for Obama to accompany him?...."
Posted on 09/22/2015 4:17:40 PM PDT by markomalley
Ahmed Mohamed, known worldwide as “Clock Boy,” still plans to meet President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. But before he does so, he may go on a detour to Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, Ahmed’s father, says that the family is flying to New York to meet with United Nations dignitaries Wednesday. Then, they hope to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic hajj, if the family can get a visa, and finally to return to the U.S. to meet with the president.
All Muslims financially and physically capable of doing so are expected to undertake the hajj at least once in their life.
According to the Dallas Morning News, both of Ahmed’s siblings have been pulled out of the Irving Independent School District, with plans to place the entire family into a new school when they return home. Ahmed had already been withdrawn from his school, MacArthur High School.
“These kids aren’t going to be happy there,” Mohamed told the press.
It’s not clear which international dignitaries are so eager to meet Ahmed, or what countries they represent. It’s also not clear where the Mohameds plan to have their children attend school once the lengthy vacation is over.
Last week, many expressed outrage after Ahmed was arrested at school for bringing a disassembled clock to school that police thought may have been a “hoax bomb.” Obama praised his “cool clock” and invited him to the White House, he received a lavish set of gifts from Microsoft, and he was brought to California by Google to visit the company’s science fair.
But over the last few days, there has been increasing criticism of the Mohamed family. The clock he “invented” was identified as a commercial clock with the casing removed. Talk show host Bill Maher and others suggested it was reasonable for school officials to believe the clock was a bomb hoax, while others have proposed that the incident was a stunt engineered by Ahmed’s father, who has campaigned against Islamophobia.
Despite the tremendous outpouring of public support for Ahmed from the tech community and many politicians, his father claims the period has been extremely stressful. According to Daily Mail, Mohamed says his son hasn’t been sleeping or eating right.
“It’s torn the family and makes us very confused,” he said.
How do we know he will not be going to Yemen?
And at just about the same time....some dude jumped up in the audience and asked Trump about Muslims. We got snookered....twice....and you can bet BOTH were a Dem setup.
Maybe lightening will strike a crane.... never mind.
the counter clockwise crowd rampage around the KABA can be very dangerous..perhaps clock boy will try to further impress his parents by getting in the thick of it..
Strange, really strange!
That picture is a keeper.
Probably won’t return to public schools.
Hopefully he and his siblings will end up at Sidwell Friends. lol
That would be wonderful!
Since your son did nothing more than rebox the innards of an old clock, he had no justification for taking the device to school other than as part of a bomb hoax. That will make it difficult for you to win a lawsuit against the school district for Islamophobia.
But, you sure fooled Obama, Zuckerberg, Microsoft management, etc. Your false story of bigotry was just too good for leftists to check.
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