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

Teenager Arrested After Teacher Mistakes Homemade Clock For Bomb

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 tinkering with electronics, proudly took the clock to MacArthur High in ...

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The Arrest of a 14-Year-Old For Making a Clock Is the End Result of a Decade of Anti-Muslim Fearmongering

The Dallas Morning News reports that “Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High,” but “instead, the school phoned police.” Despite ...

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7 Kids Not Named Mohamed Who Brought Homemade Clocks to School And Didn't Get Arrested

because he had his teacher’s approval for the project. —New York Times, January 18, 2002 If you or your child ever brought a homemade clock to school and somehow escaped arrest, feel free to share your story below. Image via h080/Flickr. Contact the ...

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Texas 9th Grader Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

His latest project was a homemade clock. And when he brought it into school on Monday to show his friends and teachers, he was promptly arrested. According to The Dallas Morning News, Ahmed had been keeping the device in a pencil case in his backpack until ...

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9th Grader Arrested After Teachers Thought His Homemade Clock Was A Bomb

A 14-year-old boy in north Texas is making international headlines. His name is Ahmed Mohamed. He’s a robotics fan. And he says he created a homemade clock – circuit boards and wires in a pencil case – to impress his new teachers at high school.

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Muslim boy, 14, arrested for making clock mistaken for bomb

That teacher told him that it looked like a bomb ... #IStandWithAhmed pic.twitter.com/6DoV5g9SNX Ahmed was wearing a NASA t-shirt when he was arrested. Those at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been happy to issue the teen invitations to visit ...

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Muslim teen arrested for homemade clock won't be charged, receives support from Obama

Texas have been under fire after ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for taking the object into MacArthur High School. In a report published in the Guardian, Mohamed, an engineering hobbyist, showed the clock to his ninth-grade English teacher and was ...

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US Muslim boy's arrest over clock sparks outrage

Head to Head - Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Old fears, new threats? Ninth-grade high school student Ahmed Mohamed from Irving in Texas was arrested after his teachers reported him to the police for making a clock, which they said resembled a bomb.

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Muslim schoolboy arrested in US for homemade clock

they took it wrong so I was arrested for a hoax bomb ... said he didn't get the reaction he was looking for when he showed the clock to his engineering teacher. "He was like, 'That’s really nice,'" Mohamed said. "'I would advise you not to show any ...

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Muslim teen creates clock, shows teachers, gets arrested

(CNN)When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he'd made from a pencil case. The 14-year-old's day ended not with ...

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html

 

Muslim Teen Builds Clock, Shows Teachers, is Arrested

A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he'd made from a pencil case. The 14-year-old's day ended not with praise, but punishment, after the school called police and he was arrested. A photo shows ...

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14-year-old Arrested for Engineering a Clock; Obama and Zuckerberg Offer Him Opportunities

It’s likely youv’e seen the headlines. 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed of Texas was arrested at his high school this week for bringing an innovative invention to school–a clock. Despite his teachers knowing it was a clock, and the student claiming as ...

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http://www.techvoid.com/2015/09/16/14-year-old-arrested-for-engineering-a-clock-obama-chris-hatfield-and-mark-zuckerberg-offer-him-opportunities/

 

People Are Rallying Around A Texas 14-Year-Old Who Was Arrested For Bringing A Homemade Clock To School

On top of the arrest, Ahmed has been suspended from school ... leading up to him being pulled from his 6th period class are alarming if true. He claims one teacher told him not to share his clock with anyone else, while his English teacher told him ...

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So You Tried To Make A Bomb?” Muslim 9th-Grader Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School

Then teacher kept the clock, and by sixth period ... “He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’” Police eventually arrested the student and transported him to a juvenile detention center where he had to pose for a mug shot, was fingerprinted ...

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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, showed his Texas teacher a clock he made - then he was arrested

"It made me feel like I wasn't human": Ahmed Mohamed at his home in Irving, Texas. Photo: Dallas Morning News/AP Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers. Instead, he got arrested. In an incident that has raised ...

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Obama invites arrested Muslim schoolboy to White House

The teen was led out of his Texas school after a teacher mistook his homemade digital clock for ... I wanted to show something small at first… they took it wrong so I was arrested for a hoax bomb.” (AFP)

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Obama, Zuckerberg come out in support of Muslim teen arrested for making a clock

Ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed from Irving in Texas - who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart had hoped to impress his teachers when he brought his homemade clock to show his engineering teacher. He, however, did not get the reaction he had hoped for.

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Obama Invites Teen Clock-Maker to White House After Arrest

Ahmed Mohamed—the 14-year-old robotics enthusiast who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school after a teacher confused it for a bomb—has reason to celebrate today. Not only have local police in Irving, Texas, said they will not bring ...

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http://www.wired.com/2015/09/obama-invites-teen-clock-maker-white-house-arrest/

 

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, arrested in Texas school over clock mistaken for bomb

IRVING, Texas -- Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old-boy, was arrested in Texas for bringing to school a homemade clock teachers mistook for a bomb -- a detention some claim was due to his Muslim background. Ahmed brought in the clock to show his engineering ...

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Celebrities Tweet Support For Muslim Teen Arrested for Bringing Clock to School

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested earlier this week when he brought a homemade clock to school, which his teacher mistook for a bomb. The 14-year-old high school student was arrested when his English teacher became suspicious. He was taken to a juvenile ...

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