“He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said *Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president*. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”
Mohamed is familiar with anti-Islamic politics. *He once made national headlines* for debating a Florida pastor who burned a Quran. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece It simply could not be that we're witnessing the importation of middle eastern politics to Texas.... On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:34 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events > <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/18/2244251/ahmed-mohamed-his-clock-and-the-curious-turn-of-events> > 164 > <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/18/2244251/ahmed-mohamed-his-clock-and-the-curious-turn-of-events> > Posted by timothy <http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/> on Friday September > 18, 2015 @03:48PM from the but-don't-make-a-pop-tart-gun dept. > New submitter poity <http://slashdot.org/~poity> writes:After the news > first broke of the 9th grader getting cuffed > <http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/09/16/0339206/9th-grader-may-face-charges-after-homemade-clock-mistaken-for-bomb> > for > scaring school officials with what turned out to be a digital clock, Ahmed > Mohamed has experienced a surge of popular support — hailed as a genius > and a hero > <http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9336259/nerds-support-ahmed-muhamed>, > with college scholarships, internship offers, and even an invitation to > the White House > <http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/09/16/2035259/obama-invites-texas-teen-to-white-house-after-bomb-clock-incident-at-school> > by > President Obama himself. Now, amid rumors of possible racial discrimination > lawsuits against the school and local police, some people have begun to > more deeply scrutinize the details of the case, especially on the tech side > with regard to the homemade clock in question > <http://www.wired.com/2015/09/heres-bomb-clock-got-ahmed-mohamed-arrested/>. > Recently, a writer at the creative site Artvoice posted a remarkable > analysis of Ahmed's clock project > <http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/>, > which raises new questions about the case and the manner in which people > and the media alike have reacted.The linked analysis posits that Ahmed's > clock started out as another clock, rather than a box of parts, and Ahmed > can be said to have repackaged rather than "invented" a wholly new clock, > but acknowledges that "none of us were there and knows what happened." > Twitter <http://slashdot.org/#>Facebook <http://slashdot.org/#>LinkedIn > <http://slashdot.org/#>Google+ > <http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/09/18/2244251/ahmed-mohamed-his-clock-and-the-curious-turn-of-events> > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Lawrence de Bivort <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Good thing Sailer isn't hallucinating or mind-reading here! >> >> Hmm. His dad ran for Sudanese president. How suspicious! >> >> Hmmm. Kid builds a clock and this means he is…demonizing the West! >> >> >> On Sep 18, 2015, at 12:31 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Keep providing payoffs in terms of moral authority and social status for >> this kind of behavior and you are going to keep getting more of it: >> >> >> Steve Sailer: I’m sure you’ve heard about the Sudanese Muslim immigrant >> kid in Texas who was arrested for bringing his home made electronic clock >> to school where Islamophobes worried that it was a time bomb beeping in his >> backpack. A reader points out that the kid’s dad is a publicity hound who >> routinely returns to Sudan to run for President and engages in other PR >> stunts >> >> S Sailer: If Ahmed were so smart, he’d know the difference between >> creating a circuit and stripping the guts from a manufactured clock. His >> dad helped him “make” this, and dad helped to make this “project” look as >> questionable as possible, within the realm of plausible deniability. >> Whatever agenda he’s advancing, it just further demonizes western society, >> and reminds us all to be guilty for how racist we all are. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Probably not. But just in case, I will not bring something that looks >>>> vaguely like a bomb to my place of work. >>>> >>> >>> What if your place of work is a high school dedicated to teaching >>> engineering?!? I cannot think of a more appropriate thing to bring than an >>> electronics project. No one on the staff there would have thought this is a >>> bomb. It will not look "vaguely like a bomb" to them. >>> >>> This is like saying you should not bring a hammer to a construction site. >>> >>> - Jed >>> >>> >> >> >
