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US President Barack Obama has issued a
White House invitation to a Muslim schoolboy who was arrested for
bringing a homemade clock to school.
Ninth-grade high school student Ahmed
Mohamed from Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after his teachers
reported him to the police for making a clock, which they said resembled
a bomb.
The arrest prompted outrage on social
media with thousands expressing their anger at authorities for arresting
a 14-year-old boy over his school project.
Social media users rallied behind the
teen using the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed, which has picked up more than
500,000 mentions on Twitter so far, according to analytics site Topsy,
and continues to rise rapidly.
The story also ranked highest on the user-generated curation website, Reddit.
Police have said they will not charge
Mohamed but he told reporters on Wednesday that he remains suspended
from school until Thursday.
US President Barack Obama has issued a White House
invitation to Ahmed Mohamed, the 14 year old Muslim schoolboy who was arrested for bringing a
homemade clock to school. Above is a tweet from the president's account.
There is a strong and angry reaction to this on social media with the
hashtag #IStandwithAhmed. 14 year old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after
he'd made a clock at home and brought it into MacArthur High School in
Irving to show his engineering teacher who congratulated him.
Another teacher who heard it's beeping sound during class, saw it and
believed it looked like a bomb, alerted school authorities who called
the police.
The homemade clock consisted of a circuit board with wires leading to a digital display. Later in the day the boy was pulled out of class and interviewed by the school's headteachers and four police officers. A head teacher also threatened to expel him if he did not write a statement. He was later led out in handcuffs and put into juvenile detention. He was however released to meet his parents after he was fingerprinted.
The homemade clock consisted of a circuit board with wires leading to a digital display. Later in the day the boy was pulled out of class and interviewed by the school's headteachers and four police officers. A head teacher also threatened to expel him if he did not write a statement. He was later led out in handcuffs and put into juvenile detention. He was however released to meet his parents after he was fingerprinted.
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