Ahmed Mohamed, 14, during an appearance on Good Morning America
For nearly 48 hours after most of the country learned about the injustice experienced by 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, America was a beautiful place.
President Obama reached out to him.
So did Facebook.
And Twitter.
And MIT.
And Microsoft.
And NASA.
Millions of general well-wishers saw the absurdity of interrogating, handcuffing, and arresting Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school, which administrators and police allege looked like a "hoax bomb." The charges were dropped and it appeared that we'd all witnessed the end of the worst episode of Mohamed's life.
How naive of us.
It just took Bristol and Sarah Palin a little while longer to think their hateful words through.
First Bristol piped up:
This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of. This encourages more racial strife that is already going on with the “Black Lives Matter” crowd and encourages victimhood.
Then
mom chimed in:
Yep, believing that’s a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history. Right. That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen of England.
Then, Richard Dawkins weighed in on how this was likely all
a deliberate plan orchestrated by Mohamed to get arrested on purpose, for profit.
Keep reading for more on this disappointing turn of events.
Not to be outdone, Bill Maher (who hates anything connected to Islam) predictably came out and strongly defended Mohamed's arrest.
America loves a political football—even if it comes in the form of a 14-year-old boy who doesn't deserve any of this mess coming his way.
A conservative think tank (those exist?) is now saying that what Mohamed built was half of a bomb. By half, they mean the clock portion—which basically means that all clocks, according to their logic, are halfway to being bombs.
Ultimately, let's hope that Ahmed Mohamed's family and those around him somehow find a way for him to live as normal a teenage life as possible. Let's pray he moves forward, insulated from all of the hate and rhetoric, and surrounded by loving encouragement and support. It won't be easy, but it's what he deserves.
