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#IStandWithAhmed going to the White House
A 14 year old kid from Irving, TX who invented a clock and took it to school was later arrested when his teachers thought it was a bomb threat. Now he’s being invited to the White House by President Obama.
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This past week started out pretty bad for north Texas high school student Ahmed Mohamed. This past Monday when the teen, who is a Muslim, brought a clock he invented to school, he ended up getting arrested when police falsely accused him of making a hoax bomb.
But by the middle of the week now his name and face are known all across social media and around the world. He’s gotten support via thousands of Facebook posts and tweets from people who want to encourage him. The President Barack Obama even invited him to visit the White House and said:
Other Leaders from the tech world including Reddit and Twitter, Google and MIT also extended invitations to Ahmed. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg invited him to come check out FB HQ, saying “Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed.”
By this time today the hashtags #IStandWithAhmed as well as #EngineersForAhmed have gotten hundreds of thousands of tweets and posts across all forms of social media.
When interviewed by Chris Hayes from MSNBC Ahmed told them how he was removed from his classroom at MacArthur High School by five officers and his principal, they took him to a room and questioned him for over an hour.
He said that he wanted to call his parents and asked the adults if he could, just to be told “No, you can’t call your parents, You’re in the middle of an interrogation at the moment.” and then continued to ask him several times “Is it a bomb?” Ahmed says he answered them a couple of times, saying “It’s a clock.”
After all of this interrogating took place Ahmed says it made him feel like a criminal, “I felt like a was a terrorist. I felt like all the names i was called.” When he was in middle school, Ahmed told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that he was called “bomb maker” and a “terrorist” by other students “Just because of my race and religion,” Also recalling that when he first walked into the room where he would be questioned, a police officer sitting back in a reclined chair said “That’s who I thought it was.” and Ahmed took it to mean that he was pointing at him for what he is, his race, the 14 year old explained.
Ahmed has now spoken to CBS news at a press conference outside of his home just hours ago and summed it up by saying that everyone must know by now he is the kid who got in trouble for bringing a clock to school, he said he wanted to impress his teacher but unfortunately its sad that she took it as a threat.
Now that the charges have been dropped Ahmed says he would very much like to go to MIT and is planning to switch schools from MacArthur to “any different school.” Check out what he had to say in the video below.
Ahmed has been invited to the White House to show off his invention!
What do you think about Ahmed Mohamed’s situation over in Irving, TX… Do you think the school was wrong for involving the police and having him arrested or was it a good thing that they followed through and checked out any possible threat? Let us know what you think in the comments section below!
