It came as absolutely no surprise that anti-Islam radio show host Bryan Fischer defended the arrest of 14 year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school, asserting on his program today that it was entirely reasonable for school officials to be suspicious because Mohamed’s father was a devout Muslim.

Citing reports that Mohamed ElHassan Mohamed had run for the presidency in his native Sudan and had also defended the Quran against radical anti-Muslim zealot Terry Jones, Fischer was incredulous that anyone would fault the school for being on alert when Ahmed “shows up as school with something that looks like a bomb.”

“His father,” Fischer declared, “twice ran for the presidency of Sudan, which is a stridently, vigorously Muslim country. It’s one of the state sponsors of terrorism around the world and Ahmed Mohamed, his father wanted to be the president of Sudan! Twice!”

Fischer also noted that the elder Mohamed dared to “show up to defend the Quran” against Terry Jones, saying that “if you know that about this family, then there’s reasons certainly to be cautious if the son shows up in school with something that looks like a bomb.”