Do I think that this was all set-up? It could be. Obviously, the kid never invented anything, and simply gutted a clock. Does that mean his intentions were for it to appear as bomb, and cause a panic? It's hard to tell.
That said, it really doesn't matter. I don't care about 'Islamophobia' to be all that honest. What I care about is 'Electronophobia'. This fear of all electronics that one is unable to identify is out of control. A circuit board with a ribbon cable is not a bomb, nor is anything with some wires sticking out. It should not have taken all day to identify what this device was, and then continue to hold the boy in custody simply because the school looked foolish.
1) He knew it looked suspicious, like a bomb. That is why, he claims, he put a cable round the case (don't ask me why he thought that would matter).
2) His father (a kook in his own right) pressed him to take it to school.
2) He was told by his engineering teacher not to show it to others because it looked threatening.
3) He took it to English class, and the alarm he set went off. Frightening the class and teacher. And as Ahmed and his science teacher already knew it would, the device looked threatening and the authorities were called.
4) He was handcuffed, detained, and initially charged with creating a bomb hoax.
For his gutting a clock, creating a hoax, while believing the false story of "Islamophobia" Microsoft rushed to send him a computer, Twitter offered him a job, Zuckerberg lavishes praise and invites him to visit, Hillary praised him, someone setup a scholarship fund, and Obama jumped in to heap praise and offered the 'genius' kid Muslim a visit to the whitehouse.
Is the culture left just shameless or too stupid?
