The left-led push to turn a man who was, as of 2004, an obscure state senator with no particular accomplishments into the president four years later was centrally and crucially about race. That American Muslims have instead mostly been treated with respect and courtesy ought to be a point of pride, but at no point will the left ever say, “Isn’t it great that we’re such a pluralistic and tolerant country?” Would the media decline to cover them?įor 14 years and two weeks now, the left has been desperate to find some evidence, any evidence, that Muslims in general are facing deep-seated discrimination because a few Muslims attacked us on 9/11. Now imagine Bristol Palin making loony statements. Malik Obama gets the courtesy of being ignored because he has also said some crazy things.
#HEY AHMED NICE CLOCK FREE#
This year the brother of a sitting president made derogatory comments about the leader of the free world and the reaction from the media was crickets. Let’s just savor for a moment that the musings of the daughter of an unemployed former governor constitute national news. That Bristol Palin said on Facebook that President Obama didn’t need to get involved in the situation proved irresistible for the media, which loves to depict America as a bitter standoff between red-state hicks on the one hand and sophisticated members of the cool bicoastal techno-media club on the other. Ahmed is too useful to their narrative to be a one-day story. The main difference between the Ahmed Mohamed case and the others is that the mainstream media and the leftist point of view it presents just can’t let go of Ahmed. “It never would have happened to a white kid”? It happens to white kids all. That’s ridiculous.īut it’s equally absurd to suggest that you have to be Muslim, or brown-skinned, or live in Texas, to be subjected to overenthusiastic use of school discipline and police force. Turner is still waiting for her call from President Obama.Īre white kids being punished en masse for dopey quasi-infractions because of their race? Of course not. School leadership offered no explanation for the photos posted by students that showed “bless you” on a list of expressions banned in the classroom. In Dyer County, Tenn., Kendra Turner says she was suspended for saying “Bless you” after a student sneezed, and that her teacher told her that she would have no “godly speaking in class.” The homemade clock that Ahmed Mohamed brought to school APĪ school administrator said, “This was not a religious issue at all, but more of an issue the teacher felt was a distraction in her class.” Uh-huh. Obviously the White House and Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t be bothered to comment, but you’d think that, at the very least, Stephen King would have sent out a tweet expressing outrage that imagination was being punished. For this, his locker was searched and he was arrested, handcuffed, charged with “disorderly conduct” and suspended from school for three days. Alex Stone, a 16-year-old white kid from Summerville, SC, wrote a short story in which he imagined using a gun to kill a dinosaur. But I also stand with Alex Stone,” noted Reason writer Robby Soave. Where’s his White House invitation? Where’s his chance to start networking at Facebook? His parents were forced to hire a lawyer and spent a year and a half just trying to get the suspension erased from the kid’s record. Josh Welch, a white Maryland kid with ADHD who was 7 years old when he was kicked out of school for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a pistol and pretending to shoot other students with it, must be puzzled. Yet the device did look like something Ethan Hunt would lob out of a helicopter at the last minute in “Mission: Impossible.” As National Review’s Charles Cooke pointed out on Twitter, the scary-looking tangle of wires “looks a lot more like a bomb than a pop tart looks like a gun.”
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