Family of Muslim teen arrested for homemade clock files federal lawsuit

[Gerald]

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.

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]

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]

Please contract.

[Gargamel]

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]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

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

That's a good one.

[Skybird]

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.