14 year old Muslim teen Ahmed Mohamed brought his home made clock to school in Irving Tx on September 16 with the intent of showing his teachers the clock. He got arrested. He was also suspended from school for 3 days. He was arrested shortly after showing his 6th period teacher(not named) his clock. He was accused of building a fake bomb and was lead out of school by 4 officers. Mohamed was denied a phone call at the station and his dad wasn't informed until the police called.
This is just sad. Mohamed built a clock, and just wanted to show his teachers the home made clock. He said he wants to be an engineer. Mohamed worked with police and said the clock was in fact just that... A clock. This is pretty blunt racism here. Irving ISD says they have a great relationship with Muslims but this says it all. Not only did a teacher get away with calling the police about a clock but the police arrested him and denied him basic rights. How are these teachers still allowed to teach if their pulling stunts like this.
Written by Ashley Fantz & AnneClair Stapleton
www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/Texas-student-Ahmed-Muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
This is disgusting. Racism in Texas is so prominent nowadays... Just a kid who aspires to be an engineer and, instead of getting the opportunity, gets thrown in jail and treated as a terrorist.
ReplyDeleteThis story is a clear example of how racism is all around us. If a white teenager had brought in a home made clock to school, no one would have thought twice. But because this teenager was Muslim, he was arrested for his ingenuity, not praised. People need to be more aware that not all Muslims are terrorists. In fact, the majority of them are really great people. Hopefully, stories like this will change this awful and unfair stereotype.
ReplyDelete-Lisl Wangermann Period 1
This is an example of the stereotypes that have arisen because of terrorism and radical Islam. Just because of his race, he was accused of attempted massacre by this teacher, even though he didn't do anything. It's the act of making assumptions just because of race out of fear. It's terrible. -Bob Cummins Per 6
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ReplyDeleteI'm gonna try to take the light from the fact that Texas has gone zero days without being a national embarrassment and focus on the positive. He has gotten an overwhelming amount of support, is getting tweets from celebrities, was invited to the White House, and has a supportive trending Twitter hashtag. Though what happened was horrible and disgusting, I think the support and attention he's getting really points to a change in our culture in regards to Islamophobia.
It is very easy to say that these people are sickening and stereotypical ( because they are) but I also have been one to judge on stereotypes and things like that, but what they did to this child was too far. It is sad that this world is getting farther and farther away from being what our founding fathers wanted it to be.
ReplyDeleteTristin Manus 8th - This story makes me boil so much. The fact that just because this super smart kid who is very talented had to go through this terrible event just for trying to bring a clock to school. Just because he was Muslim and intelligent. Islamophobia is still alive and brewing.
ReplyDeleteNowadays racism is getting out of hand. First people get arrested for their race and now they get arrested just for making something. This kid just wanted to show off his clock he made himself and instead he got arrested.
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