Look, if I brought something that looked like that to school, I’d be expecting to get my ass hauled off in handcuffs. It’s not because he’s a muslim, I read your tags, but because it looks like a fucking bomb. A terrorist can be anybody and anybody can have a bomb. Yes, I’d “attack” someone with a bomb if it meant others would live if it were to go off, or to stop it before it starts. I’d rather be too careful than have a fucking bomb go off in my school.

To a teacher who has most likely never seen a real bomb before, this looks like a bomb. It wouldn’t be the first time that a student has brought a homemade bomb to their school. It was not an over reaction, but sadly a reaction that had to happen because of past incidents. If I was the parent of another student in that class, I’d rather the teacher overreact to seeing something like this, than under react and risk the life of my child. 

Oh wow, I never saw what the clock looked like. Yeah, if I were ignorant enough I would think that could be a bomb, no matter your race, I would be uncomfortable with that around me and can now understand why the teacher reacted the way she did.

It is very easy to jump onto the presumed “The boy was a Muslim, this is Islamophobia,” but in all fairness, there was an alarm that went off from the clock in one of his classes and he took out something that is easily mistaken for a bomb. Teachers have to be very, very careful to make sure all students are safe. If they were not overly cautious and someone died, then there would be ten times the outrage.

Apologies, but the whole idea of, “He was targeted just because he was a Muslim” and the quick pandering to his family by celebrities and the like is an embarrassment. The whole thing was a massive shame, it was awful that he went through that, but the school and teachers were clearly justified in their actions. To the uninitiated, that clock looks like it could be a bomb.

[Source for the clock image] [Second source]

- Jolteon

While I’m not entirely convinced that it wasn’t a case of Islamophobia, I support Jolteon in pursuing that train of thought. My only thing is though I can KINDA see that looking like a bomb, “bomb” is not the first thing that would come to my mind. It makes it a little less damnable but it’s still indicative that we think of a significant amount of Muslims as terrorists. I’ve played around with the “what if it is a bomb” thing, and it doesn’t seem to work due to the fact that I find it hard to see a bomb without associating it with Islamophobia. I see a bunch of spare parts. Then again, I’m also not THAT tech savvy…

Admittedly, part of my bias in favor of Islamophobia’s existence is that the older pastor over my Church talks about Islam like it’s a satanist cult. :/ I respect him, but not this stance of his…

- Kuzco

I can understand the cops being called, but what I can’t understand is him being arrested for a faux (fake) bomb. Because the cops would have had a bomb squad and they would have determined that the clock was actually a fucking clock and not a fucking bomb, at that point it should have been fucking understood that it wasn’t a bomb. And the kid called it a fucking clock the whole time, never a bomb. So why the fuck was he taken in? Maybe give him a scolding and tell him to not make his inventions look like bombs, but there was no fucking reason to arrest him.
Cops come in, make sure it isn’t a bomb, then everyone goes home. THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED

OKay but everyone is forgetting: He took it to his engineering teacher. Not to Ms Suzie Q. who teaches English. He took it to his engineering teacher and told her it was clock that he had made at home.

For the record, here are examples what the inside of a digital clock looks like:

These don’t look remarkably different to me from what Ahmed made. So what’s the excuse now?