“After that, we’ll see”, Mohamed said. People in CAIR offices around the country posted pictures holding clocks (clocks that look like clocks, not bombs) on their social media pages. “It made me feel like a criminal”.
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Ahmed said his dream is to intend MIT.
Claiming to be victims of anti-Muslim prejudice, Ahmed and his family have already parlayed the clock into (1) that White House invite from Obama, (2) a scholarship fund that quickly raised more than $10,000, and (3) and opportunities from various tech companies. We ought to inspire more children such as you to love science. “It’s what makes America great”, the president tweeted last week.
“An apology has already been made by all of my supports”, Ahmed said in the press conference. The Dallas newspaper indicated that numerous schools offered to enroll Ahmed. He added that he hopes to hear from the reality show Shark Tank, which gives inventors an opportunity to showcase their inventions and get funded by a panel of successful entrepreneurs. All these proved that it was a mass-produced product.
Microsoft sent Ahmed a few thousand dollars worth of products.
The arrest sparked allegations of racial and religious profiling, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations called the case an example of the climate of hate and manufactured fear around the religion.
Napolitano mentioned that, if this stunt was purposeful and “if the parents were involved in this and if everybody from Mark Zuckerberg to President Obama fell for this, this is not good”. “That’s exactly how you build a bomb“. They questioned why Obama was inviting Mohamed to the White House when he has done nothing to show support for cops recently killed and their mourning families. Hundreds of students, just as innocent-looking as Ahmed, have been suspended and arrested for the crimes of drawing pictures of guns, or pretending that a finger is a pistol. He was given a very warm welcome by Google and he was allowed to have a tour of booths and he also took selfies with the finalists, the pictures have now gone viral because of the fame that Ahmed has gotten in the last few days according to a report from USA Today.
“They arrested me and they told me that I committed the crime of a hoax bomb, a fake bomb”, the freshman later told WFAA after being released from police custody. Yet his clock did look suspicious, and Ahmed himself acknowledged he was concerned his clock could have been viewed suspiciously.
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But as a respite from all the attention, the family will first be making a pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, where Mr. Mohamed says, “I ask Allah to bless this time”. The teen was handcuffed and questioned by police, but no charges were filed.
