LA CENTER, Wash. – La Center High School senior Ibrahim Ahmad thinks he’s “the bomb,” but school officials think his “promposal” is a dud.

“In ‘promposals,’ you’re supposed to go big,” Ahmad told The Columbian. “It’s kind of the trending thing now, too, where everyone just asks in a really creative way.”

Ahmad, who is Middle Eastern, thought it would be hilarious to strap a fake bomb to his chest and trot on stage in the cafeteria to ask Rilea Wolfe to the prom. Ahmad, 18, was actually wearing a paintball vest with red paper rolled up with cheesy red wires to look like a bomb, according to the news site.

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His homemade sign read “I know it’s a little late, but I’m kinda … the bomb! Rilea, will u be my date to prom?”

“I’m Middle Eastern, and I though the bomb was kind of funny and clever,” Almad told The Columbian. “I wasn’t wearing the vest for more than, like, 20 seconds. I asked her, took a picture, took it off, and then the school got upset.”

“It was really unfair, and felt kind of racist,” he said.

Almad told the media he didn’t break any school rules, and district officials didn’t point to any specific violation, but superintendent Mark Mansell said the students actions were “inexcusable” and deserve punishment for “disrupting the learning environment,” according to the Daily Mail.

“To me, it’s just blatant disrespect,” Mansell told The Columbian. “The student knew that the principal wouldn’t support this and we went ahead and did it anyway.”

And that deserves a five-day suspension, according to Mansell, because it’s important to always be politically correct.

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“I want all my kids to be safe and supported, but there’s a line,” he told the news site. “Given the way the world is today and school safety, even if one parent or one student was upset by this, it causes issues.”

There was, however, no indication that a parent or student was upset by Almad promposal, Mansell added.

“A cellphone video from the audience shows some in the crowd laughing and cheering after Ahmad came out on stage,” The Columbian reports.

Regardless, “it’s offensive to me,” Mansell said. “Any student that would think strapping a (fake) suicide bomb to his body is funny and clever would be punished.”

Almad told the media he plans to take his date to dinner since his suspension runs through the prom weekend. He said he understands why the district is so sensitive about the incident, but thinks the reaction is partly because he’s Middle Eastern.

“If anyone else did that, I feel like no one else would have gotten in trouble for it,” he said.

Ahmad’s story has since gone viral and he’s basking in the glory on his Twitter page, according to The Columbian.