Allah Said, Build Me A Clock

We Should Fear What's Real

The word "phobia" is defined as an irrational fear of something.  For example, Agoraphobia is one's irrational fear of the open outdoors, even though the open outdoors has never caused one any harm.  Arachnophobia is one's irrational fear of spiders, even though a spider has never caused one any harm.  Yet those who suffer from these fears do so contrary to direct observation, that is, irrationally.  But the word "Islamophobia" is an oxymoron because first, one's reaction to Islam is a natural biological reaction to a very real and present threat, and secondly, because that reaction is most assuredly not an irrational fear; it's instilled from direct observation and experience.

Clock?  Or Bomb Timer?

So the left wing progressive flame throwers are all abuzz about the recent detention and arrest of one Ahmed Mohammad, a 14-year old Muslim Sudanese boy who brought a homemade digital clock to school to impress his teachers.  We're stiffing creativity because of racism, they scream.  Well, that won't fly because Islam isn't a race.  It's an ideology made up of people of many races.   This poor boy's arrest is the result of the preoccupation with Islamophobia.  Nope.  As shown above, there's no such thing as Islamophobia.  It's only a clock, the progressives loudly protest.  Really?  How can you tell?  (See image.)  Considering the Texas school's zero tolerance policy, it can be said that officials did the right thing in investigating the nature and purpose of this ominous looking device, encased as it was in a small metal briefcase.  This is the same zero tolerance nonsense that got a kid busted for a "gun shaped" pop tart.  And another for a "gun shaped" piece of paper.  And yet another for wearing an American flag T-shirt.  

These latter examples were most likely overreactions arising from absurd political correctness.  The former, however, was a reasoned response to a possible threat.  Was the clock really innocent, as the MSM would have us believe?  Or was it a test of the systems in place for the protection of Americans from the horrors of  the evil perpetrated by Muslims practicing their Islamic "faith."  Whichever is the truth, we must always be vigilant, and follow the Reagan dictum:  "Trust, but verify."  This fear is not irrational.