Arab-looking man of Syrian descent found in garage building what looks like a bomb...

[ehrnst]

Omar Ghabra won Twitter with these photos, and this quip: “An Arab-looking man of Syrian descent in a garage w/his accomplice building what appears to be a bomb. Arrest them.”

The tweet was a response to the story everyone's outraged about today: Ahmed Mohamed, the kid in Texas whose wonderful homemade clock sparked a racist reply by his school, and by authorities.

Apple founder Steve Jobs, seen here in classic “garage” photos with Steve Wozniak, was the son of a Syrian migrant to the United States.


http://boingboing.net/2015/09/16/arab-looking-man-of-syrian-des.html

[Eleanors38]

1. I thought Wozniak is a Japanese Jew. Da Horror!

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. kick

[Glassunion]

3. 37

[madokie]

4. It is Immigrants

who by and large make all our lives better. The freedom that freedom brings knows no bounds. It is why America is who we are.
Thank you my Native American friends for tolerating us.

[Boomer]

7. Seriously?

"Thank you my Native American friends for tolerating us."

We didn't give them any choice, so "tolerance" is a disingenuous way to describe the taking of this country from its original inhabitants.

[madokie]

10. Maybe a bad word choice

I agree

I almost didn't write those words.

[BarstowCowboy]

12. I understood what you meant

I understood that you were trying to show that you feel bad for what we've done to the First Americans, I could tell that your heart was in the right place.

[madokie]

13. Thanks

peace

Oh and welcome to DU, we like good people here. You'll fit right in.

[rhett o rick]

15. I totally understood your meaning. In other parts of the world people treated as badly as the

American Indians were, often become terrorists.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Note that Jobs and Wozniak actually built and sold "blue boxes" (used to make illegal phone calls)

but stopped before they were caught by police...

See:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/10/steve-jobs-first-business-was-selling-blue-boxes-that-allowed-users-to-get-free-phone-service-illegally/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Should have known Jobs was a terrorist since he was pals with Al Gore.

Send a battalion of Texas oath keepers to help California shut down the bomb making headquarters.

[4lbs]

8. I guess that explains this Apple bomb!

Oh noes!!!111!!1!1111!!!!!!


WATCH OUT !!! It's a TRAP !!

[Helen Borg]

19. That looks more threatening than Bibi's bomb!

[malaise]

9. I actually thought of Steve Jobs when I read about Ahmed's horrific arrest this morning

Too much ignorance - everywhere

[passiveporcupine]

11. This is great!

Send this picture to the school.

[underpants]

14. :-)

[lunatica]

16. He was always ahead of his time.

[progressoid]

17. The great and powerful Woz

[Helen Borg]

18. Obviously terrorists!

And they were smoking pot too!

[The2ndWheel]

20. Nobody made a big deal about Mohamed making the clock at home

It was that he brought it to school, for no official school reason, and it accidentally made a noise that nobody was expecting. Then the police and school went way too far in their reaction after everyone figured out what happened.

[mdbl]

21. The comparison doesn't wash

Things were just a little bit different in the 1970's . It makes for good sensationalism though while it makes a shaky point.

[ReactFlux]

22. It's an excellent point

pointing out that we hadn't lost our minds in the 70's, while terrorism existed back then, too, is an excellent point.

[mdbl]

23. Except now it's in our face

Terrorism existed back then, but usually somewhere else.