“Tortured”? Ridiculous. But no one, of course, is calling him on it. On the contrary: “The White House said Ahmed was invited to participate in an astronomy night next month. The press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the Obama administration thought the boy was failed by his teachers and called the incident a ‘teachable moment.’” And what it teaches is that if a young Muslim comes to school with a suspicious device, school officials must not do anything, for to take any action would be “Islamophobic.”

Ahmed Mohamed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, has for years tried to position himself as a fighter against “Islamophobia.” I debated him a few years ago, with results so bad for him that after the debate, The American Muslim pleaded with Muslims not to debate me. The video is not online right now but I am told it will be put back up today, and I will post it when I receive it.  SOURCE