Texas: Irving 9th-grader Ahmed Mohamed arrested after taking homemade clock to school

'Hoax Bomb': Texas Student Arrested Over Homemade Clock

I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something and I end up being arrested later that day." His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, said he drove his son to school Monday morning and encouraged him to demonstrate his gift for technology.

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School student creates a clock for science project, gets arrested for being Muslim

His only crime it seems is being a Muslim. Ahmed strapped a homemade clock inside a pencil case and took it to school to impress his teachers. While his engineering teacher praised its design, the teacher asked him not to show it to other teachers.

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Teenage Muslim schoolboy in US arrested over homemade clock mistaken for bomb

A 14-year-old boy was arrested for making a homemade clock after teachers mistook it for a bomb. The father of the teenager is concerned that the incident happened because of the boy’s Muslim background. Ahmed Mohamed, who is a student at MacArthur High ...

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11868543/Teenage-Muslim-schoolboy-in-US-arrested-over-homemade-clock-mistaken-for-bomb.html

 

14-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School

When it beeped in class another teacher took it away. Then Ahmed was arrested. He was released to his parents soon after but the police wanted to be careful. Ahmed is a tinkerer. His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, came from Somalia and is famous for ...

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http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/16/14-year-old-boy-arrested-for-bringing-homemade-clock-to-school/

 

Muslim teen arrested in US over homemade clock resembling bomb

A 14-year-old Muslim boy in the US was arrested, suspended from school and may face charges of making a hoax bomb after he took a homemade clock to school that his teachers thought looked like an explosive device, triggering fears of Islamophobia.

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Shame: Muslim boy brings home-made clock in school in US, arrested

Washington, Sept 16: A 14-year-old Muslim boy in the US was arrested, suspended from school and may face charges of making a hoax bomb after he took a homemade clock to school that his teachers thought looked like an explosive device, triggering fears of ...

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http://www.oneindia.com/international/shame-muslim-boy-brings-home-made-clock-school-in-us-arrested-1871117.html

 

Boy (14) who brought homemade clock to school arrested 'for making bomb'

A 14-year-old boy who loves making clocks was arrested after a teacher noticed his pencil case was stuffed with electronic circuits. Ahmed Mohamed, who also makes and repairs radios and regularly repairs his own go-kart, was brought in handcuffs to a ...

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http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/boy-14-who-brought-homemade-clock-to-school-arrested-for-making-bomb-31532177.html

 

9th grade student in Texas makes a clock to show his engineering teacher; arrested for making a bomb

Ahmed Mohamed, a 9th grader in Irving, Texas is an engineering whiz. For fun, he makes workable gadgets and rudimentary electronics. Basically, he is what we dream an American 9th grader will be in 2015 as our nation lags behind the world in math and ...

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/16/1421758/-9th-grade-student-in-Texas-makes-a-clock-to-show-his-engineering-teacher-arrested-for-making-a-bomb

 

Muslim boy arrested after teacher mistakes his homemade clock for a bomb

A 14-year old Texas high school freshman has been arrested after he brought a homemade clock to school that a teacher mistook for a bomb. This isn't another one of those wild overreactions by school administrators to stuff like a pop tart fashioned into a ...

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/muslim_boy_arrested_after_teacher_mistakes_his_homemade_clock_for_a_bomb.html

 

Muslim 14-year-old ARRESTED after teachers claimed the alarm clock he made for engineering class 'looked like a bomb'

A Muslim teenager was arrested and led in handcuffs after bringing in his home-made clock into school after teachers claimed the invention 'looked like a bomb'. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, from Irving, Texas, created the device and brought it into school to show ...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3236603/Muslim-teenager-arrested-Texan-teachers-claimed-home-alarm-clock-looked-like-bomb.html

 

Ahmed builds a clock, shows it to teachers, gets arrested for having a ‘bomb’

To Irving, Texas, where 9th-grad Irving MacArthur High student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, is being sent to juvenile detention. Police are looking to charge him with making a hoax bomb. Ahmed Mohamed didn’t make a bomb. He didn’t pretend to make a bomb.

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http://www.anorak.co.uk/423508/news/ahmed-builds-a-clock-shows-it-to-teachers-gets-arrested-for-having-a-bomb.html/

 

Muslim teen arrested after Texas teachers mistake homemade clock for bomb

A Muslim whiz kid was arrested Monday after his teachers mistook a harmless digital clock he made for a bomb, sparking concerns about Islamophobia in Texas. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, brought the clock into MacArthur High School to show his engineering teacher his ...

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/muslim-teen-arrested-teachers-mistake-clock-bomb-article-1.2362316

 

Texas School Has Child Named Ahmed Arrested for Bringing a Homemade Clock to School

The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer ... In 2007, Irving police began turning over immigrants who had been arrested on unrelated charges to the federal government for deportation, ultimately deporting more than 4,000 people.

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http://jezebel.com/texas-school-has-child-named-ahmed-arrested-for-bringin-1730999357

 

Muslim teen arrested in US over homemade clock resembling bomb

A 14-year-old Muslim boy in the US was arrested, suspended from school and may face charges of making a hoax bomb after he took a homemade clock to school that his teachers thought looked like an explosive device, triggering fears of Islamophobia.

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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/501310/muslim-teen-arrested-us-over.html

 

14 Year Old Muslim Student Arrested Because His Assignment “Looked Like A Bomb”

When he brought it out of his bag to stop, his English teacher said it “looked like a bomb” and had him sent to the Principal. Ahmed Mohamed was later arrested and questioned without his Parents or guardian present. During the interrogation ...

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http://www.360nobs.com/2015/09/14-year-old-muslim-student-arrested-because-his-assignment-looked-like-a-bomb/

 

Texas High School Has Muslim Teenager Arrested for Building a Clock

But when he showed his English teacher, she called authorities and had him arrested. Responding officers say Mohamed repeatedly explained the device was a clock and although a police spokesperson says the department “had no reason to think it was ...

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http://gawker.com/texas-high-school-has-muslim-teenager-arrested-for-buil-1731000257

 

14-Year-Old Muslim Boy Arrested for Making Clock Mistaken As Bomb

Ahmed Mohammed enjoys tinkering with electronics. IRVING, Texas (AP) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy has been arrested in North Texas after a high school teacher decided that a homemade clock he brought to class could be a bomb. Ahmed Mohamed, who enjoys ...

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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

On Tuesday, a 14-year-old boy was arrested in Irving, Texas, after bringing a homemade clock to his first day of high school, as his teachers believed it was a fake bomb. Ahmed Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News that he’d been on the middle-school ...

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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/09/ahmed-mohammad-arrested-clock

 

Muslim 9th Grader Brings Homemade Clock to School, Police Arrest Him for Hoax Bomb

Hoping to impress his teachers, Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock to school with him on Monday. As a result, Mohamed was handcuffed and detained in a juvenile center and his clock was taken away as ‘evidence’. While Mohamed repeatedly told ...

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http://www.newsweek.com/muslim-9th-grader-brings-homemade-clock-school-police-arrest-him-hoax-bomb-372805

 

Texas student arrested for homemade clock school thought to be a bomb

On Monday, he decided to take his homemade clock, made inside a pencil case, to school. But instead of impressing his teachers, they called police and he was arrested. According to The Dallas Morning News, the clock is still sitting in an evidence room as ...

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