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Texas fourteen year Muslim high school student arrested for making a clock.
Yes, a clock.
In what is hard to view as anything other than both paranoid overkill as well as actions likely to eventually result in a massively expensive damages award and/or one of the most groveling apologies ever offered by public officials, a fourteen year old boy of the Muslim faith was arrested at his high school in the upscale Dallas suburb of Irving Texas and then suspended three days for bringing a homemade electronic clock to school.
Even more gobsmaking is that per essentially all accounts, the boy is known by friends and his school as a bit of a geek who likes to make things.

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In fact, in his arrest photo he is wearing a t-shirt with the NASA logo on it.
After all, don’t many teenage boys want to become an astronaut or a firefighter?
More importantly, even by Texas standards, the arrest and suspension of this young man is troubling.
In their defense, the best officials could offer up was that “He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation.”
Apparently, local authorities failed to appreciate that asking a 14 year kid for a broader explanation of time is a question far better suited to be asked of a graduate student studying theoretical physics or perhaps philosophy.
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Throw in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in the United States came here to be free to live in peace, safety and to practice their personal faith as well as respect the identical rights of others to do similarly, this incident is beyond merely troubling.
That and violating the privacy of a 14 year old via an over the top reaction by various public employees ranging from teachers to law enforcement is of itself is beneath contempt unless someone can clearly as well as definitely find a clear and unarguable nexus beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt that this young man was truly up to serious no good.
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