![]() ![]() The father of Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim American teenager from Irving, Texas, who was arrested last year after officials thought the homemade clock he brought to school was a bomb, is suing the city’s mayor and a host of media outlets for defamation, local media reported.Ī lawsuit filed Monday in Dallas County Court by Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, obtained by the NBC affiliate, names as defendants Mayor Beth Van Duyne and an array of conservative media outlets and personalities, including The Blaze Glenn Beck the Center for Security Policy Jim Hanson, Fox Television Stations Ben Ferguson and Ben Shapiro. ![]() “Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Files Defamation Suit Against Conservative Media,” Huffington Post, Septem(thanks to Pamela Geller): And now Ahmed and his family are moving in for the kill, trying to intimidate people into not even daring to criticize Muslims who engage in these intimidation tactics, for fear of being slapped with a lawsuit. His clock, which looked like a suitcase bomb, was a strike against the dictum “If you see something, say something”: after Ahmed’s clock, school officials and others will think twice before committing career suicide by questioning suspicious behavior by Muslims. This lawsuit is a naked attempt to continue the intimidation efforts that his clock represented. ![]() Yet now he claims to have been “defamed,” and has filed suit. He was celebrated everywhere as an innocent victim of “Islamophobia.” As the Washington Post noted at the height of the controversy over his “clock,” Ahmed was showered with support from “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and Google co-founder Sergey Brin,” while “Tweets, think pieces and daytime TV segments were dedicated to dissecting how Ahmed’s situation typified racism and Islamaphobia in America,” and he “visited the Google Science Fair, met with Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, posed with the queen of Jordan at a United Nations Summit, appeared on the ‘Doctor Oz’ show and last night, made it to the White House.”Īhmed Mohamed became the darling of the political and media elites and met Obama. ![]()
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