Posted on 09/16/2015 3:14:15 PM PDT by TroutStalker
A high school student in Texas whose hobby is inventing thought he had a great idea for a project: to build his own clock.
The effort landed him in handcuffs and juvenile detention on Monday, accused of making a hoax bomb.
The detention of Ahmed Mohamed, 14, a student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., near Dallas, generated a national furor even after the police said on Wednesday that he would not be charged as questions arose about whether he was targeted because of his religion.
The episode even came to the attention of the nations top leaders, who deplored the treatment of the young man. Cool clock, Ahmed, President Obama said on Twitter. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. Its what makes America great.
Mr. Obamas staff went on to invite Ahmed to come to the White House for Astronomy Night, to be held Oct. 19, an event bringing together scientists, engineers, astronauts, teachers and students to spend an evening stargazing from the South Lawn. The presidents spokesman held out the encounter as a case study in unreasoned prejudice in an era when the country is fighting Islamic terrorism at home and in the Middle East. Continue reading the main story
Shortly before a news conference Wednesday outside his home in Irving, Ahmed still wearing the NASA shirt he wore when he was detained waved to a thick crowd of reporters from the doorway as his family brought out pizzas and drinks for the media. Ahmed said he was considering transferring out of MacArthur High and had indeed accepted President Obamas invitation
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He was accused of making a “hoax bomb”? In other words, he was accused of not making a bomb.
WTF? A 14 year old can’t drink beer when the cops act stupidly. What difference does it make anyway. Is Obama hoping to lead from behind with the kid in private to prove his most transparent administrative policy in history?
The muslim world must be laughing its asses off at us....
White kid would still be in juvie detention.
I wonder if a white christian kid did this what would have happened
That’ll be two moo-ham-heads in the wh. At least two.
Has the idiot, hysterical, teacher been ID’d?
Tar, feathers, and horsewhips will cure this crap.
This kids dad is a Muslim activist... spoke out against and debated the Koran burning guy apparently.
Seriously, a clock that needs a briefcase to fit in—in this age of miniature electronics?
I think this kid is kind of dumb.
As is Zuckerberg, Clinton and Obama, who think this kid is a genius of some kind.
White kid would never have been arrested.
Our president is pathetic. Not one murdered police officer’s family is invited, but a 14 yeat old muslim builds a clock and BAM! invite.
handcuffing was an overreaction, HOWEVER a quick look at the picture, it does look like it could be something dangerous. If they were not careful enough it could have been a real problem. Plus, his teacher told him that he shouldn’t have brought it to school. If that were the case, as well, why didn’t that teacher keep it locked up for him?
If a kid gets in trouble for taking a bite out of a pop tart to make it look like a gun, then this kid got what he deserved for flirting with the line of insanity.
Nothing.
Actually plenty of white kids have made clocks without getting in any trouble at all.
No invite for kim davis, jailed for practicing Christianity...guess that would happen when Cruz is president.
Meanwhile, first grader gets suspended from school for making a pop tart that “Resembles” a gun I dont remember Obama calling his family and giving his full support to him..oh yeah almost forgot..white kid gets suspended no phone call, Muslim kid makes a fake bomb and he gets invited to the White House..Hey Obama, did you call Kate Steinle or the Kentucky State Trooper murdered by one of your goons yet..yeah I didnt think so
The school didn’t appreciate his playing coy about the suspicious device he cobbled tother from an alarm clock.
And that’s what he did. He ripped up an alarm clock and put it in a new larger case. He didn’t “build a clock”.
Any idiot knows that bombs don’t beep or tick. Just ask Joker Tsarnaev.
The kids who wore the American flag tee shirts and got expelled - when are they getting invited to the White House?
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