Muslim student arrested in US after home-built clock mistaken for bomb

[Rajaraja Chola]

The Police had the same probable cause and would have arrested anyone doing the same thing.

Whats the need to call the police. A science teacher should have been able to tell its a damn clock. Are those teachers so incapable to differentiate btw a clock n a bomb before calling the police. ?

 

[VCheng]

Whats the need to call the police. A science teacher should have been able to tell its a damn clock. Are those teachers so incapable to differentiate btw a clock n a bomb before calling the police. ?

The teacher and the administration followed school policy that unless a marshal is present on the school grounds, the police must be called in case of any suspicious event. Any. Must. Please read the school's statement in this matter.

Of course, had something happened, the idiot parents would be first one to claim that they had no idea what their child was doing and it must be the bad internet that influenced him. No idea, yeah, right.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

The teacher and the administration followed school policy that unless a marshal is present on the school grounds, the police must be called in case of any suspicious event. Any. Must. Please read the school's statement in this matter.

Of course, had something happened, the idiot parents would be first one to claim that they had no idea what their child was doing and it must be the bad internet that influenced him. No idea, yeah, right.

Lets say teachers are incapable. Simple as that.

 

[VCheng]

Lets say teachers are incapable. Simple as that.

No, the teachers have to follow policies set by the school board. They have no choice in this matter. Simple as that.

 

[Maira La]

I like this particular comment in Aljazeera:

..the same country which gave this kid education, embraced him and granted him with total freedom of religion and security (as opposed to where he came from) also made a small, unpleasant mistake and srrested him for a short while. that doesn't make the US a racist country, this is just a ridiculous claim, especially coming from people who live in countries which oppress minorities as a policy.
ironically, the article about 2 girls who were sentenced to ra-pe (this is not a mistake) in India got half as many comments as this article, about a boy who was mistakenly arrested in the US. what does it say about the intentions of the peace-loving, human-right activists who comment in here?

Good point. Let's not be so critical of developed countries with otherwise good human rights records. World needs to pay more attention to human rights violations in certain third world countries!

 

[BHAN85]

USA is a country with a great meritocracy, maybe the most meritocracy country over the face of earth.

That means that people in USA with low incomes like a policeman or a school teacher has poor intellectual skills. They can't distinguish between a clock and a bomb, they think that bombs in tv movies are real.

And that means that people with high incomes like Mr President, his advisers, Zuckerberg or FEMA administrator who support this kid, are smart.

 

[VCheng]

I like this particular comment in Aljazeera:



Good point. Let's not be so critical of developed countries with otherwise good human rights records. World needs to pay more attention to human rights violations in certain third world countries!

But it is the best way to divert attention from where it belongs.

USA is a country with a great meritocracy, maybe the most meritocracy country over the face of earth.

That means that people in USA with low incomes like a policeman or a school teacher has poor intellectual skills. They can't distinguish between a clock and a bomb, they think that bombs in tv movies are real.

And that means that people with high incomes like Mr President, his advisers, Zuckerberg or FEMA administrator who support this kid, are smart.

Smart or dumb, every decent citizen follows the law here. The rule of law and all that jazz, you see.

 

[anon45]

But it is the best way to divert attention from where it belongs.



Smart or dumb, every decent citizen follows the law here. The rule of law and all that jazz, you see.

True, people don't expect to bribe officials or police.

 

[sherin616]

 

[dray]

Muslim check
Knows how to build check
Might be successful check


Lets ruin his life give him a record

so no one will want to employ him

then showcase the Muslims dont work hard enough while other people get jobs!

then have meetings after meetings as to why people hate us

Let's be more realistic about it than being emotional, security agencies around the world follow a method called 'profiling', and Muslims are in the wrong end of it because of the continuous activities of some Muslims (not a small number though) around the world in the name of Islam. Crying victim or fighting the authorities won't help here, what rest of the Muslims should do is to fight this evil that is breeding within some sections of their own community.

As for the kid, the school was right to inform the authorities, what if the kid was brainwashed by the ISIS on social media? Everyone would have held the scholl authorities responsible if something actually went wrong. However, the treatment should have been more sensible, the school should have confiscated the homemade clock and hand it over to police for examination without making any scene out of it, and requested the police to visit his home in plain clothes after school hours, as checking the kids belongings was also important. It's better to be safe than sorry, but there was no need to shame him publicly.

 

[Dubious]

Let's be more realistic about it than being emotional, security agencies around the world follow a method called 'profiling', and Muslims are in the wrong end of it because of the continuous activities of some Muslims (not a small number though) around the world in the name of Islam. Crying victim or fighting the authorities won't help here, what rest of the Muslims should do is to fight this evil that is breeding within some sections of their own community.

As for the kid, the school was right to inform the authorities, what if the kid was brainwashed by the ISIS on social media? Everyone would have held the scholl authorities responsible if something actually went wrong. However, the treatment should have been more sensible, the school should have confiscated the homemade clock and hand it over to police for examination without making any scene out of it, and requested the police to visit his home in plain clothes after school hours, as checking the kids belongings was also important. It's better to be safe than sorry, but there was no need to shame him publicly.

Had he been white would the treatment be the same?
Is that called racial profiling if the treatment would be different?
And was the expert (post 145 page 10) BS not knowing what he is talking about when he claimed this to be more obvious in coloured people? If it is biased how can it be right?

Profiling is an individual thing but in todays world it is being collective and termed phobia!

Read my posts again:

Racial profiling is a form of racism coz you are profiling a person based on a group of people not on the individual
Child was handcuffed even when he posed no thread (his clock was already confiscated)
Child was interrogated without a parent or lawyer (that itself is not right)
Child was kept at police station for 2 days (now where is the 24 hr rule esp when he is a child and the clock was already in the hands of police?!)


Call a spade a spade!

 

[Jaam92]

I agree with you but calm down brother since he boy has already be rewarded by invitation to white house which the looser science teacher will not get in his life time.

But this will not change mentality of US Citizens
Police knows difference b/w Watch and Bomb how could police interrogate him

 

[VCheng]

Let's be more realistic about it than being emotional, security agencies around the world follow a method called 'profiling', and Muslims are in the wrong end of it because of the continuous activities of some Muslims (not a small number though) around the world in the name of Islam. Crying victim or fighting the authorities won't help here, what rest of the Muslims should do is to fight this evil that is breeding within some sections of their own community.

As for the kid, the school was right to inform the authorities, what if the kid was brainwashed by the ISIS on social media? Everyone would have held the scholl authorities responsible if something actually went wrong. However, the treatment should have been more sensible, the school should have confiscated the homemade clock and hand it over to police for examination without making any scene out of it, and requested the police to visit his home in plain clothes after school hours, as checking the kids belongings was also important. It's better to be safe than sorry, but there was no need to shame him publicly.

The school and the police followed the procedures correctly in this case.

 

[Pak_Track]

My opinion would be exactly the same if Ahmed was an adult, that is not issue.

Muslim or not, I would be alarmed. And it really is an issue. You should see some of the kids the TTP uses as suicide bombers.

 

[opruh]

Discrimination is a common thing in the usa.