Im sure youve heard about the Sudanese Muslim immigrant kid in Texas who was arrested for bringing his home made electronic clock to school where Islamophobes worried that it was a time bomb beeping in his backpack. The President bestirred himself from his narcissistic reveries to note that the northeast African looked a lot like him at that age and invited him to the White House, much to the satisfaction of Salon readers.
But a reader points out that the kids dad is a publicity hound who routinely returns to Sudan to run for President and engages in other PR stunts like debating the Rev. Terry Jones over the holiness of the Koran. From the Dallas News:
He just wants to invent good things for mankind, said Ahmeds father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president. But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.
Mohamed is familiar with anti-Islamic politics. He once made national headlines for debating a Florida pastor who burned a Quran.
IMHO,the thing was a setup to get the kid arrested so they could get publicity from the arrest and that would lead to fame and money.
WTF builds an alarm clock at home and takes it to school? WTF even builds an alarm clock at home when you can buy one of the damn things cheaper than you can buy the materials to make one?
On top of that,a teacher had seen it and told him to put it away,and then nothing more happened until it was brought forward again. Seems like the kid was determined to get arrested.