Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth grader from Irving, Texas, came to school with his newest creation – a clock which he invented in just 20 minutes, consisting of a circuit board and a power supply wired to a digital display. The clock and its wiring were all strapped inside a case.
Does this sound familiar?
But when he showed his engineering teacher the clock, who told him “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”
Ahmed took his advice, keeping the invention in his bag for the rest of the day. But when the clock’s alarm went off during English class, the teacher complained.
When the 14-year-old showed his teacher the source of the beeping, she said: “It looks like a bomb.” Ahmed responded by saying it didn’t look like a bomb to him.
Later on, while Ahmed was in his sixth period class, he was pulled out by the principal and a police officer.
The ninth grader was then taken to a juvenile detention center, where he was fingerprinted and had mugshots taken. He was, however, able to meet his parents soon after, and was spared a night in a cell.
Source: RT
He was suspended from school for three days.
Police initially said Ahmed could face charges of making a “hoax bomb.”
Police added that “it could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”
Fringe Islamic groups are yelling “Islamophobia.” It is not about the boy. It is about the clock. Police and teachers say the clock looks like a bomb.
It doesn’t look like a clock, but why did they have to handcuff him? Was he evasive and uncooperative? How difficult is it for him to tell them that it is only a clock? Was it a prank gone bad? Responsicble adults should have been able to arrive at answers to these questions in just a few minutes.
I hope I opened your eyes to the truth.
A picture with inaccuracies proves nothing.
Good