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we've ranked presidential hopefuls from most Islamophobic to least Islamophobic.Įvaluations are based on statements made by candidates and an extremely scientific and totally accurate scale of Ahmed Mohamed(s). Wired magazine was among those who responded to the incident with a mixture of humor and horror, posting an article entitled 'How to Make Your Own Homemade Clock That Isn't a Bomb' and encouraging kids to bring them to school.Following Donald Trump's plan to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. 'We're still investigating,' she said, 'but it seems pretty egregious.' 'This all raises a red flag for us: how Irving's government entities are operating in the current climate,' Alia Salem, who directs the council's North Texas chapter, told the Morning News. Mayor Beth Van Duyne has claimed that Muslims are plotting to impose Sharia law in America.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the heavy-handed response is particularly suspicious given the current political climate in Irving. All prisoners are handcuffed for their own safety, Bond said, adding 'unfortunately we've had people jump out of cars.'Ī school district spokeswoman also stood by the school's response, telling reporters that once people see images of the homemade clock they will understand that 'we were doing everything with an abundance of caution'.Ī photo provide by police to local media showed a flat, rectangular red digital clock face screwed into the dark plush interior of a silver case along with a circuit board and some wires. He also insisted that officers did the right thing when they handcuffed Mohamed and brought him to a juvenile detention center for questioning. That's a very suspicious device,' the police chief said. 'Our reaction would have been the same either way. He insisted that Mohamed's ethnicity had nothing to do with the police response. Once released, he was suspended from school for three days. The aspiring inventor, who lives in Irving just outside Dallas, said police would not let him call his parents during a lengthy interrogation. The school called police and Mohamed was taken away in handcuffs amid suspicion that he intended to frighten people with the device. ''I would advise you not to show any other teachers.''īut the alarm went off during his English class, and that teacher told him it looked like a bomb and confiscated the clock. 'He was like, 'That's really nice,'' Mohamed said.

Mohamed, who had loved robotics club in middle school and was hoping to find something similar in high school, said he didn't get the reaction he was looking for from his engineering teacher. they took it wrong so I was arrested for a hoax bomb.' I wanted to show something small at first. 'My hobby is to invent stuff,' he said in a video posted on the paper's website that was filmed in his electronics-filled bedroom. Mohamed told The Dallas Morning News that he was just trying to impress his teachers when he brought the clock to MacArthur High school on Monday. Hillary Clinton September 16, 2015įacebook co-founder and CEO too supported him on Facebook. The photo of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed standing in handcuffs, wearing a t-shirt with the US space agency NASA's logo, was retweeted thousands of times in a matter of hours and '#IStandWithAhmed' was the top trending hashtag on Twitter.Īmong those voicing support for the boy was Hillary Clinton, who tweeted:Īssumptions and fear don't keep us safe-they hold us back. It's what makes America great.- President Obama September 16, 2015

Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. As criticism and condemnation poured in on social media for what was called one of the worst instances of Islamophonia and racial prejudice, US President Barack Obama tweeted:Ĭool clock, Ahmed. The Muslim teen who was arrested in the US today after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, received a pat in the back from the President.

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