People are making him at least a large part of the issue, by inferring nonsense with no background, shading. Because they're Muslims and, hey, you know how those people are. Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, 'nuff said.lain:
As for the kid, he didn't disobey a directive. I don't know why you think that. As someone who is the son of a teacher, who has been and will in relatively short order again be a teacher, that's not what happened.
One teacher told him it wasn't a good idea to carry it around. Again, if the teacher was really worried about it then all that teacher, the adult, the one who stands in loco parentis, who is supposed to have a fully functional prefrontal cortex, all that teacher had to do was confiscate the device and tell Ahmed he could have it back after school.
But he didn't take it. He didn't forbid it (which would have been silly, because if you're at that stage you're at the taking stage) and a fourteen year old boy, left to his own judgment, decided to continue to show it off. About as startling as rain falling from the sky.
The police who arrested him, via their chief, have publicly admitted that they found no reason to believe the boy was trying to perpetrate a bomb hoax and the worst thing the most ardently engaged at making the kid look bad have come up with on the device is that it's a badly redone alarm clock.
So, to recap: no actual forbidding or confiscation by the teachers (because, again, those two things are PBJ), no belief by the police that he attempted a hoax and no bomb.
If that's not a recipe for a national news story, what is...
I am bored with this whole thing. I, too, have taught and would assume that if I told a student "That is not a good idea". he would get the hint and refrain from the activity. Yes, he is a child and the children of today tend to do as they please. And we could go on and on and on.
The idea that the president invited this kid to the white house is rather galling considering how many other very worthy young persons might also have been invited to the white house? Do you suppose the invitation was extended because this young person was a Muslim? Hmmmmmmm? Sounds like, possibly, maybe, could be racial profiling?
