That’s the question I keep coming back to.
He dismantled a clock that could very well have come from Wal-Mart and reassembled the pieces into another case. What exactly was he trying to accomplish or demonstrate? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t some Machiavellian plan to wrangle an invite to the white house.
No, probably just an attempt to “go viral” (though not on the scale he actually did) and possibly to sue the school, depending on how things went down.
Yes, because that totally follows from “bringing a reassembled clock to school”. I don’t know why more people don’t do it, frankly - it’s so obvious!
You’ve got to be Muslim in a less than progressive place like this Texas town for it to have much chance of working.
Oh I see. Fiendishly clever, these [del]Chinese[/del] Muslims.
You know he didn’t bring that clock to school with any intention of getting into trouble for it, don’t you?
I take it you’re new to the thread?
Hang on a minute…
Hates a young boy…scared of clocks…well-spoken but with a weird obsession…
SlackerInc is Captain Hook!
I know you’re goofing around, and that’s fine…but again, FTR: I don’t hate Ahmed, not at all.
I am indeed goofing around, but you are imputing a good deal of malign (or at the very least calculatingly self-aggrandizing) intent to his actions.
I’ll cop to your “at least”, but as I said from the beginning, I identify with him. I fully admit to having a penchant for calculatingly self-aggrandizing actions myself, although I have not succeeded to the extent I would ideally like to. 
I am impressed by what he pulled off, and I am simply tooting my own horn in noting that I didn’t fall for it, that “I see what you did there, Ahmed”.
So you’re projecting. Got it.
Think what you like, but recall that this is a kid who was quoted as telling a favorite teacher “I told you I would be famous on the Internet one day”.
Definitely a smoking gun. No other 14-year-old has ever said anything like that.
Post hoc, ergo deliberately hoc !
Anecdotically, I’ve been working recently on a 1910s journalist (and I use a very broad definition of the word) who used the same logic. According to him the Seine overflowed because torrential rains hadn’t been absorbed upstream due to deforestation. The deforestation upstream (real thing) had been caused by industrial development. The Rotschilds had invested in those industries. Thus the proud article, big bold letters, page 1 : “The Jews Flood Paris !”. All part of the plot, see ?!
Matt Drudge, eat your heart out.
About an ad hoc clock.
