自制闹钟事件后续：道金斯推特质疑“造了个钟”

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道金斯推特质疑“造了个钟”的穆斯林少年的动机，被政治正确狂喷。
他怀疑少年不过是把把一个店里可以买到的闹钟拆了，再装到箱子里面，带到学校，这不叫发明创造。

http://www.theguardian.com/scien ... med-motive-backlash

Richard Dawkins questions Ahmed Mohamed's 'motives' and sparks backlash

Evolutionary biologist says boy’s arrest was wrong, but questions whether he really invented an alarm clock
Dawkins tweeted: ‘If this is true, what was his motive? Whether or not he wanted the police to arrest him, they shouldn’t have done so[.]’


The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins found himself at the centre of controversy on Sunday when he questioned the motives of Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who was arrested and detained in Texas when a teacher thought a clock he had made was a bomb.

Dawkins did not dispute that Mohamed should not have been arrested, but questioned whether the boy had truly “invented” the clock, as has been reported. He tweeted:

Mohamed, whose parents are from Sudan, was arrested, handcuffed and questioned by five police officers at MacArthur high school in Irving on Monday. He was then suspended for three days.

He told MSNBC he was not allowed to call his parents and was accused of carrying a hoax bomb. He said: “I felt like I was a criminal, I felt like I was a terrorist. I felt like all the names I was called.”

He added: “In middle school I was called a terrorist, called a bomb maker, just because of my race.”

In a controversy that largely played itself out on Twitter, Mohamed then received overtures from Silicon Valley tech companies, support from Hillary Clinton and an invitation to the White House from President Obama.
Ahmed Mohamed is tired, excited to meet Obama – and wants his clock back
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On Friday, Mohamed spoke to the Guardian. Such national attention was “worth it, once you realize what you’re fighting for”, he said, adding that that fight was “not just for Muslims … but for anybody who has been through this”.

Dawkins, the author of books including the groundbreaking The Selfish Gene, the bestselling The God Delusion and the memoir A Sense of Wonder, is a leading critic of religious belief and an advocate for rational thought.

On Sunday, the emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford said he was simply looking for the truth of the Texas schoolboy’s story.

In a tweet, the scientist linked to a YouTube video entitled Ahmed Mohammed [sic] Clock is a FRAUD, in which user Thomas Talbot alleges Mohamed’s clock “is in fact not an invention. The ‘clock’ is a commercial bedside alarm clock removed from its casing”.

In his tweet, Dawkins said: “If this is true, what was his motive? Whether or not he wanted the police to arrest him, they shouldn’t have done so.” His next tweet said of the video: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.”

Ahmed Mohamed thanked his supporters on Wednesday, but added he is keen to move schools

Subsequent tweets, issued against a growing storm of online protest, said: “Assembling clock from bought components is fine. Taking clock out of its case to make it look as if he built it is not fine. Which is true?
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“Yes, there are other reasons why a boy might take a clock out of its casing & pretend he’d made it. Trying to impress teachers, for instance[.]”

Linking to an artvoice.com blogpost entitled Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s clock … and Ourselves, Dawkins tweeted: “If the reassembled components did something more than the original clock, that’s creative. If not, it looks like hoax.”

Dawkins eventually retreated. He devoted tweets to questioning police motives and tweeted a reference to the new leader of Britain’s opposition Labour party: “Sorry if I go a bit over the top in my passion for truth. Not just over a boy’s alleged ‘invention’ but also media lies about J[eremy] Corbyn.”

In an answer to a Twitter user who wrote: “I think you too frequently confuse ‘truth’ with ‘obsessive and unnecessary dedication to accuracy’”, Dawkins wrote: “That could well be true, in which case I apologise. I guess I’m a bit sensitive about being among the many fooled.”

He subsequently retweeted President Obama’s White House invitation to the boy.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmSwJTqpgY

有网友分析为啥这钟根本不是他自己造的， 而不过是把买来的闹钟拆了外壳，把部件重新安置了。

洗心

如果是真的，那么其动机，就可圈可点了。

其实要确定这个钟是不是小男孩自己造的，还是其实来自市场上现成的闹钟，技术上应该不是太难的事。 问题是政治正确，敢于质疑这事的人立刻被扣上歧视穆斯林的大帽子。 比如下面这篇， 大骂道金斯关注这个不起眼的细节就是歧视穆斯林。

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/2 ... ahmed-mohamed-fraud

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政治不正确的说，如果是华人少年做同样的事，同样会被抓，弄清后顶多道歉，而不会有后来那么多好事。

qyangroo

如果是真的，这孩子是个造势玩政治的天才，说出的话也很有政客范儿。想起阿扁的子弹门。

龙血树

所谓自由言论，也就是哄发展中国家玩儿呢

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qyangroo 发表于 2015-9-23 05:50
如果是真的，这孩子是个造势玩政治的天才，说出的话也很有政客范儿。想起阿扁的子弹门。 ...

据说孩子老爸是个穆斯林活动家，家学渊源啊。

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洗心 发表于 2015-9-23 06:10
据说孩子老爸是个穆斯林活动家，家学渊源啊。

穆斯林活动家啊，我喜欢！
再多来点同性恋活动家，原住民活动家，移民活动家，动物保护组织活动家吧！