<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A High School Student, Arrested for Bringing a Homemade Clock to&nbsp;School]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">This all happened, because of this teenage boy’s descent too, from NBCNEWS-Dallas-Fort Worth…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>A 14-year-old Irving High School student is accused of making a hoax bomb, but he says it was a clock he brought to school to show an engineering teacher. Ahmed Mohamed says there was never a threat, and he and his father believe it&#8217;s a case of discrimination because of their religion. (Published Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015)</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;She said, ‘Well it looks like a bomb. Don’t show it to anyone else,’&#8221; he said. &#8220;And she decides to take it from me.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Mohamed said police handcuffed him and took him to Irving police headquarters for interrogation, fingerprints and mug shots. He said his family surname repeatedly came up in police questioning.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;I tried making a phone call to my father. They said, ‘You’re in the middle of an interrogation. You can’t have a phone call,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;I really don’t think it’s fair, because I brought something to school that wasn’t a threat to anyone. I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something and I end up being arrested later that day.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, said he drove his son to school Monday morning and encouraged him to demonstrate his gift for technology.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;I wanted to start clean with the teacher by showing him my inventions and stuff,&#8221; he said.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Mohamed said problems arose when the clock rang in his back pack in class with a second teacher later in the day. He said he showed that teacher the device after other students had left the room.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>A 14-year-old Irving High School student is accused of making a hoax bomb, but he says it was a clock he brought to school to show an engineering teacher. Ahmed Mohamed says there was never a threat, and he and his father believe it&#8217;s a case of discrimination because of their religion. (Published Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015)</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;She said, ‘Well it looks like a bomb. Don’t show it to anyone else,’&#8221; he said. &#8220;And she decides to take it from me.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Mohamed said police handcuffed him and took him to Irving police headquarters for interrogation, fingerprints and mug shots. He said his family surname repeatedly came up in police questioning.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>&#8220;I tried making a phone call to my father. They said, ‘You’re in the middle of an interrogation. You can’t have a phone call,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;I really don’t think it’s fair, because I brought something to school that wasn’t a threat to anyone. I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something and I end up being arrested later that day.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, said he drove his son to school Monday morning and encouraged him to demonstrate his gift for technology.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">This, is what’s currently happening, in the FREEST (supposedly???) country in the world, the <em>Good Ol’ Glory, </em>the <em>U.S. </em>of <em>A, </em>and this is still, RACIAL profiling AT its worst, and, it’s happening, IRVING, CALIFORNIA, and, if it’s happened there, you can BET, that it will, happen, in YOUR neighborhood…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img id="ssBodyImg" src="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-nmc_15mohamedahmed2.ece/BINARY/w940/NMC_15MohamedAhmed2" alt="" />And, let me ask you this: does THIS look like the FACE of a TERRORIST???  the photograph is a courtesy of dallasnews.com&#8230;</p>
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