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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?

I don't mean any harm, but you guys need to do more research on a story before making all these presumptions or suggesting such drastic measures. The issue, to me, isn't that he built a clock that looked like a stereotypical IED. (Which he most likely knew it did, and brought it to school anyways. But let's be honest, a lot of harmless electronic projects can easily look like IED's to an untrained eye), but that he didn't actually build the clock from scratch, let alone "invent" it like he claims. What he brought to school was, or at least appears to be, something built in a factory. This video demonstrates and explains this in detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=232&v=CEmSwJTqpgY
Even if it was something he invented, which I don't believe it is, he doesn't deserve thousands of dollars worth of gifts and a free trip to the white house. There are plenty of other kids that have done so much more than him, and I wouldn't even say they deserve free stuff. It's a nice just but it's also not a fair gesture. I don't think anyone deserves special treatment like that unless they did something really impressive, like those kids who innovate in medical, technological, and other scientific fields in a way that can potentially help society as a whole. Kids like that deserve a lot of recognition but almost always get little-to-none, while this kid who just, at best, built a simple electronic clock has gotten massive amounts of media and political attention.
There's also the possible issue with his uncle, Aldean Mohamed [his Twitter] being CEO of a company named "twin towers transportation" [http://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2fj...on-corporation] which is obviously provocative, but that's no fault of Ahmed Mohamed. He isn't responsible for his family's actions. Even if he had (not saying he does have, just saying if he did) a terrible family, we shouldn't judge him for that. Just like we shouldn't consider him a hero just because of what happened to him, even though I do believe he was wronged at first. But our school system wrongs A LOT of people, and the teachers are probably required to call the police of they see something that looks similar to a bomb on a student, regardless of race or creed. Rewarding him may be with good intentions and is sentimental, but it's ultimately unfair and unreasonable.
There may have been racial profiling involved, but there's no proof of it. It's fallacious to just assume racial profiling is what happened in this situation, even if you personally think it's probable (Which I agree that is is a high possibility, there is a lot of Antisemitism in our country. But it's still wrong to assume that this is the case). Situations like this have happened many times before, so it's not like it's exclusive to Mr. Mohamed, or Muslims at all. (though it's stupid that they didn't evacuate the school, that should be standard protocol with a bomb threat. But that's how our school system typically is, dumb and constantly takes extreme measures against kids who usually didn't actually do anything wrong)

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