Last month blogger Katie Singh wrote an article for the Burnt Orange Report titled, "Is Anyone Surprised Texas’ History of Islamophobia Led to a Child’s Arrest?" A very leading question, no doubt about it. In the article she goes on about how "the story is infuriating for more reasons than I can count" where she asks stupid questions like, "how come a 14 year-old (in a NASA T-shirt, no less!) gets arrested bringing in a clock, yet white kids can open carry actual guns without consequence?" Katie continuously blames our flawed system in case where she knows has no facts.
She is partially right about a lot of our problems here in the state, like many idiotic claims that all Muslims are terrorists or this church that posted a sign that was clearly outside of the separation of church and state. These people are morons but, that does mean that you can automatically claim that the school and/or police department are in the wrong. With a little digging you can find out that, Ahmed forced a lot of situations to happen that cause a great deal of alarm. Since then the school have requested permission from Ahmed's family to release their statement. However, since the case is/was dropped against the school and police, all you will ever be likely to hear is Ahmed's side of the story. In order to protect the officers involved, the police will not release their statements either.
So at the end of the day we, originally myself included, have all been condemning this school and the responding officers without the knowledge of any real facts of what actually happened that day. Almost everyone involved is at fault. From the bigots saying idiotic things about Muslims, to those of us that jump to our Muslim friends' sides, we should be ashamed for passing judgment say hastily and without the proper knowledge.
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