A Muslim student, who became an Internet sensation after his arrest in the United States for bringing to school a homemade clock that was mistaken for a bomb, today announced that he has got the timepiece back. Mohamed tweeted the good news Friday afternoon.
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“Got my clock back finally!!”
The clock has been retrieved after the police mistook it as a “bomb” in September and arrested the 14-year-old when he showed it to his professors as his science project. Though police didn’t pursue criminal charges, the 14-year-old was suspended from school for three days, and withdrew from MacArthur High on September 16.
His family said on Tuesday that they’d accepted a foundation’s offer to pay for his high school and college and that the whole family would be moving out. The incident ignited a global response and the trending hashtag #IStandWithAhmed, and sparked a national discussion on how Muslims are perceived in the U.S.
Instead, he said, “Muslims should try to share their common humanity with others to demonstrate that they are regular people”.
Moving to the Middle East…
This would not have happened to any of my classmates, Mohamed told AlJazeera English after his arrest, according to the Guardian.
Mohamed visited Doha earlier in the month and has been on a worldwide tour, visiting a number of foreign dignitaries, including Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir.
American university campuses, which attract both Qataris and foreign students, are clustered in the foundation’s Education City on the western edge of the capital city of Doha.
In its report, The Washington Post said that a close family friend and the founder of the Irving, Texas, chapter of the NAACP, Anthony Bond, confirmed that Ahmed’s family reached the decision within 24 hours after the White House visit. The teachers were great. “This means, that we, as a family, will relocate to Qatar where Ahmed will receive a full scholarship for secondary and undergraduate education”, his family said in a statement.
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“Here in high school, none of the teachers know what I can do”, said Ahmed in an interview with Dallas Morning News.
