AHMED MOHAMED AND HIS CLOCK AREN'T VICTIMS OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, JUST ZERO TOLERANCE
None of these kids got an invite from Obama because they don't have Muslim Privilege
September 16, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
25
The media and the usual politicians are frantically playing up the story of Ahmed Mohamed and his clock. Their attempts to blame "Islamophobia" are cynical because they know quite well that this is about Zero Tolerance.
Zero Tolerance is a post-Columbine phenomenon that turned schools on into a paranoid crackdown mode over anything suspected of somehow being a weapon. Common innocent behaviors result in suspensions, disciplinary action and even arrest.
Here are some of the crazier Zero Tolerance "weapons" actions that did not in any way involve Islam or Muslims.
1. The Pop Tart Gun - Josh Welch was eating a Pop Tart when inspiration struck. “All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn’t look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun kinda,” the second grader told local Fox affiliate WBFF. When Josh’s teacher saw that he had eaten his breakfast pastry into the likeness of a weapon, Josh said, “She was pretty mad… and I think I was in big trouble.”
Josh’s father, B.J., was called and school officials reportedly told him that they considered Josh’s actions a threat because he said “bang, bang” while holding the breakfast pastry. The second grader was then suspended for two days. A note was sent home with every child at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, MD., explaining the incident saying, “A student used food to make an inappropriate gesture.”
2. The Spitball Weapon - Spotsylvania, Va., high school freshman Andrew Mikel has been suspended for the school year and has been placed in a “diversion program” by police for blowing soft plastic pellets through a pen at three classmates.
“In early December, my son shot what amounts to a spitwad. They classified the spit wad as a weapon, expelled my son from school the rest of the year, filed assault charges on him with the sheriff’s department, mandated that he take ‘substance-abuse counseling’ and ‘anger-management counseling’ and must do 24 hours of community service.”
3. The Cloud Gun - This week, a second-grade teacher in Colorado filed a behavioral report on a boy after he drew a picture of a gun because she instructed him to go outside, look up at the clouds and draw what he saw.
“Draw a picture of what you see in the clouds from your imagination,” 8-year-old Kody said, describing the teacher’s assignment.
4. The Bilbo Terrorist - Aiden Steward, a 9-year-old boy from Kermit, Texas. After watching the movie “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” one weekend with his family, Aiden brought a toy ring to school and told a classmate that he would make him disappear, much like Bilbo Baggins did in the story.
School officials, however, considered Aiden’s playful statement to be a “terroristic threat” and suspended the young boy from school, under the premise that no threat would be tolerated, whether real or imagined.
There are a million of these stories. They're all stupid. In the Ahmed Mohamed case, there was at least an actual unknown device that could have passed for a bomb. That's not the case with little kids with a pop tart or a lunchbox.
But none of these kids got an invite from Obama because they don't have Muslim Privilege, the way that Ahmed Mohamed does.
Muslim Privilege is why the media insists that unlike all the other Zero Tolerance cases, Ahmed Mohamed is special and needs to be the center of a national dialogue about Islamophobia. But the truth is that the insane state of Zero Tolerance is a leftist hysteria created by Educrats to push gun control. That hysteria has since gotten out of control.
If the left wants to have a dialogue about not punishing kids for chewing pop tarts into guns, let's talk about it. But favoring Ahmed Mohamed because of his Muslim Privilege is dishonest at every level. Zero Tolerance was created by the Educracy and they have to get rid of it for all students, not just Muslim ones. This is a country where all students deserve to be treated equally.
None of these kids got an invite from Obama because they don't have Muslim Privilege
September 16, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
25
The media and the usual politicians are frantically playing up the story of Ahmed Mohamed and his clock. Their attempts to blame "Islamophobia" are cynical because they know quite well that this is about Zero Tolerance.
Zero Tolerance is a post-Columbine phenomenon that turned schools on into a paranoid crackdown mode over anything suspected of somehow being a weapon. Common innocent behaviors result in suspensions, disciplinary action and even arrest.
Here are some of the crazier Zero Tolerance "weapons" actions that did not in any way involve Islam or Muslims.
1. The Pop Tart Gun - Josh Welch was eating a Pop Tart when inspiration struck. “All I was trying to do was turn it into a mountain but, it didn’t look like a mountain really and it turned out to be a gun kinda,” the second grader told local Fox affiliate WBFF. When Josh’s teacher saw that he had eaten his breakfast pastry into the likeness of a weapon, Josh said, “She was pretty mad… and I think I was in big trouble.”
Josh’s father, B.J., was called and school officials reportedly told him that they considered Josh’s actions a threat because he said “bang, bang” while holding the breakfast pastry. The second grader was then suspended for two days. A note was sent home with every child at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, MD., explaining the incident saying, “A student used food to make an inappropriate gesture.”
2. The Spitball Weapon - Spotsylvania, Va., high school freshman Andrew Mikel has been suspended for the school year and has been placed in a “diversion program” by police for blowing soft plastic pellets through a pen at three classmates.
“In early December, my son shot what amounts to a spitwad. They classified the spit wad as a weapon, expelled my son from school the rest of the year, filed assault charges on him with the sheriff’s department, mandated that he take ‘substance-abuse counseling’ and ‘anger-management counseling’ and must do 24 hours of community service.”
3. The Cloud Gun - This week, a second-grade teacher in Colorado filed a behavioral report on a boy after he drew a picture of a gun because she instructed him to go outside, look up at the clouds and draw what he saw.
“Draw a picture of what you see in the clouds from your imagination,” 8-year-old Kody said, describing the teacher’s assignment.
4. The Bilbo Terrorist - Aiden Steward, a 9-year-old boy from Kermit, Texas. After watching the movie “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” one weekend with his family, Aiden brought a toy ring to school and told a classmate that he would make him disappear, much like Bilbo Baggins did in the story.
School officials, however, considered Aiden’s playful statement to be a “terroristic threat” and suspended the young boy from school, under the premise that no threat would be tolerated, whether real or imagined.
There are a million of these stories. They're all stupid. In the Ahmed Mohamed case, there was at least an actual unknown device that could have passed for a bomb. That's not the case with little kids with a pop tart or a lunchbox.
But none of these kids got an invite from Obama because they don't have Muslim Privilege, the way that Ahmed Mohamed does.
Muslim Privilege is why the media insists that unlike all the other Zero Tolerance cases, Ahmed Mohamed is special and needs to be the center of a national dialogue about Islamophobia. But the truth is that the insane state of Zero Tolerance is a leftist hysteria created by Educrats to push gun control. That hysteria has since gotten out of control.
If the left wants to have a dialogue about not punishing kids for chewing pop tarts into guns, let's talk about it. But favoring Ahmed Mohamed because of his Muslim Privilege is dishonest at every level. Zero Tolerance was created by the Educracy and they have to get rid of it for all students, not just Muslim ones. This is a country where all students deserve to be treated equally.
