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#IStandWithAhmed

9/18/2015

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It was not a bomb threat- it was discrimination. We have all heard about the Muslim boy in Texas who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. Fourteen year old Ahmed Mohamed was not recognized for his creativity and achievement, instead he was recognized for this race and his religion. Children are sent to school every day to be educated by our trusted teachers, but when those educators decide to humiliate a young boy, what is left to say?  When I was in high school, if there was a bomb threat, we would all evacuate the building as fast as possible and a bomb squad would be called immediately. That wasn't what happened at MacArthur High School. Instead they all waited around until the police arrived and arrested the young boy. And then they put the young boy and the "bomb" in a car and drove away, not fearing their own lives.  If it were a real bomb threat, they chose to jeopardize the lives of the rest of the 2000 students and their own. There really was no bomb threat, it was discrimination. Discrimination against an innocent young boy who went to school proud of the clock that he made and wanted to impress his teacher. 
I'm a proud American, but instances like this make me ashamed. Instead of focusing on the real fear- the many many many mass shootings that have taken place in our country--all by people who have NO link to Islam or Muslims. But have somehow been pushed under the rug and brushed off as sole cases and labeled "insanity." Racism and Discrimination creates more problems and fear. Our schools and educators that should be combatting this type of hatred, not perpetuating them.     
There are a lot of problems and fears in the world. A little boy with a homemade clock isn't one of them. 
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