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Was the Ahmed Mohamad Clock Story a Hoax?
By now, you've heard of Ahmed Mohammed [soylentnews.org], the fourteen year old who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to his Irving, Texas high school, which was mistaken for a hoax bomb and in violation of Texas Penal Code 46 [state.tx.us]. The media narrative was that a curious kid was arrested due to implied Islamophobia [cnn.com] and a highented state of paranoia after the anniversary of 9/11. But analysis of Ahmed's clock reveals that he may not have invented anything at all. An Electronics Engineer from ArtVoice [artvoice.com] claims, "Ahmed Mohamed didn’t invent his own alarm clock. He didn’t even build a clock.":
"...I turned to eBay, searching for vintage alarm clocks. It only took a minute to locate Ahmed’s clock. See this eBay listing, up at the time of this writing. Amhed’s clock was invented, and built, by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidary. Catalog number 63 756."
"Is it possible, that maybe, just maybe, this was actually a hoax bomb? A silly prank that was taken the wrong way? That the media then ran with, and everyone else got carried away? Maybe there wasn’t even any racial or religious bias on the parts of the teachers and police."
Earlier this year, the City of Irving recently upheld a law banning unlicensed "Sharia Courts [thepoliticalinsider.com]" from deciding legal matters, which infuriated Muslim immigrants [dallasnews.com] in the community. Given, the political history associated with Ahmed Mohamad's family [wikipedia.org], is it unreasonable to assume that this was all a hoax, designed to turn American public opinion against a city that had very recently offended its Islamic inhabitants?
