Student Arrested for Clock 'Bomb'

[mirth]

I was really looking forward to the make-up sex.

I didn't rule that out.

[mirth]

For the record, I completely agree with Rush on this (in fact I made some of these points upthread)

Kindergarteners have been sent home for using their hands to pretend to be firing a gun.  A 13-year-old with a toy AK-47 has been shot and killed by the cops, and a 10-year-old boy was suspended for pointing a finger like a gun.  A 12-year-old Rhode Island student was suspended for small key chain gun.  "Oklahoma teachers union seeks to keep zero tolerance rules banning imaginary guns."  Everybody has become so sensitized to this because of the actual shootings at schools that there has become a "zero tolerance."  So the point here is that the effort is being made to blame school officials and the cops for Islamophobia here, and that is not what is going on.  Zero-tolerance policies at schools, which are the direct result of previous incidents -- the zero tolerance is out of control, such as pretending to shoot a gun with your finger (that gets you sent home) -- is what's responsible here.  It's just the latest example, and it's made to order for Obama, because here we have once again backlash against Muslims, you see?

[Nefaro]

I suggest respectfully you google kids toy gun suspension.   You will find plent of stories to refute the notion this was merely based on the color of skin.  Kids are suspended, arrested, and charged for toy guns, keychain guns and all sorts of similar absurdity..  Including white kids too as if that matters, but apparently race is what matters in this case.  Kids are suspended for wearing t-shirts with the American flag.  They aren't getting tweets of support or condemnations that the school and police acted stupidly from the highest levels of power in this nation. Why?  Because every damned thing these days is political.  It either supports the agenda or it doesn't.

You nailed it, Bison.

O0

With all the "zero tolerance" craziness going on in the school system, swaths of the media run this piece just because there's a race angle.   ::)

[Jarhead0331]

I'm just going to put this right here...

http://www.youngcons.com/ahmed-mohameds-father-battled-against-florida-koran-burner-ran-for-president-twice-in-sudan/

[mirth]

I'm just going to put this right here...

http://www.youngcons.com/ahmed-mohameds-father-battled-against-florida-koran-burner-ran-for-president-twice-in-sudan/

So this whole thing may well have been a stunt instigated by the father. In that case, charges should definitely be brought.

[mirth]

And I will freely acknowledge that details about the father are being omitted by the mainstream media.

[mirth]

Couple of additional links about the father

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/father-muslim-kid-arrested-clock-standout-citizen-article-1.2363466

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/muslim-at-koran-trial-says-he-didnt-know-the-holy-book-would-be-burned/2011/04/05/AFKNR3oC_story.html

[mirth]

From the WP article:

Elhassan, a native of the Sudan who is now an American citizen, likes to call himself a sheik. He wears a cleric's flowing white robes and claims hundreds of followers throughout Egypt, Sudan and in the United States.

But he is unknown as a scholar or holy man in the state he has called home for two decades. Religious leaders in Texas say they have never heard of Elhassan, including the imam at the mosque where he worships.

"This so-called leader, we have never heard of this person," said Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh, the head of the Islamic Center of Irving. "I believe the whole thing is made up."

Yep. Smells like a stunt and a sham. I hope more details are forthcoming.

[mirth]

And more.

http://www.okayafrica.com/news/istandwithahmed-mohamed-elhassan-mohamed-sudanese-father-backstory/

So it looks like the father is an attention whoring scammer who orchestrated the whole thing.

[Bison]

And this is why I'm skeptical of immediate media and activist outrage.  There is always a backstory not be told and usually for a reason.

[Jarhead0331]

...apology accepted.

...now about that make-up sex?

[mirth]

...apology accepted.

...now about that make-up sex?

When does the wife leave for work?

[undercovergeek]

so the worse case scenario here is his son getting shot in the face by the police for hos own political/personal agenda

arsehole

[mirth]

arsehole

And that's putting it mildly.

[GDS_Starfury]

getting shot in the face by the police for hos

sounds very Mirthy