The Islamophobia Thread

Supposedly digital clocks can be used as time fuses for homemade bombs. Utterly ridiculous in this context though.

I will eat my hat and mask if that teacher was aware of that, Ach.

The school publicly released a statement and said the staff acted out of the safety of the students.

The police also released a statement that said the reason the kid was arrested 'cause he didn't give a detailed explanation, which made them do it.

Right. It's the ninth grade boys fault they arrested him for not having a bomb. They dont even know how to come up with plausible excuses.

O RLY? And I suppose it had nothing to do with the police officer in charge of the interrogation making a comment that made it clear he was employing racial profiling? Or the one where he insisted that the kid was making a bomb because it "looks like a movie bomb to [him]"?

I mean, really, using movies as a reference for how to identify bombs in real life??? Who the hell gave this guy a passing grade in the police academy?!

edited 17th Sep '15 7:28:26 PM by MarqFJA

Srsly, it sounds like Andy Griffith down there.

Seriously, if the kid had wanted to make a bomb, he wouldn't have wasted time building the clock: he'd just have bought a cheap alarm clock off the shelf...

Yes, but that's common sense, basic budgeting and logic. We can't have those kind of things going on!

Which would also mean the supposed terrorist had more common sense than the people supposed to prevent terrorist acts.

edited 18th Sep '15 12:49:52 AM by DrunkenNordmann

Something I'd like to bring up, that I found buried halfway through another article about poor Ahmed, that gives me real serious chills.

Also for a slightly lighter take on the whole thing, was this response I saw on Facebook, which I really really hope some parents^note white ones, because obviously the school district will ignore protests from anyone else bring up to the school district.

Well, there is one point of brightness in all this: MIT has taken an interest. I wouldn't be surprised if that extends to field trips and side projects with an eye to enrollment down the line.

They do like gutsy, do-first-get-yelled-at-later engineers with an ability to rile the unenlightened over there, after all. And, well... he's proven himself, there. Keep the grades up, and he's pretty much what they like to snap up.

edited 18th Sep '15 1:13:57 AM by Euodiachloris

NASA too, assuming they haven't been completely defunded by the time Ahmed graduates from MIT.

An idea just occurred to me on how to fuck with burqa bans: painting the lower part of your face black.

And if you want to get imaginative about it, get artistic with it. Juggalo it up. Use colourful patterns. Generally mess with people's facial recognition processes.

What are you talking about?

This IS my face

Ahmed and his family are moving to Qatar.

I feel terrible, but my first thought was, "oh no, he really is a terrorist!" Not so much because of Qatar specifically but because I was thinking of Adil from that episode of The Simpsons.

Edit- corrected link hopefully

edited 20th Oct '15 5:13:01 PM by Hodor2

Link doesn't work.

Well, this is suspicious, but more due to the way the country runs its institutions and non-tourism areas.

On another note, no serious news articles should feature a question mark at the end of the title. It rustled my communication jimmies.

edited 20th Oct '15 5:18:07 PM by Quag15

It definitely makes me suspicious that he's going to share American bomb clock making technology with Qatar.

There are so many dumb things about this statement...

I was mostly joking.

Basically, tropewise his leaving the country and Qatar having this apparently new organization supporting him seems suspicious- like I can imagine a movie where he thanks President Obama but then gives a Psychotic Smirk to the audience.

But of course, this isn't a movie and the kid just built a clock.

And I feel sad that he and his parents don't feel safe in the United States. I mean I think they are kind of wrong as the majority of people don't think like that Texas town, but I don't blame them for feeling that way.

It doesn't take a majority to make them unsafe.

A French public prosecutor is suggesting that charges against Marine Le Pen of "incitement to discrimination over people's religious beliefs" due to comparing Muslims praying in public to the Nazi occupation in France.

What is it with fascists and them comparing their opponents to fascists these days? I mean, really?

Groooooooan...

France is clearly in need of more/bigger mosques, if muslims often find themselves praying in the streets.