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Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:06 PM Sep 2015

Ring of Fire: Ahmed Mohamed’s Only Crime Is Being Too Smart For The State Of Texas

Last week in Texas, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed built a clock and brought it to school to show his teacher, where he was promptly arrested because everyone thought it was a bomb. And the only reason that everyone thought it was a bomb is because Mohamed is a Muslim.

There’s no question that the student was racially profiled, and that’s the first and most important problem. But the second problem is that the student is still being attacked by both the left and the right.

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Ring of Fire: Ahmed Mohamed’s Only Crime Is Being Too Smart For The State Of Texas (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2015 OP
By that standard we're all guilty. [nt] Jester Messiah Sep 2015 #1
Not at all. "Smarter" means he isn't afraid of it, unlike the ignorant villagers around him.n/t jtuck004 Sep 2015 #3
Well, that's not his ONLY crime. Iggo Sep 2015 #2
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