Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events

New submitter poity writes: After the news first broke of the 9th grader getting cuffed for scaring school officials with what turned out to be a digital clock, Ahmed Mohamed has experienced a surge of popular support — hailed as a genius and a hero, with college scholarships, internship offers, and even an invitation to the White House by President Obama himself. Now, amid rumors of possible racial discrimination lawsuits against the school and local police, some people have begun to more deeply scrutinize the details of the case, especially on the tech side with regard to the homemade clock in question. Recently, a writer at the creative site Artvoice posted a remarkable analysis of Ahmed's clock project, which raises new questions about the case and the manner in which people and the media alike have reacted. The linked analysis posits that Ahmed's clock started out as another clock, rather than a box of parts, and Ahmed can be said to have repackaged rather than "invented" a wholly new clock, but acknowledges that "none of us were there and knows what happened."

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Re:I liked the cartoon that read:

[FranTaylor]

Now he has the entire world watching him and expecting to live up to their expectations when there is no solid evidence he is gifted at all.

Feel free to judge a 12 year old for what he will do with the rest of his life! The christians are out in force tonight!

Re:My view of this

[Uberbah]

At the same time, this march of Muslims should speak out against Islamic terrorism and the sort of extremism that their religious brethren in the ISIL areas, and the Boko Haram practice in the Middle East, and Africa. Burning folks alive in cages, auctioning off 12 year old girls for sex slavery . . . this is what Islam is all about.

Or you could take this ten pounds of racist dumbfuckery in a five pound sack and cram it back up the orifice it sprang out of.

1) Muslims aren't bombing countries on the other side of the planet from them, who are zero threat to them. You are. Muslims aren't busy overthrowing democracies and starting bloody civil wars in countries they don't like. You are. Muslims don't have 900+ military bases around the world, or are responsible for 30-50 million deaths around the world since WWII - you do.

2) All this "Muslim terrorism" you're whining about is either directly sponsored by the United States, or a backlash in response to actions taken by the United States.

Isis? Created by Obama, Hillary and Kerry to fight Assad. Iran's theocracy getting you down? Wouldn't exist if the U.S. and Britain hadn't overthrown their secular democracy in '53. Don't like the Taliban? Go piss on Reagan's grave, who gave them weapons and training to fight the Soviets in the '80s.