James Doogue a writer I admire, posted this onto Facebook 12 hrs ago but I’ve only just read it and I QUOTE:
Why the hell would you want to make a clock in a briefcase anyway? I would have panicked when I saw this. I don’t believe a 14 year old Muslim boy could be so naive that he couldn’t see that it might look like a bomb. I’m not saying he was making a bomb, but I don’t think it was an accident it looked the way it did. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a bit of a gag gone wrong. But the PC media are too busy being up-in-arms about possible racial profiling. I would love to see what happened to this kid if that ‘clock’ had gone through airport security. I reckon it is highly unlikely he wouldn’t have been charged with something.
The boy, Ahmed already knew it was dodgy as he admitted that when he had shown his engineering teacher, the engineering teacher had congratulated him but advised him “not to show any other teachers”.
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Surface Tension
A Muslim science teacher in a US school,
OK’s a student making a clock in a briefcase,
‘But don’t show it to the other teachers…’
A ‘gag’, lesson or unconscious irony; perhaps
deliberate indoctrination of the young – coolness.
I don’t trust it – I remember recent past mistakes
a belief that no-one could be so cruel, so calculated
as to murder indiscriminately young, old and us. Two
planes, three planes, a fourth commandeered, using
our own to kill thousands more. Some would argue
retribution for drones strikes targeting terrorists but
inadvertently innocent civilians encircled in their wake.
Death always starts with an individual; a single thought,
maybe a child trying to make a father proud, receiving
a prize from a President for making a briefcase clock.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2015
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