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September 21, 2015, 09:27:18 PM
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This sounds pretty ridiculous. How come his teacher's didn't understand what he was doing? it only shows the poor scientific understanding and knowledge the teachers have!
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September 22, 2015, 06:30:54 AM
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Interesting to watch jjphillips and wilikon furiously firefighting a story which doesn't fit with their hate obsessed fascist world view.

Do either of these scum have anything to do with Bitcoin, or are they on this forum simply as crazed wingnut shills, paid by the insult or Breitbart?


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But some engineers say something’s fishy about the high schooler’s invention, and the Internet has been lit aflame by claims of conspiracy. The fact that a teenager was put in handcuffs over his clock appears to be less of a concern to some people than the apparently shoddy engineering of the “invention” in question.

Electronics experts who examined photos of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s creation called it a fraud loudly enough to grab the attention of famed atheist and biologist Richard Dawkins, who on Sunday tweeted: “We were all fooled.”
Dawkins went as far as suggesting the ninth-grader had a “motive” for his arrest over the digital clock, which was inside a black pencil case and tied shut with a cable. “If this is true, what was his motive?” Dawkins wrote. “Whether or not he wanted the police to arrest him, they shouldn’t have done so.”


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/21/nerds-rage-over-ahmed-s-clock.html



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September 22, 2015, 10:57:27 AM
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That boy is just awesome.
Google, Facebook and other big companies are inviting him.
Good for him.
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September 22, 2015, 03:21:23 PM
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That boy is just awesome.
Google, Facebook and other big companies are inviting him.
Good for him.

I did. what an awesome fraud.

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September 22, 2015, 03:35:02 PM
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AHMED MOHAMED IMPLIES HE KNEW HIS CLOCK COULD ‘SEEM LIKE A THREAT’


In a telling admission on video, Ahmed Mohamed—the MacArthur High School freshman student in Texas who was arrested for bringing what school officials and police believed was a “hoax bomb” to school—implied that he knew that the clock he had built would look suspicious and threatening.

Ahmed asserted, “I closed [the ‘clock’] with a cable, I didn’t want to lock it to make it seem like a threat. So I just used a simple cable so it won’t look that much suspicious.” Ahmed’s assessment would juxtapose nicely with police chief Larry Boyd, who had stated that the clock was “certainly suspicious in nature.”

Boyd, unaware of Ahmed’s belief that that the clock could look suspicious, even allowed that Ahmed had no idea of the clock’s ripple effect, saying, “The follow-up investigation revealed the device apparently was a homemade experiment, and there’s no evidence to support the perception he intended to create alarm,” adding that the incident was a “naive accident.”

Ahmed just can’t seem to make up his mind; he acknowledged in the video that the clock could look suspicious, yet admitted that when the clock beeped in class and the teacher told him it looked like a bomb, he responded, “It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”

The resultant media furor over Ahmed’s arrest triggered an invitation for Ahmed to visit the White House, a White House invitation to address NASA scientists and astronauts at Astronomy Night, and an invitation from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to meet the Facebook founder.

Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne had initially defended the school district and police, asserting, “I do not fault the school or the police for looking into what they saw as a potential threat. We have all seen terrible and violent acts committed in schools… Perhaps some of those could have been prevented and lives could have been spared if people were more vigilant.” She later softened her approach, saying she would be “very upset” had her child been treated as Ahmed was, adding, “Hopefully, we can all learn from this week’s events and the student, who has obvious gifts, will not feel at all discouraged from pursuing his talent in electronics and engineering.”

Even though Ahmed admitted that his engineering teacher advised him not to bring the suspicious-looking clock to school, White House spokesman Josh Earnest intoned, “It’s clear that at least some of Ahmed’s teachers failed him. That’s too bad, but it’s not too late for all of us to use this as a teachable moment and to search our own conscience for biases in whatever form they take.”


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/21/ahmed-mohamed-implies-knew-clock-seem-like-threat/


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September 22, 2015, 04:42:57 PM
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Something about this story smells. I'm not buying it.

Said the zionist.......

The only thing that smells is your (and Wilikon's) lack of empathy for a kid who just so happens to be a Muslim.

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September 22, 2015, 05:00:59 PM
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Something about this story smells. I'm not buying it.

Said the zionist.......

The only thing that smells is your (and Wilikon's) lack of empathy for a kid who just so happens to be a Muslim.

People can be full of empathy for people who are prejudged and still think certain stories are fake. The Virginia shooting on camera was quite clearly fake and people still get mad when you say that, because supposedly people died. All you can do is pray for those who really are hurt in this world, and look at the news with a skeptical eye.
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September 22, 2015, 06:23:15 PM
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Something about this story smells. I'm not buying it.

Said the zionist.......

The only thing that smells is your (and Wilikon's) lack of empathy for a kid who just so happens to be a Muslim.

I love children. I love them not to be aborted. I love them not to be molested. I do not like opportunists, no matter the age. If you are a muslim and you believe to be a superior being then more smelling superpower to you...



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September 22, 2015, 07:46:58 PM
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This is 100% a fraud. He didn't create anything, he simply removed the casing from a commercial clock and placed it into a pencil case. This was completely designed for public attention and profit. The kid now has tons of donations and scholarships because of this, as well as a likely lawsuit against a school district which will only result in hurting the educations of local children. I don't care what race/religion you are, you would still be arrested for bringing something that looks like any kind of weapon to school due to zero tolerance laws.

A couple things I don't see being widely reported about this situation:

1. Thie father of this same child publicly debated the Koran burning preacher in Florida a while back. This demonstrate his family's desire for public attention. http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/father-of-muslim-bomb-hoax-clockster-was-qurans-defense-attorney-against-terry-jones.html/

2. His father is a millionaire entrepreneur and social justice warrior from Sudan with a history of this kind of media trolling behavior.

This guy breaks it down pretty well IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEGVatXCOL0

Some additional comments from Mark Cuban who talked with the boy directly. He comments that he was being coached the whole time by his sister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGit-XltUB4
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September 22, 2015, 08:40:25 PM
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This is 100% a fraud. He didn't create anything, he simply removed the casing from a commercial clock and placed it into a pencil case. This was completely designed for public attention and profit. The kid now has tons of donations and scholarships because of this, as well as a likely lawsuit against a school district which will only result in hurting the educations of local children. I don't care what race/religion you are, you would still be arrested for bringing something that looks like any kind of weapon to school due to zero tolerance laws.

A couple things I don't see being widely reported about this situation:

1. Thie father of this same child publicly debated the Koran burning preacher in Florida a while back. This demonstrate his family's desire for public attention. http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/father-of-muslim-bomb-hoax-clockster-was-qurans-defense-attorney-against-terry-jones.html/

2. His father is a millionaire entrepreneur and social justice warrior from Sudan with a history of this kind of media trolling behavior.

This guy breaks it down pretty well IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEGVatXCOL0

Some additional comments from Mark Cuban who talked with the boy directly. He comments that he was being coached the whole time by his sister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGit-XltUB4



Not passing the smelling test.


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September 22, 2015, 09:08:18 PM
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Did America Get Trolled By Ahmed And His Clock?


It was the story that sparked outrage across America.

A bright 14-year old student brought a homemade clock into MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas to impress a teacher. But instead of earning praise for his engineering skills and innovation, he was handcuffed, hauled off by police and suspended from school.

Since he’s a dark-skinned Muslim, the political left cited it as evidence that America is a racist and xenophobic country. Just like they’ve said all along.

Thus the child prodigy became a national hero. VIP invites poured in, ranging from individuals like President Obama and Mark Zuckerburg to prestigious agencies and institutions such as NASA and MIT. So did generous donations.


But what if it was all a scam? Based on a hoax? Irving’s version of Ferguson’s infamous, “hands up, don’t shoot.”

Well, the more we learn about Ahmed Mohamed, his clock, family and friends, and most importantly this year’s bitter struggle between Muslim community leaders and Irving government officials over Sharia Law, it seems a certainty. No offense to Ahmed, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out.

Let’s start with the clock. It doesn’t remotely resemble one. No, it resembles a briefcase bomb. Photos show a vintage Radio Shack clock, dissembled and put back into a case, with a wire sticking out.  Once it began beeping inside a back-pack, that’s when the trouble started. When police questioned young Ahmed, they said he was “passive aggressive,” stubbornly repeating it was a clock and stonewalling other questions. But here’s the thing, even if the Pope or Dalai Lama brought that device into a school, and then played games with teachers and police, they’d get arrested too.

Unfortunately, most people’s attention span started and ended with just the clock incident. As if it happened a vacuum. Poor Ahmed.

But there’s much more to this than meets the eye.

Turns out that Ahmed’s family and friends are activists and provocateurs. They’re front line warriors in battling so-called “Islamophobia,” a term coined by the Muslim Brotherhood and since used to silence any criticism of Muslims, no matter what they do. His dad, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed has engaged in publicity stunts before, like defending the Koran in Florida Pastor Terry Jones’ mock trial in 2010. In a 2011 television debate with Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch entitled, “Does Islam Respect Human Rights?” Mohamed identifies himself as President of Al-Sufi Islamic Center in Dallas and former presidential candidate of Sudan. It’s the country where the Muslim Janjaweed militia carried out genocide against non-Muslim black Africans in Darfur.

During the interview, after “correcting the record” that Islam does not abuse human rights, Mohamed tells us, “even when Prophet Mohammed used a sword, he used it like the doctor used a knife, to heal you and to cure you.” That’s reassuring.

Ahmed’s handlers include the Council on American Islamic Relations, a.k.a. CAIR, an organization founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas in the early 1990s to advance the Islamist agenda.  To them, “if you see something, say something,” equals racism. What a great way to disarm America.

And now, we turn to Irving – America’s battleground in the clash over Islam’s Sharia Law.

Following an honor killing in which Egyptian taxi driver Yaser Said shot his two teen daughters Sarah and Amina in his cab because they became “too Westernized,” and refused arranged marriages including to man nearly triple in age, Irving officials took a hardline position to help stop repeats.

In March of this year, Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne made national news by pushing a Texas legislature bill, “American Laws for American Courts” which would stop judges from using foreign law in their rulings. She vocally opposed Sharia mediation at a local mega-mosque too. The Mayor knows that even under lenient interpretations, Sharia treats women and girls as property and thus prone to domestic abuse. In the most extreme cases, honor killings.

Well, guess who’s been out to get the Mayor ever since?

If you guessed Ahmed’s family, friends and CAIR, you’d be right.

So, enter the fresh faced, nerdy kid with the NASA shirt, who tinkers with go-carts and just wants to be an engineer someday. Hollywood couldn’t have cast him better. Just three weeks into high school, he secretly carries in a device that any TSA agent at airport security would think is a bomb. Then provokes police to get arrested, leaving the cuffs on just long enough for his sister to snap a photo.

My fellow Americans, we’ve been trolled. And if we don’t get wise to it, the next Ahmed may very well blow up his school. That’s the inevitable result of silencing teachers and disarming police. Time to face truth, or forever live with the consequences.




http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/21/did-america-get-trolled-by-ahmed-and-his-clock/


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IMO this is pretext for softening up America's resolve in order to justify absorbing more Syrian refugees which just so happen to include militants from many countries other than Syria. Mark my words, these refugees are only being allowed in as cover for Muslim extremist militants so that the people who started all these wars to begin with can bring the war home to Europe and the USA, then justifying complete military lock down and removal of civil rights.
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IMO this is pretext for softening up America's resolve in order to justify absorbing more Syrian refugees which just so happen to include militants from many countries other than Syria. Mark my words, these refugees are only being allowed in as cover for Muslim extremist militants so that the people who started all these wars to begin with can bring the war home to Europe and the USA, then justifying complete military lock down and removal of civil rights.

I didn't read the whole thread, but did anyone mention this guy, Gagan Singh tweeted a pic, #standwithahmed:



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IMO this is pretext for softening up America's resolve in order to justify absorbing more Syrian refugees which just so happen to include militants from many countries other than Syria. Mark my words, these refugees are only being allowed in as cover for Muslim extremist militants so that the people who started all these wars to begin with can bring the war home to Europe and the USA, then justifying complete military lock down and removal of civil rights.

I didn't read the whole thread, but did anyone mention the father tweeted a pic, #standwithahmed:



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What a piece of shit. This is exactly the kind of exploitative divisive behavior that fuels prejudice and callousness towards people who ACTUALLY suffer from incidents of discrimination.
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Something about this story smells. I'm not buying it.

Called it.

Interesting to watch jjphillips and wilikon furiously firefighting a story which doesn't fit with their hate obsessed fascist world view.

One reason I was able to call it is because there've been several stories of Muslims in the U.S. purposefully instigating a situation and then later claiming Islamophobia. Since I've seen repeated evidence for this, it's become part of my world view. This particular example fits perfectly into it.

I understand many people have a different world view which boils down to "West bad. Islam good." In order to shoehorn this situation into their world view, they simply ignore the clear evidence that the young Muslim student simply disassembled an existing digital clock and put it into a case with wiring to make it look suspicious.

And look, you have a good strategy. Ignoring evidence is a very good way to protect your world view. By all means, continue.

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IMO this is pretext for softening up America's resolve in order to justify absorbing more Syrian refugees which just so happen to include militants from many countries other than Syria. Mark my words, these refugees are only being allowed in as cover for Muslim extremist militants so that the people who started all these wars to begin with can bring the war home to Europe and the USA, then justifying complete military lock down and removal of civil rights.

I didn't read the whole thread, but did anyone mention the father tweeted a pic, #standwithahmed:



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Do you know how to tell the time on a clock? It's 9 55, not 9 11

And secondly, that's not his father. Not even close.

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Do you know how to tell the time on a clock? It's 9 55, not 9 11

And secondly, that's not his father. Not even close.

She didn't say 9:11, she said 9-11. You are totally way smart for knowing how to tell time though.
Check that, you don't even know how to read a clock yourself, because the clock reads 8:55, not 9:55.

You are correct that it is not his father however

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She didn't say 9:11, she said 9-11. You are totally way smart for knowing how to tell time though.

lol

https://youtu.be/QCK4Xqxqeg0?t=3m53s

I apologize if it wasn't his father; I jumped to conclusions on that one. I'll edit it up. To be fair, it's no longer up. Gagan Singh says he took down the tweet. Which he did.
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Do you know how to tell the time on a clock? It's 9 55, not 9 11

And secondly, that's not his father. Not even close.

She didn't say 9:11, she said 9-11. You are totally way smart for knowing how to tell time though.
Check that, you don't even know how to read a clock yourself, because the clock reads 8:55, not 9:55.

You are correct that it is not his father however



You lose credibility sharing false information.

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