Was Ahmed Mohamed arrested because he is Muslim?

A clock - that’s all it was. But for 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed from Texas, the simple homemade invention got him arrested when he took it to school. Officials thought Mohamed had a hoax bomb. Since the world found out about Mohamed’s case, he has had a mass outpouring of public support, with US President Barack Obama inviting him to the White House.

There is a lot of stereotypes for people who are foreigners and they have… names mainly in Islam.

Ahmed Mohamed.

At home in Irving, Texas, Mohamed and his family appeared to take the ordeal — and the subsequent media circus — in stride, serving up pizza and beverages to the horde of reporters who flocked to their lawn for a press conference Wednesday. Sporting the same NASA T-shirt he was handcuffed in days earlier, Ahmed, told reporters he was saddened by the reaction to his clock — which he’d brought to school in hopes of impressing his engineering teacher — but grateful for the outpouring of support he’s received since.

He fixed my phone, my car, my computer. He’s a very smart, brilliant kid.

Ahmed’s father Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed.

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