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 Ahmed had already been withdrawn from his school, MacArthur High School.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.
Un-fn-believable.
Let the little bastard take his “clock” through the TSA checkpoints before his flight...
Are these people legal U.S. citizens?
They should be on the terrorist watch list...that punk son is a Jihadist in training.
Watch out for toppling cranes in Mecca, ya young wanna be terrorist.
this little creep and future ISIS puke will get more lessons in making better bombs, er I mean...’clocks”
Why not also give ClockBoy the Nobel Prize..?
No longer means anything, anyway...
Interesting who becomes a hero and who becomes a criminal in this culture.
Clock/bomb = hero
Crossdresser = hero
Christian values = criminal
This was a set up. This is a phony clock and bull shit situation. All these that have jumped to his defense is to ensure that no one will question a Muslim student with a bomb again. This is too just clear the path so other liberals will be justified in not questioning the bomber or to prevent it from happening. Now are children are in grave danger.
If they get a VISA on such short notice ... you know it’s a muzzie administration
Maybe he can tour Afghanistan. I hear they have a special prize ceremony for 14-year old boys.
I pray one of them falls on the little muzzie ba$tard!!
Better yet, let him take the "clock" with him to the White House, and then complain about racism when the Secret Service tears it down to make sure it is not a bomb before they let him in...
Our not are sorry
Surprise, anyone?
Being a member of a protected class, I suspect he won't have any trouble. After all, many TSA workers these days are co-religionists.
Or hide it in his backpack when he visits the White House.
You took the words right out of my mind.
UN Dignitaries?? This can't be happening. I just don't get it.
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