“Plaintiff does not allege any facts from which this court can reasonably infer that any IISD employee intentionally discriminated against Ahmed Mohamed based on his race or religion.”

Of course. No one discriminated against him. School officials were trying to protect the students, which is what this lawsuit was trying to forestall in the future, making future school officials afraid to do anything against a Muslim student who was behaving in a threatening manner.

As the Washington Post noted at the height of the controversy over his “clock,” Ahmed was showered with gifts and support from “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and Google co-founder Sergey Brin,” while “Tweets, think pieces and daytime TV segments were dedicated to dissecting how Ahmed’s situation typified racism and Islamaphobia [sic] in America,” and he “visited the Google Science Fair, met with Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, posed with the queen of Jordan at a United Nations Summit, appeared on the ‘Doctor Oz’ show and last night, made it to the White House.”

Ahmed Mohamed became the darling of the political and media elites and met Obama. He was celebrated everywhere as an innocent victim of “Islamophobia.”

He became an international hero. Yet he then claimed to have been “defamed,” and filed suit. This lawsuit was a naked attempt to continue the intimidation efforts that his clock represented. His clock, which looked like a suitcase bomb, was a strike against the dictum “If you see something, say something”: after Ahmed’s clock, school officials and others would think twice before committing career suicide by questioning suspicious behavior by Muslims. And then Ahmed and his family moved in for the kill, trying to intimidate people into not even daring to criticize Muslims who engage in these intimidation tactics, for fear of being slapped with a lawsuit.

A rare bit of sanity from a federal court is a welcome sight indeed.

“EXCLUSIVE: Judge dismisses ‘clock boy’ lawsuit saying the school didn’t discriminate against Ahmed Mohamed when the Muslim teen’s teacher called the police because she thought he made a bomb,” by Kaileen Gaul, Dailymail.com, May 19, 2017: