Texas & Islamaphobia
| A Muslim 14-year-old was arrested for bringing a clock to school.School officials in Irving, Texas, mistook the homemade clock that 9th-grader Ahmed Mohamed brought to school for a bomb. Alarm bells were raised about Islamophobia when one of the arresting officers who greeted Mohamed in the principal's office said, “Yup, that’s who I thought it was,” when he saw the boy. Mohamed had never met the man before. |
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