The Irving police chief, Larry Boyd, said at a news conference on Wednesday that the officers were justified in detaining the teenager based on the information they had at the time, when initially it was “not immediately evident that” Ahmed’s clock was a class experiment. “That is not America,” he said of Ahmed’s detainment. What kind of dumbasses call the cops on a kid who built a freaking clock?! More:Īhmed’s father, Mohamed El Hassan, 54, was at turns humble, emotional, grateful and patriotic, making it a point to mention they lived in their house for more than 30 years and that his son had fixed his car, his phone, his electricity and his computer and had built, in true all-American fashion, a go-kart. 19, an event bringing together scientists, engineers, astronauts, teachers and students to spend a night stargazing from the South Lawn. Obama’s staff invited Ahmed to the White House for Astronomy Night on Oct. “Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. “Cool clock, Ahmed,” President Obama said on Twitter. By Wednesday, it had brought him an invitation to the White House, support from Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg, and a moment of head-spinning attention as questions arose whether he had been targeted because of his name and his religion.Īs a result, a 14-year-old freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., who is partial to tinkering, technology and NASA T-shirts and wants to go to M.I.T., found himself in a social media whirlwind that reflected the nation’s charged debates on Islam, immigration and ethnicity.
From the NYT:Īhmed Mohamed’s homemade alarm clock got him suspended from his suburban Dallas high school and detained and handcuffed by police officers on Monday after school officials accused him of making a fake bomb. I have been away from the keys most of the day, and am just now learning about what happened to that poor kid Ahmed Mohamed in Texas. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. Mohamed has sent out numerous tweets of his trip to the country, and reportedly promised to return someday “with a new invention and success.Cool clock, Ahmed. Mohamed’s name was reportedly blocked out by Bashir on the ballots in 2010, with the Sudan Tribune reporting him saying “I was told that Bashir personally intervened with the court to reject my challenge.” What makes this doubly surprising is that Mohamed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, is a Sudanese immigrant who ran against Bashir in two of his presidential elections. Bashir’s dictatorial government reportedly offered sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden during the 90s, and the country is still under economic sanctions by the US. The problem with this is that Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide, crimes against humanity and various other war crimes in Darfur. The Mohameds reportedly told the state media that Bashir was impressed by the “Clock Kid’s” scientific interest and encouraged his pursuits.Īhmed Mohamed (“clock boy”) with Sudan’s genocidal tyrant.
The Washington Post reported that Mohamed and his family were received at a compound in Khartoum, Sudan on Wednesday, where they were greeted by President Omar al-Bashir. Mohammed’s interest in science was vigorously acclaimed by online commentators, and he received invitations from places ranging from Silicon Valley to the White House.īefore Mohamed meets President Obama though, reports indicate he met a different president this week that might come as a shock to his defenders. When Ahmed Mohamed was mistakenly suspected of bringing a bomb to school last month, he and his homemade clock became an overnight news point on racial profiling and Islamophobia.
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