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 Ahmed had already been withdrawn from his school, MacArthur High School.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.
Did Obama go to Mecca during his “lost years”? or should we expect a trip after he retires?
Watch this kid very closely, all the time.
Maybe he and his papa are angling for a big check from the Saudis.
On September 12, 2001, we should have surrendered. It would be less painful. And we would certainly not be treated to rainbow White Houses along with this crap.
Now THAT would be total karma, in spades.
I took a clock apart once. I think I got grounded for it. This kid goes to the UN?
We don’t know.
his records are sealed, remember? 8<)
Of course, EVERY ONE of his primary and general election opponents’ divorce and sealed court records were released during his earlier campaigns, but nobody is going to see any problem with “that” ....
It was a clock manufactured in the US, he didn’t even modify it.
How do you “invent” a clock, something that was first “invented” in the 13th century?
Going to the Middle East, probably hooking up with guys who “really know how to do it right”, coming back and visiting the White Crib. What could go wrong?
Under Texas law, these kids will not get credit for this school year due to the absences from their “extended vacation.”
The little bastard wants a job in NASA so he can be part of the upcoming Mars landing hoax, staged in Area 51.
Heck - if Clock Boy waits a year or two he will be able to make the Haji to Mecca with Obama.....
Hope his visit with O after returning from Mecca, doesn’t end with a bang..
Well, he’d better not be late ever again.
I’m waiting for him to get a scholarship to MIT and then flunk out because there’s more to engineering than being able to take the 4 screws out of a clock enclosure and stuff the contents into a case.
In new America deliberate muzzie provocations are rewarded with trips to the White house and tons of gifts from Microsoft.
He hasn’t been sleeping or eating right...because he’s a fraud. And the kids at school are laughing their a***** off.
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