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TopicReminder: Ahmed Mohamed posted about his struggles AFTER losing the lawsuit.
K3lys
09/12/17 9:10:36 PM
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TopicPersona 5 Harlem *nsfw
K3lys
09/11/17 9:43:44 PM
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TopicAttn: frozenshock
K3lys
09/11/17 9:07:19 PM
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TopicAhmed Mohamed and your best friend fell into the sea. Which one do you save?
K3lys
09/11/17 9:03:43 PM
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Ahmed Mohamed and your best friend fell into the sea. Which one do you save?


Ahmed Mohamed and your best friend (who can't swim) fell into the sea. Which one do you save?

The unsaved one will die.

There is a high chance that you will be labelled an Islamophobic if you saved your best friend instead of the Ahmed.
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TopicClock Boy Ahmed Blames 9/11 For Incident That Made Him Famous, Hangs Out With
K3lys
09/11/17 7:52:36 PM
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TopicClock Boy Ahmed Blames 9/11 For Incident That Made Him Famous, Hangs Out With
K3lys
09/10/17 10:06:56 PM
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Clock Boy Ahmed Blames 9/11 For Incident That Made Him Famous, Hangs Out With Saddam Sympathizer

Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teen who became famous after being placed in handcuffs over concerns that a reformatted “clock” he brought to school resembled a hoax bomb, went on Twitter on the 15th anniversary of 9/11 to cast himself as the real victim of the terror attacks, which he blamed for last year’s clock incident.

After September 11, Ahmed said, “I got falsely accused, humiliated, and fingerprinted at age of 14.”

Included in the tweet were several screenshots of things other people had tweeted using the #afterseptember11 hashtag.

On Monday, Ahmed tweeted a picture of himself alongside a Middle Eastern man. The man’s name is named Nawaf Al Maghames, according to the Snapchat caption. Maghames’s Twitter feed reveals him to be an admirer of Saddam Hussein.

On Sept. 10, Maghames tweeted a picture of Hussein. The caption, written in Arabic, calls Hussein a “martyr” and makes references to “pigs and dogs.”

The picture depicts Hussein in a hangman’s noose, standing in front of a crowd of cheering, pig-faced men. In the picture, Hussein is surrounded by dogs wearing hangmen’s clothes.

Another pictured tweeted the same day by the man shows Hussein in handcuffs with guards on either side. A translation of the caption reads, “One moment. Changed the face of the Arab and Muslim world!”

It’s unclear how Maghames and Ahmed know each other.

After the clock incident (and his subsequent rise to fame), Ahmed and his family spent a year living in Qatar while he studied on a scholarship provided by the Qatari royal family.
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Topicyr: Taylor Swift marries Ahmed Mohammed
K3lys
09/07/17 8:32:17 PM
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Topicyr: Taylor Swift marries Ahmed Mohammed
K3lys
09/07/17 8:17:48 PM
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TopicTexas Sikh boy arrested after 'bully accused him of having a bomb'
K3lys
09/06/17 8:37:17 PM
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Texas authorities arrested an American Sikh child over what his family said on social media was a bully’s allegation that he had a bomb.

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Arlington police on Friday arrested Armaan Sing Sarai, 12, late last week after a fellow student, who “thought it would be funny”, accused him of having a bomb, his cousin Ginee Haer said in a Facebook post. The prinicipal of Nichols Junior High, where the child went to school, called the authorities “without any questioning, interrogation or notification to his parents,” she said, adding that police held him at a juvenile facility for three days before he was released.

Ms Haer said the boy’s family had moved to Dallas less than a half year ago.

Nichols Junior High School Principal Julie Harcrow and the Arlington County Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Independent.

The incident comes a few months after another Texas teen, Ahmed Mohamed, was arrested on false accusations of having a bomb

The incident comes months after a similar incident in Irving, when Texas 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s English teacher thought a homemade clock he’d brought to school was potentially a bomb. Mr Mohamed was arrested and later released, but his case drew the ire of international media over an apparent instance of Islamophobia against the Muslim youth.

Mr Mohamed and his family has since moved to Qatar, where he received a scholarship.

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Ahmed, his clock, and his smile of victory.
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Topicyr: Taylor Swift marries Ahmed Mohammed
K3lys
09/06/17 8:32:47 PM
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TopicI present to you the American Muslim of the Year
K3lys
09/05/17 8:13:22 PM
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Ahmed Mohamed, otherwise known as “Clock Kid,” was dubbed the “American Muslim of the Year” by a Muslim civil rights group.

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The Council of American-Islamic Relations awarded the 14-year-old the honor over the weekend during the organization’s 21st annual banquet in Arlington, Virginia. The Washington Examiner reported that the award was in the shape of a clock.

“I just want to stop discrimination for everyone, not just for religious, but for all races as well,” Mohamed said at the event, according to the Examiner.

CAIR said on Facebook that the event was overpacked and extra tables were needed to accommodate all of the guests.

Aside from Mohamed, other winners at the event included the Republic of Turkey, which received the 2015 Humanitarian Award, and Dr. Hisham Altalib, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mohamed first made national headlines in September after he was detained for bringing a homemade clock to school that authorities and school officials said resembled a bomb. Just last week the teenager traveled to meet Sudan’s President Omer Hassan al-Bashir — a leader who has been accused of war crimes and orchestrating genocide.

“I am coming home, tell the world I am coming home #sudan,” Mohamed said in a tweet Tuesday prior to landing in Sudan.

The young student is expected to attend the second annual Astronomy Night at the White House Monday night.

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Topic4 years later, what are your opinions on Ahmed Mohamed?
K3lys
09/04/17 8:29:50 PM
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The Ahmed Mohamed clock incident occurred when a 14-year-old student, Ahmed Mohamed, was arrested on September 14, 2015, at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing an alleged hoax bomb to school. The incident ignited allegations of racial profiling and Islamophobia from some media and commentators.

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TopicDoes Islam forbid men from touching women?
K3lys
08/31/17 9:26:13 PM
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TopicPolice video shows the tragic consequences when drug-driver Ahmed Mohamed from
K3lys
08/31/17 8:30:34 PM
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Police video shows the tragic consequences when drug-driver Ahmed Mohamed from Woolwich was distracted on his phone and crashed on the A2 killing driver Mark Sharp

Warning: The video above may upset some people. Watch with caution.

A drug-driver who was using his mobile phone while speeding down a road has been jailed for his part in a fatal collision on the A2.

At 5.10am on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 46-year-old Mark Sharp was driving coastbound on the A2 when his Nissan Micra was involved in a crash just before the M25 slip road.

He came to a stop in lane two, put his hazard lights on and called emergency services. He remained in his car.

Several other vehicles were then immediately in collision at the scene.

A short time later, aware of the lane closures ahead due to warning signs along the carriageway, vehicles were slowing down to move into lane one past the incident.

Stuart Lomas, 63, of Upper Wickham Lane in Welling, crashed into Mr Sharp’s car causing it to move into the third lane.

Two seconds later, 28-year-old Ahmed Mohamed of Ann Street in Woolwich crashed at speed into Mr Sharp’s car.

Mr Sharp died at the scene.

Tests on Mohamed’s blood showed he had 6.4 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood. The legal limit is 2 micrograms.

Mohamed admitted causing death by careless driving whilst over the prescribed limit of drugs. He was also using his mobile phone at the time.

He was sentenced to four years 11 months imprisonment and a five-year driving ban to begin upon his release.

Lomas pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court on Monday, June 26, to one count of careless driving.

He was sentenced on Tuesday, June 27, to six penalty points, fined £375 and ordered to pay £250 court costs.

Senior investigating officer, Sergeant Chris Wade of the serious collision investigation unit, said that had the drivers followed the highway code that this death could have been avoided.

He said: “Both of these drivers had been driving in the second lane, and if they had been travelling in lane one - as per Highway Code guidance - like many cars before them, they could have both passed the crashed cars without incident.

“Regardless of whether you drive the same stretch of road daily or not, drivers need to remain alert that these incidents can occur at anytime, anywhere, and to anyone, and complacency and lack of concentration can - and does - lead to tragic consequences.

“My thoughts are with Mr Sharp’s family who have shown the utmost dignity and understanding in what has been a very prolonged and distressing case for them, and I thank them for their support throughout.”
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TopicSarah Palin: Ahmed Was Asking For It When He Brought His Clock To School
K3lys
08/30/17 8:13:11 PM
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“Right. That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen of England.”

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said on Saturday that arresting and suspending Ahmed Mohamed, the ninth grader who brought a homemade clock to school, was totally reasonable.

Palin called initial media reports of Mohamed’s arrest “fishy” and said that school officials were totally justified in thinking that his clock, made out of a pencil box, was a bomb.

“Yep, believing that’s a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history,” she wrote in a Facebook post in which she shared pictures of her kids’ pencil boxes. “Right. That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen of England.”

Palin also compared the incident to others in which students were suspended and said that Mohamed was obviously an “obstinate-answering student.”

“Friends, consider the kids disciplined and/or kicked out of school for bringing squirt guns to school or taking bites out of a pop tart until it resembled (to some politically correct yahoo) a gun. Or the student out deer hunting with his dad early one morning who forgot he had a box of ammo in his truck when he parked in the school’s lot later that day,” she wrote. “Whereas Ahmed Muhammad, an evidently obstinate-answering student bringing in a homemade ‘clock’ that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told ‘if you see something, say something!’) gets invited to the White House.”

In 2013, a Maryland school suspended a 7-year-old after he chewed his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun and began waving it around. School officials said that the suspension was prompted by the boy’s disruptive behavior and not the Pop Tart.

In 2010, six students at a Michigan high school were suspended after school officials found firearms in their car that they had used on a deer hunt earlier that morning. School policy and signs clearly forbade the students from bringing the firearms onto school property.

In Mohamed’s case, police knew that the clock wasn’t a bomb but arrested him anyway.

Like her daughter Bristol, the former Alaska governor also criticized Obama for inviting the teen to the White House.

“By the way, President Obama’s practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day, got old years ago,” she wrote. “Remember him accusing police officers doing their job as “acting stupid”; claiming if he had a son, he’d look like Trayvon Martin; claiming he needed to know who was a fault in an industrial accident so he’d ‘know who’s a** to kick’; etc., etc. Those actions are about as presidential as his selfie stick.”

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Topicthe truth about Ahmed Mohamed that K3lys doesn't want you to know
K3lys
08/30/17 3:57:00 AM
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everyone knows this
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TopicPost your birthday wishes to Ahmed Mohamed and I will tweet it to him.
K3lys
08/29/17 11:35:57 PM
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TopicTwo Little White Girls React To Receiving Black Dolls For Christmas
K3lys
08/29/17 9:01:44 PM
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in other news,

Students of color are regularly perceived as troublemakers in school

It’s not outside the realm of a school’s responsibilities to ask questions about anything brought into the building that could be used for violence. However, I cannot help but wonder if Mohamed’s racial and religious background inspired the depth and breadth of the investigation.

The statistical reality in this nation is that children of color are more likely to be perceived as engaged in negative behavior at school and tend to receive harsher discipline. Even outside of direct punishment, students of color face a variety of forms of subtle racism in their exchanges with teachers and administrations.
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TopicClock Boy's sister was suspended for 'BOMB' threat.
K3lys
08/29/17 8:12:27 PM
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Mohamed’s family now plans to meet dignitaries at the United Nations. After they visit Mecca in Saudi Arabia, they plan to meet with Obama.

Obama’s hasty entrance into the story has frustrated officials, most notably Irving, Texas, Mayor Beth Van Duyne.

Van Duyne said Sept. 22 the family of Ahmed Mohammed has refused to meet with city officials or release records exonerating police conduct, Pamela Geller, founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, said Wednesday on her website.

“As a juvenile, they can not release those records. The school district, a number of times, has asked the family, to release the records, so that you can have the balanced story out there. The family is ignoring the request from the ISD,” Van Duyne said while appear on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze TV on Tuesday, Townhall.com reported. “Nobody is going to walk in and say, ‘Oh you’re a 14-year old child, you’re totally cooperating, we have all the answers we need, let’s arrest you.”

The family reportedly hired lawyers to retrieve the clock from police. Hours after that announcement, police said the clock was ready to be picked up.
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TopicClock Boy's sister was suspended for 'BOMB' threat.
K3lys
08/29/17 8:12:23 PM
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The 17-year-old sister of Muslim “clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed says she too was suspended from school due to a “bomb”-related accusation.

Eyman Mohamed told the Daily Beast during a day-long interview with the family Sept. 17 about an incident where she was accused of wanting to blow up her school.

“I got suspended from school for three days from this stupid same district, from this girl saying I wanted to blow up the school, something I had nothing to do with,” Mohamed told the Daily Beast. “I got suspended and I didn’t do anything about it. And so, when I heard about Ahmed, I was so mad because it happened to me and I didn’t get to stand up, so I’m making sure he’s standing up because it’s not right. So I’m not jealous. I’m kinda like – it’s like he’s standing for me.”

The young girl said her suspension did not take place at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas. Instead, her punishment came during her first year of middle school when the family moved to the state from New York City.

“I knew English, but the culture was different, the people were different,” Mohamed told the Daily Beast.

The 17-year-old’s claim continues a string of strange developments surrounding the Sept. 14 detention of her 14-year-old brother when a clock he “invented” was suspected of being a bomb.

“House of War: Islam’s Jihad Against the World” conveys what the West needs to know about Islam and the violent, expansionary ideology that seeks the subjugation and destruction of other faiths, cultures and systems of government

NBA owner Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks told HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher last Friday he spoke to Ahmed on the phone but was puzzled as to why his sister kept trying to feed him answers.

“We talked about science, but while I’m talking to him on the phone, as I ask him a question, ‘Tell me what happened because I’m curious.’ Right? His sister, over his shoulder, you could hear, listening to the question, giving him the answer,” Cuban said, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.

Electronics expert Thomas Talbot also posted a video Sept. 18 on the fraudulent nature of Mohamed’s so-called “invention,” arguing that the device was not an invention at all.

Talbot said the boy appears to have simply ripped out existing components from a standard digital alarm clock. After removing the plastic cover, he said, Mohamed attached the internal components to the inside of a suitcase, WND reported.

“This child, nothing against him personally, never built a clock,” said Talbot, WND reported. “He did not invent a clock or build it, and I’m going to show you why. … What this is is a commercial alarm clock, as you would purchase in any department store and use at your bedside. All he did was remove the plastic case from the alarm clock. This is not an invention. This is not something that someone built or even assembled.”

Mohamed’s ordeal prompted President Obama to invite the teenager to the White House.

“Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great,” tweeted Obama Sept. 16.
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TopicToday is Ahmed Mohamed's birthday.
K3lys
08/29/17 2:19:15 AM
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TopicTexas mayor and Sharia law crusader Beth Van Duyne starts regional HUD job
K3lys
08/28/17 11:35:37 PM
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Texas mayor and Sharia law crusader Beth Van Duyne starts regional HUD job in Trump administration.

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The Texas mayor best known for crusading against Sharia law and being sued by the family of “clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed started a new gig this week in President Trump’s Housing and Urban Development department.

“I strongly believe that government should be limited and that it should be focused on helping those that need it the most,” Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne told the Texas Tribune from her Fort Worth HUD office.

The two-term mayor — the first woman in Irving to hold the position — is “still absorbing as much information as possible,” she told the paper, adding that she found HUD Secretary Ben Carson “so optimistic.’”

As the Southwest regional HUD administrator, Van Duyne will oversee operations in Texas and its adjacent states New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

But prior to nabbing her federal government job, Van Duyne made national headlines for her hardline immigration stance and controversial comments on her northeast Texas city’s Muslim population.

Most memorably, she served up a passionate response to reports of an Islamic tribunal in Irving issuing non-binding rulings on civil disputes using Sharia law.

In March of that year, according to the Dallas News, she backed a controversial state bill barring judges from using “foreign law” — an initiative Irving Muslims saw as a vehicle for Islamophobia.

Van Duyne also, until earlier this year, was named as a co-defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by the father of Mohamed, the Muslim teen accused in 2015 of bringing a hoax bomb to school.

The suit cited Van Duyne’s Sept. 21, 2015, visit to Glenn Beck’s show, where the host posited a theory that “for some reason Irving is important to the Islamists, not the Muslims, but the Islamists” in some larger plot. Van Duyne “did not object to or correct any of the comments,” the suit claimed.

Van Duyne and Beck were both dismissed from the defamation lawsuit in January.

“Am I disgusted by what Trump has said about women? Yes. Do I agree that he’s the best we Republicans have to offer? No,” she wrote on Ozy.com. “Will I be voting for him? Absolutely.”

Van Duyne also comes highly recommended by disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, himself a purveyor of inflammatory anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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TopicObservation test: Is this a weapon or an over-sized door stopper?
K3lys
08/28/17 11:28:21 PM
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TopicPost your birthday wishes to Ahmed Mohamed and I will tweet it to him.
K3lys
08/28/17 9:10:21 PM
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TopicToday is Ahmed Mohamed's birthday.
K3lys
08/28/17 8:07:21 PM
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TopicFather of Texas 'clock boy' sues Glenn Beck, Fox
K3lys
08/28/17 8:04:44 PM
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TopicObservation test: Is this a weapon or an over-sized door stopper?
K3lys
08/27/17 11:20:40 PM
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TopicLol NBA 2k18
K3lys
08/27/17 11:01:34 PM
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America got Dunk'd edition
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TopicIrving, Texas Mayor on Ahmed Mohamed
K3lys
08/27/17 10:52:22 PM
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Topicwatched Death Note on Netflix last night, god damn what a stupid anime
K3lys
08/27/17 9:04:40 PM
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Light Turner lol
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TopicAhmed Mohamed's Briefcase Clock is a Hoax
K3lys
08/27/17 9:02:55 PM
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The Ahmed Mohamed Bomb Scandal will forever mark a dark day in American history, the day that a scheming student likely coached by his father brought in a hoax bomb to school and began showing it off to his teachers in hopes of baiting out a reaction. Since the beginning people knew this was a fishy topic, it wasn't until someone tracked down the exact clock Mohammed used in his hoax that had solid evidence that he was intellectually dishonest. Ahmed claimed to have created a working "clock" in his briefcase, a clock that appears to be a bunch of wires hanging out of a circuit board with a giant time display on it, something that anyone would have no trouble mistaking for a bomb. Ahmed didn't create anything. Instead, he just took a clock apart and assembled it inside of a pencil case on a circuit board.


According to witnesses, Ahmed had been showing his hoax bomb to teachers in the previous classes and it wasn't until an afternoon class later in the day that someone got scared and sent Mohammed to the principals office which triggered a chain of events that lead to the police coming to the school to arrest and take Mohammed away to the police station for questioning on what exactly he had created.

Ahmed wasted no time in turning to the internet to beg for money, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations for no particular cause and getting thousands of dollars in free merchandise from companies around the world and invitations to the White House by Obama who wasted no time in what was a prime opportunity for a photo shoot, something he probably regrets now that evidence that Ahmed knew what he was doing has come to light.

Mohammed's family left to go back to Qatar, a change that Ahmed tweets on Twitter that he dislikes as "there is nothing to do in Qatar." So the Mohammed's family moved back to America. And wasted no time in another lawsuit against the school system for millions of dollars. Various local news outlets reported on the hoax now that it was public knowledge such as Fox News, so Mohammed's dad sued them to, making it even more clear the only thing this family cares about is money. Luckily the cases are being thrown out, and we can all watch with joy as Mohammed fades back into obscurity as an unfortunate black mark in America's history as a day someone managed to take advantage of the entire country.
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TopicAmerica Needs More Kids Like Ahmed Mohamed
K3lys
08/27/17 8:58:48 PM
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The response to the arrest and suspension of a ninth-grader after he brought a homemade clock to school has been a timely, heartwarming reminder that we are a nation of makers.

Ahmed Mohamed’s incident has catalyzed a national discussion about bias, race and education. What happened to him should also get us talking about the state of our freedom to build, create, and make.

Mohamed, of Irving, Texas, had hoped to show off his device to teachers Monday, but it was mistaken for a bomb. The 14-year-old student, a Muslim of Sudanese descent, was taken to a juvenile detention center. He has since been released and isn’t going to be charged by the Irving police department, but, at the time of writing, he remains suspended from school.

As Americans, we are endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Whether we find happiness writing software code in a dorm room, rebuilding a car engine in a garage or working at a lab bench, every American kid needs the “freedom to tinker,” no matter what their gender, color or creed.

Inventing, tinkering and hacking have been part of America since its inception. One of our founding fathers, Ben Franklin, was a tinkerer, earning an international reputation for his inventions and contributions to science. Experimentation, education, imagination and perspiration have been central to the innovation that led to the technological marvels surrounding us today.

That kind of restless curiosity leads to the creativity and engineering excellence that has enabled Americans to go to the moon, create the Internet and apply breakthroughs in basic science to invent the smartphone. Unfortunately, as The Verge highlighted, high school students in the United States are lagging in math and science among countries studied by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

When the World Economic Forum ranks your country 49th on health and primary education, the charging of a high school student with a felony for a lab accident and the arresting of young inventors is exactly the opposite of the way forward.

While we might understand the caution the Irving School District displayed in its handling of Ahmed Mohamed, both the teachers and the police could have reacted better to the young man coming forward with the device.

gnorance, technophobia, racism and Islamophobia only hold back the people whose talents are needed now and in the future. In this young century, we need everyone to understand how important being able to build and maintain technology is to our collective future. In particular, we need legislators, educators and the justice system to adjust, given the power and discretion they have to derail the lives of our young people.

If Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had been arrested for phone phreaking or pranks as young men, we wouldn’t have Apple today.

They’re far from alone in the tech industry, which is full of people who took things apart to understand how they worked, eventually learning how to put them together to make something new. The reason that makers and hackers care so much about the freedom to tinker is that doing so has frequently been fundamental to their intellectual and professional development.

We don’t just need more Ahmed Mohameds in the United States of America. We need to keep inspiring more men and women like him to come here from other countries.

We need them to learn in our universities, found companies and join laboratories, and then teach others, just as generations of other immigrants have come to pursue the American dream and give their own children more opportunities.

We need to encourage our daughters and sons of immigrants to “think different” in our young century, providing them with the space and support to make mistakes.
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TopicWhy It Matters That Ahmed Mohamed Is Both Black and Muslim
K3lys
08/24/17 9:11:43 PM
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Things seem to have only gotten worse for black and Muslim communities since, not the least of in my own city, New York, a supposed bastion of liberalism that has in the past two decades routinely and egregiously violated the civil liberties of its black, Muslim and Latino residents.

To me, the debate about whether Ahmed is “Muslim” or “black” and to which part of him the Irving school system and police department responded misses the point. Firstly, because as some have pointed out, “Muslim” and “black” are not mutually exclusive categories.

Secondly, because the debate fails to recognize that it is only because Muslims have been racialized that most Americans have particular ideas of who one is, and what she or he is supposed to look or act like. As Saher Selod writes, Muslims’ “religious identities have acquired racial meanings associating their bodies with terror and violence resulting in their increased experiences with racism.”

Thirdly, and this is the point I’d like to emphasize, the “what is Ahmed” debate is a distraction from a more urgent question. More than one in four Muslim Americans identify as black, and one in three as Asian or Latino. Why isn’t there more solidarity and cross-movement organizing between those fighting Islamophobia and others battling to bring an end to America’s deeply rooted structural racism, which feeds the school to prison pipeline and mass incarceration?

As Crenshaw explains in a recent op-ed piece in the Washington Post, “the term [intersectionality] brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members, but often fail to represent them.” This invisibility currently characterizes the position of black Muslims in their own communities.

Islamohophia actively builds on structural racism, at the very least through the use of its tools (aggressive policing, hyper surveillance). Americans face a web of interlocking subjugations that draw on various configurations of class, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. Movements and organizations that have operated largely independently from one another need to do a better job of realizing that discrimination rarely operates along one axis, and to organize accordingly. Otherwise, they risk leaving those they are meant to serve “invisible in plain sight.”

One last point: Much of the media’s focus in the Ahmed Mohamed story, and ours in turn, has been on President Obama’s invitation to the teenager to visit the White House, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s encouraging words. Not insignificant acts by any means, least of all I imagine to Ahmed himself, who was stripped of his dignity and rights in front of his whole school.

But the response is also symptomatic of what America is prone to do: turn these kind of stories into a greeting card — “Sorry you were profiled. Know that you are precious.” That’s just not enough anymore. It never was, otherwise we wouldn’t be facing “outrageous” stories again and again.
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TopicWhy It Matters That Ahmed Mohamed Is Both Black and Muslim
K3lys
08/24/17 9:11:40 PM
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Like Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old teenager from Irving, Texas arrested for bringing a clock to school, I grew up Sudanese and Muslim in America, though of a different generation. My family moved to the United States from Khartoum in 1990, when I was 12 years old. In the mid ‘90s, when I attended high school in New York, bringing a home-made clock to school would not have resulted in arrest. Muslims were treated as backward, though rarely dangerous.

Ahmed Mohamed lives in a different time. It wasn’t long after his arrest that social media began debating who he is and what impact his identity had on what transpired. For the most part, news reports referred to him as “a Muslim boy,” his own family emphasizing his religious identity as the reason why, in Ahmed’s words, he was made to feel like “a terrorist.”

Meanwhile, on twitter, black Muslims used the hashtag #beingblackandmuslim to discuss Ahmed’s case and their experiences. Others wondered what would have happened if he was black. Others still called for his blackness not to be ignored. Africa is a country, an influential cultural blog, waded in with a tweet. Even the Washington Post ran an article on the subject.

I have no idea how Ahmed and the rest of his family identify beyond this specific incident. What I do know is how America perceives someone that looks like him and carries his name. The “is it because he is Muslim? Black? Both?” question is an interesting one to ponder, but practically, not an easy one to answer.

Ahmed’s case is a classic example of intersectionality — a term coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in the 1980s. Building on the work of others before her, Crenshaw grappled with a specific problem: why had women of color been left, in her words, “invisible in plain sight” by both feminist and anti-racist movements? The conclusion she reached was that “the kind of discrimination people have conceptualized is limited because they stop their thinking when the discrimination encounters another kind of discrimination”. In a passage from a 1989 essay that has since become famous, Crenshaw writes:

Consider an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions. Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow in one direction, and it may flow in another. If an accident happens in an intersection, it can be caused by cars traveling from any number of directions and, sometimes, from all of them. Similarly, if a Black woman is harmed because she is in the intersection, her injury could result from sex discrimination or race discrimination...But it is not always easy to reconstruct an accident: Sometimes the skid marks and the injuries simply indicate that they occurred simultaneously, frustrating efforts to determine which driver caused the harm.
Taking this analogy and applying it to Ahmed, we find him standing at a dangerous intersection in modern America: Islamophobia meets white supremacy. Black Muslims face, at the very least, a double discrimination in the United States. In the years immediately following 9/11, my sisters and I used to say only half-jokingly that we felt “black in the street, Muslim at the airport.” If we had been veiled, we would have felt Muslim on the street as well.

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TopicHis Name Is Ahmed Mohamed, Not Clock Kid
K3lys
08/24/17 9:10:15 PM
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Why the seemingly cute nickname is a problem.

It was reported this week that Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas teen who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, is receiving a full-ride academic scholarship in Qatar.

It’s certainly amazing news for Mohamed and his family, who received rousing on the Internet after the teen’s arrest in September. But there’s also been a subtle, off-putting trend in the reporting of this latest development. Numerous outlets, from New York magazine to Slate, have referred to Mohamed as “Clock Kid” in their headlines.

But... can we not?

Yes, it’s a pithy, headline-friendly moniker, an easy way to quickly get across that the kid who built that clock is the subject of this article. But Ahmed Mohamed has a name, and as innocuous as using “Clock Kid” might seem, it devalues the severity of what actually happened to him.

His story has, ultimately, been a positive one. From being unfairly profiled by his teacher to meeting the president of the United States and now, getting the academic opportunity of a lifetime, Mohamed’s story is a best-case scenario. But there are tons of kids (and adults, for that matter) who deal with this kind of religious and racial profiling who don’t get a press conference or a tweet from POTUS.

Clock Kid,” for all its expedience, subtly colors Mohamed’s story as just a harmless misadventure. It wasn’t. The initial horror at what happened to Mohamed has devolved into a kind of feel-good human interest story where we seem to only vaguely acknowledge that the reason we even know who he is is because he was unfairly arrested as a suspected terrorist. Over a clock.

That’s what made the #IStandWithAhmed campaign so important — it named Mohamed, acknowledged his humanity, and reminded us that we were standing with him against Islamaphobia and racism. “Clock Kid” may be seemingly cute, but all it does is mask a problem that we still, unfortunately, insist on avoiding.
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TopicYou Can Now Donate to the Ahmed Mohamed STEM Scholarship Fund
K3lys
08/23/17 8:25:17 PM
#8
This is what's wrong with America:

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TopicYou Can Now Donate to the Ahmed Mohamed STEM Scholarship Fund
K3lys
08/23/17 8:20:30 PM
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On Wednesday, the story of Ahmed Mohamed erupted online. The 14-year-old from Irving, Texas, was suspended from MacArthur High School and arrested after he brought a homemade clock to school that a teacher mistook for a bomb.

After the story went viral and gained widespread support, Mohamed's family created a LaunchGood initiative on Wednesday seeking to add some cold hard cash to the teenager's newfound fame. The #IStandWithAhmed campaign hopes to raise money to support Mohamed and others like him with a scholarship to pursue their education in a STEM field.

Within hours of its creation, the campaign raised more than $7,500 and appears well-positioned to reach a stated $100,000 goal by the end of the fundraising period in 27 days.

The campaign's official page read, in part:

The funds will be used to help Ahmed further his education and to help other curious students like him interest in STEM fields have access to MakerSpaces where they can use high tech equipment like 3D Printers, CNC Machines, and all sorts of other cool stuff. Young curious minds are not a threat. As a nation, let's support our youth in increasing their competitiveness in science and technology development because this is what will make out country strong.
According to the campaign, 50% of the funds will be allocated to Mohamed, while the other 50% will be given to other promising youths toward a one-year scholarship to MakerSpace.

The funding campaign was only the latest in an outpouring of support for the embattled teen. Throughout Wednesday, the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed was heavily trending, with both President Barack Obama and leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeting their firm support.

While Mohamed previously told the Dallas Morning News that the experience made him feel inhuman, his tone was markedly different at a Wednesday afternoon press conference in Irving to announce the charges against him had been dropped.

"Don't let people change who you are," said a smiling Mohamed, flanked by well-wishers and his family.


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TopicScenario: Your daughter would like to marry this inventor she met on Tinder.
K3lys
08/22/17 11:24:32 PM
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TopicAhmed Mohamed is now a Health Researcher.
K3lys
08/22/17 10:12:24 PM
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On a sunny afternoon in North Carolina, Ahmed Mohamed sits in a coffee shop more than 4,000 miles away from his childhood home in Mauritania, Africa. As he describes his previous life as a desert nomad, it quickly becomes apparent that his journey – across decades, careers and continents – was made possible by a remarkable tenacity.

He returns to considering his belief that money should never be the goal.

“By being productive and making a difference, you will become successful and be compensated. That’s why money must come last, because it will come at the end. Different people have different motivations, but I can’t be motivated by money. For example, if I made a discovery that I could sell, I wouldn’t charge money for it because this takes money away from other people. My net contribution will always be positive because I will always give without taking.”

Just before we part to make our way to our own cars I remark on his extraordinary achievements, perhaps the most impressive being his decision to leave home so he could go against the norm and draw his own conclusions. I even suggest that these actions make him brave, but he shakes his head. That’s not what it’s about.

“We never feel sorry for ourselves and never brag,” he reminds me, and then smiles, remembering something. “You know, I saw something written on a coat earlier today. It said ‘The best way out is through.’ I think that’s a pretty good motto.”

https://news.ncsu.edu/2017/01/ahmed-mohamed-2017/
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TopicOregon schoolboy suspended after teacher mistakes homemade charger for a bomb
K3lys
08/22/17 9:04:48 PM
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School authorities decided Levi Frunk, 15, had 'disrupted school' and barred him from playing in a homecoming football match
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An Oregon teenager was suspended from school after bringing in a homemade phone charger, which a teacher mistook for a bomb.

Home electronics enthusiast Levi Frunk, a 15-year-old student at Sandy High School near Portland, left his phone charging on the DIY device in a locker room during weight training with the school’s football squad.

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When his football coach spotted the charger, he believed it was an explosive device, called security and began evacuating the area – until Frunk realised what had happened and explained that the contraption was harmless.

Nevertheless, school authorities decided he had violated a rule in the student handbook that forbids “disrupting school” and suspended him for a day and a half. He was also barred from playing in a homecoming football match.

His sister Kiki Stonebraker said the charger was not out of the ordinary for her brother, who is keen on technology. “He’s super smart. He’s always built things, he’s always taking things apart, she said. “Growing up with him, that stuff was laying around our house all the time.”

The incident recalls the case of Ahmed Mohamed, the student whose homemade clock was also mistaken for a bomb by teachers at his Texas high school in 2015. Unlike Frunk, Mohamed was handcuffed and questioned by police for ninety minutes.

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The case, which to many smacked of Islamophobia, earned the 14-year-old Mohamed an invitation to the White House.
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TopicTop Conspiracy Theories On Ahmed Mohamed Clock
K3lys
08/22/17 8:58:50 PM
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Writing for Breitbart, Ben Shapiro suspects that a big political propaganda by the Obama administration is behind the controversy. He noted that there had been a long list of students being detained for mistaken experiments. Such is the case of 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot of Florida who was arrested for an experiment involving toilet cleaner and aluminum foil in 2013. Shapiro stressed that Mr. Obama, unlike with Ahmed’s case, was missing in action at the time of Wilmot’s arrest.

Why did Obama jump on this (Ahmed) story? Why did Hillary jump on this story? Where were they for then-16-year-old Kiera Wilmot of Florida to the White House after she was arrested and suspended in 2013 for bringing an experiment with toilet cleaner and aluminum foil to school?” Shapiro wrote.

Shapiro then explained that “for years, the Obama administration has pushed the notion that American Muslims are in danger of Islamophobic backlash. So where, exactly, are all the invitations to Jewish students targeted in hate crime incidents? They don’t exist, because they don’t help President Obama castigate America as xenophobic and backwards.”

Steve Watson of Infowars.com is singing the same tune. “At the very least this situation was quickly seized on by special interest groups and the White House to push their agendas, and at worst it seems it was a complete setup,” he wrote.

Controversial political figure, Sarah Palin, will not let this one pass to attack Mr. Obama. In a Facebook post, she said that Ahmed clock is another of Mr. Obama’s “practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day.” She added that this tactic “got old years ago.”
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TopicTop Conspiracy Theories On Ahmed Mohamed Clock
K3lys
08/22/17 8:58:46 PM
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Thomas Talbot, a medical virtual reality scientist, alleges Ahmed intentionally designed the clock to be suspicious to get the attention he is getting now.

Conspiracy theories swirled around the case of Ahmed Mohamed, the boy who was arrested and handcuffed by police because of his homemade clock mistaken to be a bomb when brought in school. Richard Dawkins, a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and known atheist, suspects Ahmed has an ulterior motive. Thomas Talbot, a known medical virtual reality scientist, alleges Ahmed intentionally designed the clock to be suspicious to get the attention he is getting now. An anonymous engineering enthusiast dissected Ahmed’s clock and concluded that it is indeed a hoax bomb. Various media reports, including Sarah Palin, think the whole controversy is one of President Barack Obama’s propaganda.

Dawkins suffered social media backlash when he first tweeted about his doubts on Ahmed. “What was his motive? Whether or not he wanted the police to arrest him, they shouldn’t have done so,” Dawkins said in his tweet. He later added, “Yes, there are other reasons why a boy might take a clock out of its casing & pretend he’d made it. Trying to impress teachers, for instance.” Dawkins tweets were accompanied by a video from Talbot and a link to an article from artvoice.com titled “Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock and Ourselves.” Dawkins further tweeted: “If the reassembled components did something more than the original clock, that’s creative. If not, it looks like hoax.”

The video from Talbot, titled “Ahmed Mohamed Clock is FRAUD,” alleged that the clock in the center of the hullabaloo “is in fact not an invention. The clock is a commercial bedside alarm clock removed from its casing.” The video has been viewed for more than 700,000 times since being posted on YouTube.

Read more: Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock: Google, Facebook, White House All Want It!

In the video, Talbot explained that the clock has printed circuit boards and ribbon cables; 9-volt battery back-up. All these proved that it was a mass-produced product. “This was put in here to look like a device, with these cables and these… to look like a device that would be suspicious, and I think intentionally so. This is simply taking a clock out of its case, and I think probably for provocative reasons, intentionally,” Talbot said in the video.

The anonymous blogger/engineer behind the article “Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock and Ourselves” also dissected the clock. He found that the original clock was listed on eBay and was actually invented by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidiary. The pencil case on the other hand was listed on Amazon. The anonymous blogger, known only with his first name Anthony, concluded his long piece saying “Ahmed Mohamed did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation.” He further concluded that “is it possible, that maybe, just maybe, this was actually a hoax bomb? A silly prank that was taken the wrong way? That the media then ran with, and everyone else got carried away? Maybe there wasn’t even any racial or religious bias on the parts of the teachers and police.”
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TopicClock Boy's uncle says it's time to take a seat at Irving City Hall
K3lys
08/22/17 2:28:06 AM
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Irving mayoral candidate Elvia Espino also joined Elhassan's Saturday event and encouraged his group of supporters to vote.

"We need all people that live in District 5 to come out and vote for the right person," she told the crowd. "The more we vote, then there will be people like my friend, people like me and people like you at the table who can make decisions that benefit us all."

Anthony Bond, an activist and founder of the Irving NAACP branch, said he has tried to encourage Elhassan to run for a council position for some time. Bond said he believes Elhassan has the personality to hold a leadership position in Irving.

"Abdel is one of the most humble men I've ever met," Bond said. "I really like that about him, and I like that about anybody."

Bond said Elhassan laughingly dismisses any negative comments he has gotten about his campaign.
"It's amazing to me," Bond said. "He said just because he's Muslim doesn't mean he's not qualified. That is a typical answer for the type of person he is."

Representation for everybody
Elhassan said he wants to encourage more people to participate in Irving politics and hopes his campaign will help do that.

"A lot of people are not aware," he said. "They don't care much about local government, which has some dire issues that we face every day."

Elhassan said he believes that lack of interest may be because some residents don't see themselves represented though the city's elected officials. Currently, Irving's City Council has only one minority, Dennis Webb in Place 3.

Elhassan said he'd like the city's governing body to have more diversity, to reflect the city's racial and ethnic makeup. The latest figures show Irving's overall population stands at 232,786, with minorities making up nearly 76 percent of that total.

"The city has become very diverse in everything," he said. "You can see different racial and ethnic groups. And these type of changes need representation in the city of Irving. Everybody has to be represented. That's why I'm running."

Ward says he believes Irving is on the right road now with him on the council, and he wants to continue what he said has been the city's strong economic development since he took office.
"There are a lot of good things fixing to come here in Irving," he said.

But Elhassan said he hasn't seen those improvements reach all areas of the city, noting that if elected, he wants to address what he believes is a lack of development in south Irving.

"In that part of the city, you can't find a gas station or a grocery store," Elhassan said. "If you drive around Irving and come to visit, you can notice that when you go to Las Colinas and when you go to north Irving, you are going to see that difference."

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/irving/2017/03/15/uncle-irvings-clock-boy-says-time-now-take-seat-city-hall
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TopicClock Boy's uncle says it's time to take a seat at Irving City Hall
K3lys
08/22/17 2:28:02 AM
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IRVING — Abdel Elhassan knows that many Irving voters will assume that he's running for a seat on the City Council as a way to somehow get back at the city for what happened two years ago to his nephew Ahmed Mohamed.

Ahmed, then 14, made international headlines when he was arrested after a homemade clock he took to MacArthur High School was mistaken by officials for a bomb. Charges against the youth, who later picked up the nickname, "Clock Boy," were never filed.

And in January, a civil suit filed by the boy and his father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, against Fox News, TV commentator Glenn Beck and Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne was dismissed by a judge.

"What happened to Ahmed was something that was not easy for the family, and for me as well," Elhassan said. "But this has nothing to do with Ahmed's case. I'm here for everybody."

In fact, Elhassan said that friends and family have suggested he run for a council spot since he arrived in Irving in 1995.

He said his job as a district administrator for 11 years when he lived in Sudan gave him the experience he needs to help Irving if he's able to defeat Place 5 incumbent Oscar Ward on May 6.

"I have a background of local government back in Sudan," he said. "I have enough time to devote to the city and to pay back the city of Irving that I'm proud of and where I've lived for 22 years. That's exactly why I'm running."

Elhassan said Mohamed and his family now live in Qatar. Unlike several other relatives who have moved from Irving since Mohamed's arrest, Elhassan said he wants to stay and serve the community where he has made friends from "every corner of the world."

"This is the only city that I've lived in the United States since I came here 22 years ago," he said. "I'm not going to give it away like that."

Ward, who has been on the council since 2014, said he first met Elhassan during the ballot name drawing last month.

"He's a citizen of Irving," Ward said of his opponent. "He has chosen to run and he has that right."
Ward said he is proud of the economic developments in Irving, including the construction of the $180 million Music Factory, that have taken place since he was elected to the council. He said he is looking forward to talking to the residents in his district during the campaign and learning more about the issues they care about.

"I have my history on what I've voted on things," Ward said. "I'm going forward on that, and I'm looking forward to another term. It's a positive campaign, and that's all I'm about."

'His house is open'
Elhassan kicked off his City Council campaign with a hot dog and burger cookout at Victoria Park in Irving last Saturday. About 30 people attended the event, despite rainy weather.
Nawal Alhadi, who has been friends with Elhassan for more than 18 years, was there. She said Elhassan and her cousin worked together in Sudan.

Alhadi said Elhassan and his wife, Elsham Mohamed, have helped her since she first arrived to the U.S., and she believes Elhassan would be a benefit to Irving residents if he gets on the City Council.
"He's helping now even though he doesn't work for the government, and if he does then he will help even more people," she said. "They are welcoming not only to me, but to everybody. His house is open for everybody who needs help."
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TopicAre you okay with fast food workers preparing your food with their bare hands?
K3lys
08/21/17 9:58:25 PM
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TopicSave That Movie Villain (Nomination Topic)
K3lys
08/21/17 8:54:55 PM
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I typed wrongly, it's Calvin Candie instead of Kelvin Candy.
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TopicI Was Born Here, My Brother Is Buried Here Thats Pretty American.
K3lys
08/21/17 8:50:48 PM
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Of all the tributes that Farris Barakat has seen for his three slain family members, one of his favorites is a wooden plaque that bears their silhouettes and the American flag.

Barakat’s brother Deah, along with Deah’s wife Yusor Abu-Salha and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, were fatally shot in February, 2015 in their Chapel Hill condominium. A neighbor is awaiting trial for three counts of first-degree murder.

Many people around the world called it a hate crime against Muslims, though police have not officially declared it one.

To Farris, the plaque represents his family’s many identities — devout Muslims and also proud Americans.

“It kind of just felt good because we don’t have to tell people we’re American. They just accept that we’re American,” Barakat says. “I was born here, my brother is buried here — that’s pretty American.”

In the two years since the murders, Farris has been working to carry out his brother’s hopes for improved relations between American Muslims and their neighbors. Deah, who was a UNC-Chapel Hill dental student, once wrote in a tweet, “I have a dream one day, to have a unified and structured community. Have a voice in our society and support the youth with their projects.”

Deah owned a 105-year-old house in Raleigh and rented it out to help pay his tuition. After his death, Farris renovated the space and renamed it “The Light House.” It’s now a place where youth-focused nonprofits have space to work and people can gather to talk, relax or remember.

There’s a room upstairs where Muslims can kneel for prayer and casual spaces with board games. There’s an office with a 3D printer. Farris welcomes people of any faith. He doesn’t think there’s a conflict between being Muslim and American, and he wants to share why with anyone who will listen.

“Get to know us, get to know our story,” Barakat says. “You’ll know who we are based on our story and that will change the way you think.”

Ultimately, he hopes, it will also change people’s actions.

While the Barakat and Abu-Salha families are still struggling with the pain and grief of the shootings, Farris says the tragedy — and the international attention it received — did help change the perception of American Muslims.

The public learned that Deah led efforts to provide dental care to poor children in North Carolina. Yusor, who also had been accepted into UNC’s dental school, worked with homeless people in Raleigh. Both volunteered at a clinic for Syrian refugees in Turkey.

“It was, I think, one of the first times that people really got to see what a Muslim American was like based on the actions of a Muslim American,” Farris says.

Seven month after the murder, a 14-year-old Texas student, Ahmed Mohamed, was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. School officials said they feared it was a bomb, but there was a public outcry about how Mohamed was treated.

Farris says that Deah, Yusor and Razan’s lives became admirable public examples of what Muslim Americans were actually like.

“It was okay for people like Microsoft and others to stand up for Ahmed, the clock guy,” Farris says.

That gives him some peace when he thinks about what happened to his family. Along with the belief that all three are in heaven.

“We can’t be 100 percent sure, but they died at the best of their lives because of their religion, because of somebody who hates them for who they are,” Barakat says. The way they lived and died “says ‘heaven,’ ‘martyr,’ all over it.”

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TopicRobber who threatened to stab teenage boy is jailed
K3lys
08/21/17 8:44:08 PM
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A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for brutally robbing a 16-year old boy in Slough.

Mohamed Ahmed
, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at Reading Crown Court earlier today to robbery and was sentenced at the same hearing.

He was charged on July 23 with the offence which took place in High Street, Slough on July 11 at around 11.30pm.

Ahmed approached a 16-year-old boy waiting at a bus stop and asked for change. When the boy said he did not have any, Ahmed started to search him and took his mobile phone. He then threatened to stab him if he did not hand over his belt and jacket too before making off.

Investigating officer Detective Constable Samuel French said: “This was obviously a terrifying incident for the 16-year-old victim and I hope that with Ahmed behind bars, the victim can now begin to put this incident behind him. Thames Valley Police takes crimes of this nature very seriously and I encourage members of the public to be vigilant and report incidents like this to us, as we will deal with them robustly.”

http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/15486644.Jail_for_robber_who_threatened_to_stab_teenager_at_bus_stop/
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TopicAhmed Mohamed among 3 men accused of terror plot facing charge over mosque blaze
K3lys
08/21/17 8:34:17 PM
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Men accused of Christmas Day terror plot facing charge over mosque blaze.

ISLAMIC extremists allegedly behind a Christmas Day terror plot to blow up the heart of Melbourne allegedly set fire to a suburban mosque to intimidate innocents who did not share their dangerous views, police believe.

Investigators will allege the men — Ahmed Mohamed, 24, and Abdullah Chaarani, 26, along with an accomplice — were responsible for Islamic-State-inspired arson attacks at a mosque in Fawkner, in Melbourne’s north.

Heavily armed police swooped in to arrest their alleged associate, Meadow Heights man Hatim Moukhaiber, 29, late on Saturday night.

Police allege the three men set fire to the Imam Ali Islamic Centre on December 11 last year.

Graffiti reading “Islamic State” had also been painted on the wall of the centre, which is a place of worship for the Shia community.

Mr Mohamed and Mr Chaarani — who remain in custody awaiting trial over the Christmas Day allegations — will also be charged over a November fire at the centre.

Counter-terrorism police believe the men shared an extremist Sunni ideology.

Mr Moukhaiber — who was already known to police — had been under watch for months before the Special Operations Group surrounded his car as he drove with a group of others, including a child, in Roxburgh Park.


St Pauls Cathedral was one of the targets in the alleged Christmas Day plot.
Police were not looking for anyone else over the attacks and assured Melbourne’s Shia community there was no further threat.

Flinders St station, Federation Square and St Paul’s Cathedral were allegedly major targets of a plot to cause mass casualties in the CBD last Christmas.

It’s alleged common household goods were stockpiled at the Meadow Heights home of the group’s suspected ringleader to fuel the deadly blast.

Mr Moukhaiber’s family home was in Manna Ct, Meadow Heights — the same street in which Mr Mohamed had lived in a bungalow which was raided last December.

Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Ian McCartney said police would allege IS had a “strong influence” on the men.

Investigators had not uncovered evidence IS had directed the group to attack.

“They (the fires) were inspired and designed to influence and put fear into a particular group,” Mr McCartney said.

Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Ross Guenther said the methodology of IS was to cause division within the community. “The impact of something like this on the Shia community here is significant … it interferes with the whole process of social cohesion, which we so heavily promote,” Mr Guenther said.

The men, who could face life in prison if found guilty, are expected to face court tomorrow.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/two-christmas-day-terror-plotters-facing-charge-over-mosque-blaze/news-story/430067d475816d9072ead2e444c99846
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