{"id":16054,"date":"2015-09-17T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2015-09-17T07:46:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:46:27","slug":"91715-but-if-your-name-is-mohamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/91715-but-if-your-name-is-mohamed\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/17\/15 – BUT If Your Name Is Mohamed …"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, most of us are familiar with the plight of Ahmed Mohamed<\/strong><\/a> and his "BOMB"<\/strong><\/em><\/span> that was masquerading as a Clock <\/strong><\/em>that got him arrested, handcuffed, fingerprinted and suspended.<\/p>\n

\"Clock_Muslim-Student_BOMB_Handcuffs\"<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE <\/strong>to the Irving school authorities and police who were repeatedly told by Ahmed that it was just a CLOCK – but dedmanded getting a "broader explanation"<\/strong><\/em><\/a> from the Muslim teen:<\/p>\n

If you're told the item is a clock …<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If it ticks like a clock …<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If it tells time like a clock …<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then it's probably a clock!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BUT if your name is Mohamed <\/em>…<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

AND you're brown-skinned<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then, of course, it's a BOMB!<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And two extremely important questions for the Irving school authorities and police:<\/p>\n

If you thought it was a bomb, why didn't you evacuate the high school?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What "broader explanation" than "It's a clock" <\/em>do you think was available?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, most of us are familiar with the plight of Ahmed Mohamed and his "BOMB" that was masquerading as a Clock that got him arrested, handcuffed, fingerprinted and suspended. NOTE to the Irving school authorities and police who were repeatedly told by Ahmed that it was just a CLOCK – but dedmanded getting a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}