Wilmore Offers 5 Bad Excuses For The Wrongful Arrest Of Muslim Teen (VIDEO)

“The Nightly Show” stood with Ahmed Mohamed on Wednesday night — the 14-year-old Muslim student who was arrested after he brought a homemade clock to school.

But host Larry Wilmore managed to find five reasons Ahmed’s arrest might not have been based in Islamophobia.

The first reason?

“The teachers thought that his clock was a time machine, and he was trying to go back in tie and protect baby Hitler.”

Or maybe his teacher misheard a friend of Ahmed’s using 90s slang?

Watch the reasons, from Comedy Central, below:

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  1. “The teachers thought that his clock was a time machine, and he was trying to go back in tie (sic) and protect baby Hitler.”

    Was it a black tie thing?

  2. The writers were 1 for 5 by my count.

  3. Well, in the Texas police defense, I do recall that the credits for Jack Bauer’s show (which was scary as hell) always had digital numbers. I mean, who can blame them for erring on the cautious side?

  4. big scary fontface!! Italics, in Red even

  5. But number 5 was the best:
    In Texas it is illegal to make anything that acknowledges that time moves forward.
    Rim shot, I think is the term.

    Edit: please tell me I just didn’t say something off color?

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