Student’s arrest absurd
A 14-year-old boy brought his newest robotics invention, a clock, to school with the expectation to be lauded by his teachers and peers.
On the contrary, he was handcuffed and whisked to a juvenile detention center. The teachers mistook the clock for a bomb despite the boy’s insistence that it was a clock.
The suspicion was triggered only because the inventor is a Muslim boy named Ahmed Mohamed. The absurdity of this incident has shocked many.
This incident is a nightmare for all Muslim parents. For Muslim children born in the United States, being mistreated and misjudged because of the wrongdoings of a few Muslims risks imprinting horrible emotional scars on their psyches. America must continue to embrace all citizens without exception.
Mansura Bashir Minhas, Fort Lauderdale
This story was originally published September 19, 2015 at 2:06 PM with the headline "Student’s arrest absurd."