AV Archived Richard Dawkins questions Ahmed Mohamed's 'motives' and sparks backlash (theguardian.com)
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AV Archived Richard Dawkins questions Ahmed Mohamed's 'motives' and sparks backlash (theguardian.com)
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[–] ObscureReference 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago (edited ago)
Because he was an excited fourteen year old kid who wanted to show off how smart he was. This was not the first thing he had shown off.
If you want to consider him as a kid who is starting shit then you can. I can believe he is could be an enthuastic, possibly socially akward geek who didn't think his invention out. [Edit] And you are using a jpg making this a political thing about religion?
[–] RoninSnowman 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
No one who has a logical rational thought in their head would believe that this kid is smart for putting the internals of a clock into a suitcase to make it look like a clock; everyone knows thats BS! It was made to look like a bomb. End of story. We have 100's upon 1000's of movies that predicate as such that if you see a clock and a suitcase together it's a bomb. Someone, if not the kid, may have coached this kid into building it this way to suit a narrative or agenda
[–] ObscureReference 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
As in to get sympathy for Muslims? Because a 14 year old nerd arrested in a NASA t-shirt proud of his 'hacked' clock will do that regardless of his race/religion.
Or am I missing the point?
[–] sreggin_llik 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
He was a fourteen year-old kid who wanted to show everyone how smart he was by taking apart a clock and shoving it in a briefcase so the other kids would think he had made a bomb. (It wasn't a fucking invention of any kind!)
And I'm not the one making it a "political thing", you ignorant jackwad, that's the doing all of the people losing their shit over this story because a "brown" kid actually got in trouble for acting like an idiot.
[–] ObscureReference ago
Your best guess is that his intent was to scare or intimidate people with a fake bomb.
I guess this has entered political-social conversation and this is the split.
BTW, insulting people in threads by using base insults, to me that is really low-class. I am less impressed with the direction voat is going in here.