The Hamas-linked terror organization the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent out an email today saying it would hold a news conference tomorrow demanding that Carson withdraw from the presidential race for daring to say these things. “Mr. Carson clearly does not understand or care about the Constitution, which states that ‘no religious test shall […]
Hoax: Muslim clockmaker didn’t build clock, just put existing one into pencil box
This makes it all the more likely that this entire incident was planned: the idea was to scare school officials with a suspicious-looking object and then cry “Islamophobia.” And it is all working beyond, I expect, even their wildest expectations. Be sure to read the detailed explanation here; all I’ve reproduced below are some of […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Clock is Ticking on “Islamophobia”
In FrontPage today I discuss the exhortation “If you see something, say something” – which holds true unless the suspicious person is a Muslim. Of all the people arrested over the past week, only Ahmed Mohamed of Irving, Texas was invited to the White House as a result. This is because Mohamed is fourteen years […]
Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison carries clock in solidarity with Ahmed Mohamed
Ellison, who has taken money from the Muslim Brotherhood to fund his pilgrimage to Mecca, has long been an energetic purveyor of the Muslim victimhood scam, complaining of counter-terror efforts and claiming that they target Muslims unfairly. So it is no surprise that he would eagerly jump on Ahmed Mohamed’s victimhood story, which will have […]
Texas Muslim clockmaker’s father says son was “tortured” by school officials
“Tortured”? Ridiculous. But no one, of course, is calling him on it. On the contrary: “The White House said Ahmed was invited to participate in an astronomy night next month. The press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the Obama administration thought the boy was failed by his teachers and called the incident a ‘teachable moment.’” And […]
CNN: Muslim teen arrested for clock because of “trickle-down Islamophobia”
This controversy is generally being framed as a choice between saying that school officials didn’t overreact or that they acted out of “Islamophobia,” as professional victim Haroon Mogul hysterically insists here. Actually, there is a third option. I believe that MacArthur High School officials ridiculously overreacted, but not because of “Islamophobia,” but because of the […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Barack Obama’s Half-Clocked Tale of Islamophobia
In PJ Media today I discuss how, as usual, Obama has assumed that Americans are bigots before the contrary facts were in about Ahmed Mohamed’s suspicious-looking device and uncooperative behavior. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, had a mind for gadgetry and a great idea: he would build his […]
Texas: Muslim student arrested for bringing clock that looked like bomb to school; Obama invites him to White House
School officials thought the clock looked like a bomb. It certainly looks more like a bomb than it does like a clock: All over the country, school officials are on constant high alert for weapons — a high alert that has more than once lapsed over into outright hysteria, with students being suspended for drawing […]
Muslim flight attendant files EEOC complaint after suspension for refusing to serve alcohol
We see it again and again: wherever Islamic law and custom and American law and custom conflict, it is American law and custom that have to give way. Charee Stanley and Hamas-linked CAIR talk a great deal here about rights, but what about the rights of the passengers? It is not illegal (yet) to drink […]
Hamas-linked CAIR demands apology from Scott Walker for “enabling ISIS” by referring to “radical Islamic terrorism”
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, is in full outrage mode at Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker, trying to intimidate him into speaking less accurately about the nature of the jihad threat. It’s their usual tactic: charging anyone who dares to note the Islamic character […]