I’d agree with you the is a Islamist generated situation with the full participation of the White House. If the kid said, science has convinced me that the Earth is billions of years old and evolution describes how we got here, I would listen but building a clock that looks like a bomb??? No thanks and not very difficult.
It sounds like quibbling, but there’s an important point to be made here. The kid didn’t “build” anything - he took the plastic cover off a manufactured commercially-produced clock and put the electronic guts into a pencil case. It’s important because it belies the official narrative that he was so excited about “inventing” a clock that he couldn’t wait to show it to his teachers. He obviously did it to be provocative.