The Fight Against Terrorism Reaches New Level Of Stupidity

On Monday, teachers at the Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas, had police arrest 14-year-old student named Ahmed Mohamed for building a simple electronic clock as an engineering project. Police escorted Mohamed of out of school in handcuffs – photos of the arrest show him wearing a NASA T-shirt – and Accused him of trying to build a bomb.

This arrest, Clearly, Should Never Have Happened. But one would like to expect AT LEAST That the Irving school, after just a cursory glance at the clock and maybe a Conversation with Mohamed's engineering teacher, Who Had Praised the project, would Realize ITS mistake. That the school would apologize to Mohamed for humiliating and terrorizing him, acknowledge ITS mistake, and use it as a teaching moment to discuss racism and profiling.

That is not what has Happened. Instead, even after learning the clock That was just a clock built as an educational project, the school suspended for three days and Mohamed this letter sent out to parents on Tuesday: