Family of Muslim teen arrested for homemade clock files federal lawsuit

Gerald · 08-08-16, 07:39 PM

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The family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to his Texas school filed a federal lawsuit Monday against school officials and others, saying the incident violated the 14-year-old's civil rights, prompted death threats and forced the family to leave the United States.

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The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested at his suburban Dallas high school in September and charged with having a hoax bomb. He says he brought the homemade digital clock to school to show his English teacher.

To manufacture a bomb is easy today and it's been a relatively long time, partly with the Internet as a database for drawings.But I hope that your future will be better Ahmed, and that you do not end up in so-called "gladiator schools".

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...nap-story.html

Note: Reporting 2016.08.08 Dallas

Admiral Halsey · 08-08-16, 09:09 PM

I honestly think the school overreacted badly. However they didn't "flee" to Qatar. After this went down he got a scholarship offer from a school in Qatar and his family decided to move there. However even though it was for a scholarship I still found it so hypocritical of them talking about how this was a huge abomination of civil rights and then they move to a country where stoning is still legal, drinking a beer can get you flogged and being gay can get you five years in jail.

Oberon · 08-08-16, 10:21 PM

Please contract.

Gargamel · 08-09-16, 12:28 AM

Hopefully this doesn't end up merged in the terrorism thread, as it has nothing to do with terrorism, but what to what I am now calling "trumpism", which is basically a perverse version of xenophobia.

This kid may have loved the US at one time, but not anymore.

Oberon · 08-09-16, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Gargamel

Hopefully this doesn't end up merged in the terrorism thread

That's a good one.

Skybird · 08-09-16, 05:50 AM

When one certain group/culture notoriously creates people making troubles and waves for long enough time, then one should not be surprised if "troubles" gets associated with this group or culture by a wide public , even if the individual case in question may (or may not, who knows) have nothing to do with making troubles. Some time ago, all Germans were associated with being Nazis, no matter whether this or that individual German was a Nazi-minded one indeed or not.

Get stung often enough by a flying, yellow-black coloured tiny creature, and you sooner or later understand that wasps can sting, even if not every wasp stings you. And so you start to avoid them. Just natural.

Catfish · 08-09-16, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

When one certain group/culture notoriously ... making troubles ... then one should not be surprised if "troubles" gets associated with this group or culture by a wide public

You mean male under thirty with high testosterone levels? Kill them all

Ok i know what you mean, and there's some truth in it.

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Get stung often enough by a flying, yellow-black coloured tiny creature, and you sooner or later understand that wasps can sting, even if not every wasp stings you. And so you start to avoid them. Just natural.

Good comparison: you need this honey so badly, so you just have to destroy their nests and their inhabitants, to get it. And then you wonder why you are stung. Avoid the nests (read: oil, other resources and political influence).
It is not about dumb "Untermenschen" anymore who can't fight back. Read Churchill and you know what most of "the west" still thinks about Africans, and the Middle East.

Skybird · 08-09-16, 07:28 AM

I did not mention bees, but wasps. Very different behaviour, very different food needs at the end of summer.

Betonov · 08-09-16, 08:08 AM

Nah, I like Catfishes analogy better.

AVGWarhawk · 08-09-16, 08:17 AM

It looks like a clock to me. A gutted digital clock in a case. He did not make a clock IMO. He gutted one and placed it in the case. So tell me again why a case and gutted digital clock? Science project? He should admitted to MIT free of charge IMO.

Oberon · 08-09-16, 10:54 AM

Muslims are like insects, folks, always remember that.

August · 08-09-16, 12:56 PM

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Muslims are like insects, folks, always remember that.

What a racist thing to say.

Betonov · 08-09-16, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by August

What a racist thing to say.

That was his point

he was sarcastic

August · 08-09-16, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Betonov

That was his point

he was sarcastic

I don't think so. We all know how he is...

Oberon · 08-09-16, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by August

I don't think so. We all know how he is...

You know me, I'm all about that mix-master race:

08-08-16, 09:09 PM	#2
Admiral Halsey Best Admiral in the USN Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: USS Enterprise (CV-6) Posts: 1,740 Downloads: 317 Uploads: 0	I honestly think the school overreacted badly. However they didn't "flee" to Qatar. After this went down he got a scholarship offer from a school in Qatar and his family decided to move there. However even though it was for a scholarship I still found it so hypocritical of them talking about how this was a huge abomination of civil rights and then they move to a country where stoning is still legal, drinking a beer can get you flogged and being gay can get you five years in jail. __________________ "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years" - Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles.(Boy was he ever right.)

08-09-16, 12:28 AM	#4
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Hopefully this doesn't end up merged in the terrorism thread, as it has nothing to do with terrorism, but what to what I am now calling "trumpism", which is basically a perverse version of xenophobia. This kid may have loved the US at one time, but not anymore. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

08-09-16, 05:50 AM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	When one certain group/culture notoriously creates people making troubles and waves for long enough time, then one should not be surprised if "troubles" gets associated with this group or culture by a wide public , even if the individual case in question may (or may not, who knows) have nothing to do with making troubles. Some time ago, all Germans were associated with being Nazis, no matter whether this or that individual German was a Nazi-minded one indeed or not. Get stung often enough by a flying, yellow-black coloured tiny creature, and you sooner or later understand that wasps can sting, even if not every wasp stings you. And so you start to avoid them. Just natural. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-09-16, 07:28 AM	#8
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I did not mention bees, but wasps. Very different behaviour, very different food needs at the end of summer. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	It looks like a clock to me. A gutted digital clock in a case. He did not make a clock IMO. He gutted one and placed it in the case. So tell me again why a case and gutted digital clock? Science project? He should admitted to MIT free of charge IMO. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Please contract.

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Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Nah, I like Catfishes analogy better.

08-09-16, 10:54 AM	#11
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Muslims are like insects, folks, always remember that.