Last week, Muslim 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed made national news after being detained by police for bringing a deconstructed clock to his Texas school. The clock, to inexpert eyes, looked like a bomb. Ahmed’s English teacher thought so and called the police; when they questioned Mohamed, he reportedly stonewalled them. They released him after realizing that the device posed no threat and was not meant as a hoax explosive.

But this being Barack Obama’s America, that didn’t end the story.

The boy’s father, a self-proclaimed anti-Islamophobia activist, decided to make a federal case out of his kid’s detainment. He called his son’s brief detention in an air conditioned room “torture.” He called in the terrorism-linked Council on American Islamic Relations to protest Ahmed’s treatment. When he reached the police station, he insisted that the police leave handcuffs on his son so that the boy’s sister could take pictures. Then, when Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban called up Ahmed to deliver his sympathies and began asking questions about the situation, Ahmed’s sister fed him the answers.

None of those details made the press, however. The media simply played the story as a pure case of Islamophobia, a targeted attack on an innocent young Muslim genius who “invented” a clock. Never mind that Ahmed no more “invented” the clock than my daughter “invented” my keyboard by dismantling it. Never mind that children across America have been suspended or even prosecuted for far less than bringing a device with bomb-like appearance to school. Form your fingers into a gun, and go home with the threat of prosecution looming. Chew a pop tart into the shape of a firearm, and you can guarantee it’ll go on your permanent record.

But build a device that looks awfully like an IED, and so long as you’re Muslim, the world will respond with outrage.

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Source: Ben Shapiro, www.townhall.com