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ISIS and other terror groups have released footage of them using kids as young as him and even younger to carry out terror attacks.

You do realise Islamic terrorists are sickening right? They use children to carry bombs so it is required that we take action against this both for the safety of the locals and the kids. ISIS want you to think they look innocent, it is how they think.

Yeah sure sure. It's just hate

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username917703

Original post by jedanselemyia

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ahmed-mohamed-14-year-old-muslim-student-arrested-bringing-homemade-clock-school-1519950

this article has a pic of something similar

To be honest I can understand how that could raise suspicion. It doesn't exactly look like a clock.

edit - if his teacher was an engineer you'd think he'd be quick to understand what it was or something.

Reply 22

scotttb

WTF he made a clock? I can't even make toast.

Reply 23

queen-bee

Nobody investigated this little boy for making an alarm clock for his school project vs

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arresting Ahmed and mistaking his clock for a bomb.

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Reply 24

Namandi

Original post by queen-bee

Interesting.

Is that sarcasm? I'm confused lol

It is interesting though and I do see your point. It's possible that the boy was probably a victim of stereoyping

It's sad that the stereotype exists but it exists for a reason. At one point in time, coloured muslim men have been the perpetrators of mass terrorism and violence.

Just like the stereotype of 'a depressed white kid is probs carrying around a gun ready to shoot up a school' exists. It exists because at one point in time mass school shootings were happening by white kids.

Stereotypes cause paranoia but that can't really be faulted. People would choose safety over paranoia any day which is understandable

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Reply 25

username917703

Original post by queen-bee

Nobody investigated this little boy for making an alarm clock for his school project vs

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arresting Ahmed and mistaking his clock for a bomb.

That's not comparable :biggrin:

That clock has the time on it and resembles a clock. And he didn't just turn up with it randomly.

Reply 26

queen-bee

Original post by Blackstarr

I remember making one in year 7.

Were you arrested?

Reply 27

phoenixsilver

The whole scare mistake thing is justifiable considering it may have looked suspicious.

However it is abhorrent that the school is still suspending him after finding out he is innocent and it was simply a clock!

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Reply 28

BaconandSauce

Original post by Wilfred Little

Anyone got a picture of the clock?

And how exactly did this happen? Was it for a project or something?

That will be interesting

He built a clock in a box that beeps. He took it into school for no reason other than to show it to a teacher it wasn't part of a project and no one asked him to build it. As a result of hearing it beep in his bag a teacher asked to view it and it all went downhill from there.

Hardly surprising people reacted this way but as I said 'better safe than sorry'

Reply 29

queen-bee

Original post by Namandi

Is that sarcasm? I'm confused lol

It is interesting though and I do see your point. It's possible that the boy was probably a victim of stereoyping

It's sad that the stereotype exists but it exists for a reason. At one point in time, coloured muslim men have been the perpetrators of mass and violence.

Just like the stereotype of 'a depressed white kid is probs carrying around a gun ready to shoot up a school' exists. It exists because at one point in time mass school shootings were happening by white kids.

Stereotypes cause paranoia but that can't really be faulted. People would choose safety over paranoia any day which is understandable

No BS excuse justifies this. Let's be honest. He is black and Muslim. Coincidence much?

Reply 30

BaconandSauce

Original post by queen-bee

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arresting Ahmed and mistaking his clock for a bomb.

expect it wasn't for a school project.

Reply 31

queen-bee

Original post by BaconandSauce

expect it wasn't for a school project.

What's your point?

Reply 32

Schrödingers Cat

You can't blame the police force with everything that's happened in America with schools, they were just doing their job after the teachers aroused suspicion

Charging the boy on making a hoax bomb is ridiculous however and he should not have been arrested after finding out the 'bomb' was a clock

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Reply 33

BaconandSauce

Original post by Wilfred Little

apparently he did show it to a 'engineering' teacher who told him not to show it to anyone else because of how it looked.

It was only when it started beeping in a different classroom that it went pear shaped

Idiots.

Original post by queen-bee

What's your point?

you asked why someone who did this as part of a school project wasn't arrested

given this I though the fact that he DIDN'T do this as part of a school project would have highlighted the different reactions.

Reply 36

deathbeforeimmortality

It's really sad.

Reply 37

queen-bee

Original post by BaconandSauce

Lame excuse

Reply 38

BaconandSauce

Original post by Schrödingers Cat

You can't blame the police force with everything that's happened in America with schools, they were just doing there job after the teachers aroused suspicion

Charging the boy on making a hoax bomb is ridiculous however and he should not have been arrested after finding out the 'bomb' was a clock