SO LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
EVERYBODY HAVING A GOOD TIME? FEELING GREAT? HAPPY? I HAVE
GOT A STORY THAT IS GOING TO FIX ALL OF THAT.
>> A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT NEAR DALLAS HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR
BRINGING A HOMEMADE CLOCK TO SCHOOL, 14-YEAR-OLD AHMED
MOHAMMED ENTITLE CLOCK OVER THE WEEKEND TO SHOW HIS ENGINEERING
TEACH.
AT LEAST THREE TEACHERS THOUGHT IT WAS A BOMB AND THEY CALLED
POLICE.
>> OH, MY GOD.
THIS STORY IS JUST AWFUL.
THE KID MADE A CLOCK AND HE GOT ARRESTED FOR IT? AND LOOK AT
THIS, THEY HANDCUFFED THE POOR KID IN HIS NASA T-SHIRT.
THAT IS RIDICULOUS AND CHECK OUT THE BROTHER COP IN THE BACK.
HE CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT.
>> ALL RIGHT? HE IS JUST LIKE AH THERE IT WAS, THE LAST LITTLE
PART OF MY SOUL JUST DIED.
>> SO HOW DID THE QUESTIONING OF THIS TEMPORAL MASTER MIND GO?
>> SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS QUESTIONED THE STUDENT ABOUT HIS
INTENTIONS.
>> THE STUDENT WOULD ONLY SAY IT WAS A CLOCK AND WAS NOT
FORTHCOMING AT THAT TIME ABOUT ANY OTHER DETAILS.
>> Wilmore: THAT'S BECAUSE THERE WERE NO OTHER DETAILS.
IT'S A CLOCK.
AND IT TELLS TIME BECAUSE IT'S A CLOCK.
THIS STORY IS A GUT PUNCH, MAN.
I MEAN, I WAS A NERD.
THIS KID LOOKS KIND OF LIKE ME.
ACTUALLY, I LOOKED WAY NERDIER THAN AHMED.
AHMED COULD COULD YOUNG LARRY'S ASS TO BE HONEST.
>> BUT LOOK HERE IS A KID WHO WAS DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT,
EXCELLING IN SCHOOL, BUILDING CLOCKS IN HIS FREE TIME, THAT IS
WHAT HE LIKES TO DO, AND NEW YORK CITY IS ABOUT TO SPEND
$80 MILLION TO GET KIDS INTERESTED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND HERE IS A KID WHO IS ALREADY INTERESTED FOR FREE.
>> ALL RIGHT, WELL LET ME SEE WHAT IN CLOCK LOOKS LIKE.
HMM.
ALL RIGHT.
WELL, IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE SOMETHING JACK BAUER MIGHT HAVE
TO DISARM, MAYBE.
BUT ONCE WE DETERMINE THE FACT IT IS A CLOCK THAT DOESN'T COUNT
DOWN HOW DOES HE END UP IN HANDCUFFS.
>> LET'S JUST SAY IT.
THERE IS NO WAY THE SCHOOL WOULD HAVE DONE THIS IF HE WASN'T
MUSLIM.
KEEP IT 100.
I MEAN, SERIOUSLY, IN TEXAS YOU CAN DRIVE THROUGH
CHICK-FIL-A SPORTING AN AR-15 AND NOBODY BATS AN EYE.
THEY JUST ASK IF YOU WOULD LIKE WAFFLE FRIES WITH IT, RIGHT?
>> BUT LOOK THIS IS THE NIGHTLY SHOW WE HAVE TO BE FAIR.
WHICH IS WHY IT'S TIME FOR OUR NEW SEGMENT, FIVE REASONS THIS
MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY ISLAMOPHOBIC.
>> I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MUSIC IS.
THAT IS SO WEIRD.
I THINK IT IS MIDDLE EASTERN, I REALLY DO.
OKAY LOOK GUYS THERE ARE PLENTY OF VALID REASONS THIS MAY NOT
HAVE BEEN AN ISLAMOPHOBIA ARREST.
LIKE NUMBER ONE, THE TEACHERS THOUGHT THAT HIS CLOCK WAS A
TIME MACHINE AND THIS KID WAS TRYING TO GO BACK IN TIME AND
PROTECT BABY HITLER.
IT'S POSSIBLE OR NUMBER 2, 1 OF THE STUDENTS FRIENDS IS A FAN OF
THE NINETIES SLANG AND SAID HEY THAT CLOCK IS DA BOMB, WHICH THE
TEACHERS JUST MISHEARD.
MAYBE.
ALL RIGHT.
NUMBER 3, REASON WHY THIS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN JUST COMPLETE
100 PERCENT NO HOLDS BARRED BALLS TO THE WALL ISLAMOPHOBIA.
THE ARRESTING OFFICERS WALKED IN ON HIS WIFE DOING SOMETHING
UNHOLY WITH A SWATCH WATCH AND NOW HE HAS GOT AN UNSTOPPABLE
VENDETTA AGAINST IN AND ALL-TIME PIECES.
MAYBE? A LITTLE BIT.
OKAY.
THAT ONE IS POSSIBLE.
THE NUMBER 4 REASON IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ISLAMOPHOBIA.
WEIRD KIDS WHO ARE GOOD WITH GADGETS ALWAYS GROW UP TO BE
SUPER VILLAINS, VILLAINS.
ID YOU NOT SEE THE INCREDIBLES? ALL RIGHT? IT IS POSSIBLE.
IT IS POSSIBLE.
AND FINALLY, THE NUMBER 5 REASON WHY ARRESTING A KID WITH A CLOCK
COULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT HE'S
MUSLIM, IN TEXAS, IT ACTUALLY IS ILLEGAL TO MAKE ANYTHING THAT
ACKNOWLEDGES THAT TIME MOVES FORWARD.