Clock Boy’s $15 Million Ask

Was Clock Boy in it for the money? It’s a fair question, now that his family’s demanding $15 million from Irving, Texas, officials — and, of course, an apology.

Ahmed Mohamed is the 14yearold kid arrested after school officials saw something and said something: i.e., that he might have a bomb. It turned out to be some harmless clockwork.

Ahmed became an instant hero in the fight against “Islamophobia.”

President Obama invited him to the White House. Google, Microsoft and Facebook reached out. He won a scholarship from Qatar.

Yet the story’s taken several turns. Some say Ahmed merely pulled a storebought clock from its case. A report said his sister once may have also been suspended for a bomb threat. And the city of Irving had been grappling with Islamic issues.

Meanwhile, his father has been politically active: Fox News said he once posted a video suggesting 9/11 was a hoax. And the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations, which ceaselessly warns of “Islamophobia,” reportedly provided advice.

OK, if the scarylooking clock was just a stunt, maybe the motive wasn’t financial but political. Still, $15 million won’t hurt.

Meanwhile, another cry of Islamophobia just hit a bump.

Back in 2013, CAIR and others had claimed Saadiq Long couldn’t return from Qatar to see his mom in his native Oklahoma because he’d been put on the nofly list in a fit of . . . Islamophobia.

Yet a PJ Media report this week says Turkey arrested Long and several family members they believed were part of an ISIS cell operating on the TurkishSyrian border.

On Monday, the State Department issued a global travel alert warning of possible “terrorist attacks in multiple regions.”

Yet more “Islamophobia”? If only.