
I can't argue with a crazy person, it's hard enough arguing with demented liberals!
Because we are not hiding under our beds, Birther? With you, the terrorists have already won.
OH, and get a FUNDME account to go to college and have stupid, white liberals donate thousands of dollars to a muslim CON ARTIST!
I think they are up to over $100,000 now.
It's people like Coyote, that are a problem and a danger to the American public!
I can't wait to see you get blown up, or even better, viciously raped by one of those gentle muslims as the white women do in Scandinavia! Perhaps as Bernie Slander wrote, you secret desire is to be raped by 3 muslim men?
