[geeks] Ahmed, the accidental terrorist?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 09/19/15 21:19, Rjtoegel wrote:
> Well, my only disagreements with this whole thing is that the claim is he
> "invented" it which IMHO, he didn't and the overreaction by the media, the
> authorities and these offers (internships, visit to MIT and the president)
> presented to him where only a handful of the forty finalists in the last Intel
> Science Talent Search (barely) got to meet the president and those kids worked
> long and hard (even years) on their projects.  Somehow, to me, it just doesn't
> seem fair.

Could not agree more.  I'm betting that nothing would have happened had
he not been brown and had a Muslim-sounding name.  But it did, and now
for better or worse, the kid's become a political football.


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