[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The family of a Moslem boy who was nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... after bringing a homemade clock to school filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Texas school officials and others, saying the incident violated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ahmed Mohammed, who was arrested at his suburban Dallas high school in September and charged with having a hoax bomb. He says he brought the homemade digital clock to school to show his English teacher.
Ahmed showed off the clock, made out of a plastic pencil box and electrical wire and other hardware salvaged from his parents’ garage, on Monday during a news conference with his parents and attorneys.
Irving police later dropped the charge, but he was still suspended for three days. He never returned to the school; his family opted to have him take classes elsewhere.
The lawsuit names Irving Independent School District, the city of Irving and the school’s principal, and asks a jury to determine the damages. In November, the family asked the district and city to pay $15 million or else face a suit. District spokeswoman Lesley Weaver said in a statement Monday that attorneys for the district will review the suit and determine a course of action.
"Irving ISD continues to deny violating the student’s rights and will respond to claims in accordance with court rules," she said, adding that school officials for now will have no further comment.
The Mohammed family questioned whether the boy was mistreated due to his religion but the district has denied the claim.
The family has since moved to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , citing threats and a scholarship offered to Ahmed in the Persian Gulf country. Ahmed moved back to the U.S. last month for the summer to visit family and friends, and will do some traveling around the country, but will return to Qatar next month to start 10th grade at Qatar Academy, a private school in Doha.
"For the safety of my family, I have to go back to Qatar, because right now it’s not very safe for my family or for anyone who’s a minority," Ahmed said during Monday’s news conference.
While in Texas, Ahmed said, he has to wear a hat, sunglasses and a hoody. "I can’t walk out of the house without being covered up because I might get shot because that happens here," he said.
The teen’s parents, Mohammed Elhassan Mohammed and Muna Ibrahim, have not found work yet in Qatar, so the family of eight is living in government housing and on food vouchers.
Among the claims made in the suit, which was brought by the teen’s father, is that the boy’s right to equal protection under the law was violated and that officers arrested him without probable cause.
Ahmed was a victim of systemic discrimination by the school district and state Board of Education that has marginalized Moslems and other minority groups, the suit claims.
"History tells us that when we have stood tall and proud for equality and freedom, we have grown as a nation," the suit says. "When we have given in to fear and hate, we flounder."
The suit adds, "In the case of Ahmed Mohammed, we have the opportunity to take a stand for equality and for justice, two things that should prevail above all else."
The Irving school district is also under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over an alleged pattern of discrimination against minority students.
The district in February sued the Texas Attorney General to keep the justice department’s investigation private.
Ahmed’s story brought an outpouring of support from President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... , other politicians, corporate executives and NASA scientists.
"When I went to the new school, they asked me, ’are you that clock kid?’ I told them yeah, I was. My identity was stripped," Ahmed said.
A.k.a Clock Boy.
Posted by: Fred ||
08/09/2016 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[9 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Is this the kid that was bad at making clocks or was it that he was bad at making bombs?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/09/2016 11:33 Comments ||
Top||
#5
The kid's wearing a hoodie to hide his face? It's gonna be 102 this afternoon, in Irving, Texas - just like yesterday and tomorrow.
Yeah, he'll blend right in!
Posted by: Bobby ||
08/09/2016 13:06 Comments ||
Top||
#6
We made that and C3H5N3O9 (plus a few more fiery concoctions) in our youth here, Shipman. Used them successfully at remote locations with much joy and backslapping by all. (Final mixed the second item on-site)
Just stuff you did when you weren't raised as a snowflake. Lucky we didn't kill ourselves, too.
Chemistry professor(s) NOT involved.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
08/09/2016 21:03 Comments ||
Top||
Negative interest rate sales are getting ridiculous!
Police in the eastern town of Marj have launched a hunt for one of the managers of the local branch of the Bank of North Africa who fled the scene after shooting a customer dead.
According to reports, the customer, named as Fawzi Al-Shihi, and bank staff were involved in an argument over the shortage of cash in the bank which then degenerated into a brawl.
The bank’s security staff moved to calm tempers and initially appeared to have done so. However, the bank official had a gun on the premises and used it to shoot the customer dead.
According to local police, Marj residents have been horrified by the event, the full details of which have been handed to the public prosecutor.
#2
'...as a result of this most unfortunate incident I find myself in the charge of $25 M of your US dollars. If you will kindly send me your pertinent information...'
[Daily Caller] A community college in Illinois is trying to defend itself after it decided to offer special classes only available to black people.
"College: Changes, Challenges, Choice" is a one-credit introductory course at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, and is intended to help new students "assess your purpose for college, assess your study strategies, set college and career goals, examine your values and decision-making skills, and develop an appreciation for diversity."
But while the class may want students to appreciate diversity, the school doesn’t practice what it preaches. Two sections of the class are specifically set aside exclusively for black students, who make up about 10 percent of Moraine Valley’s 34,000 students. The special classes were first reported on by The Chicago Tribune after it was notified by the parents of several students.
Moraine Valley says it’s simply trying to improve the odds of success for black students, who are typically less likely to graduate from the school.
#1
Try having a "whites only" class. You will have the wrath of the Dept. of Injustice down on you before you can blink along with the BLM protests. Another load of PC BS. Last I knew the name of this country was the United States. We held as an ideal unity and assimilation--not diversity and division. No wonder things are getting so screwed up.
#4
The comments section at the Tribune is closed. Remarkably, not a single comment. The Tribune writer waxes prolifically about how all this is okay and a necessary course given the problems of our times. It's all about fixing problems, doncha know.
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/09/2016 8:56 Comments ||
Top||
#5
Let's be honest shall we? Moraine Valley should not be blamed. They're only doing openly what the Federal Government has been doing privately for decades.
#6
Interesting. I live in the West suburbs and always assumed Palos * was majority minority. That's because it's usually in the news on some minority issue. With this article I decided to do a racial makeup Google search on all the Palos (Hills, Heights etc.). They are all %95 White. Not at all what I assumed! No idea what is going on here and why past stories in the media were mainly minority ones.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The family of a 
Let's be honest shall we? Moraine Valley should not be blamed. They're only doing openly what the Federal Government has been doing privately for decades. 
