CLOCK BOY Teaches Valuable Lesson...

MARK STEYN: “CLOCK BOY HAS TAUGHT US ALL A VALUABLE LESSON WITH HIS DROLL AND SPECTACULARLY SUCCESSFUL PROVOCATION:”

The US Department of Homeland Security’s slogan is “If You See Something, Say Something” — unless it’s something that might get you accused of Islamophobia, in which case keep it to yourself.
Which is where we came in, on the morning of Tuesday September 11th 2001 at the US Airways First Class check-in desk:

I got an instant chill when I looked at [Mohammed Atta]. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a politically correct slap…I thought, ‘My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.’

Clockmed has raised the bar on that one. My God, this is just a young Muslim male. So what if he’s ticking? Do I really want to be tied up in sensitivity-training hell for the next six months?

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Clock Boy Gets to Meet the President After All

Texas "Clock Boy" got to meet the president when he visited the White House on Monday for its second astronomy night, despite cold water being thrown on the possibility earlier in the day.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest had told reporters that he didn’t think Obama would have time to meet with the teen at the event.

Last Wednesday, Ahmed met with Sudanese president and war criminal Omar al-Bashir, causing some to speculate that the president might want to distance himself from a boy who is friendly with a genocidal maniac.

As luck would have it, young Ahmed was in the third row of the audience when the president showed up to peer though a telescope and make his brief remarks.

“We have to encourage those glimmers of curiosity,” Obama said during his speech, not mentioning Ahmed by name.

According to the New York Times, Ahmed made his way to the front of the crowd after the president’s speech, and Obama spoke briefly with the teen and gave him a hug.

The Wochit News report and most other news reports I’ve been seeing on the net about Ahmed Mohamed’s travels have stuck with the original false narrative — that Mohamed was detained because teachers mistook his cool “invention” or “homemade clock”  for a bomb. That is incorrect. Authorities knew that Ahmed had brought a hastily made “clock” to school. The question was, why? They thought the suspicious-looking contraption looked like a “hoax bomb.”