US President Barack Obama has invited a
Muslim boy to the White House after he was
detained by police for taking a homemade clock
to school that teachers mistook for a bomb.
Ahmed Mohamed, 14,
was led away in
handcuffs from Irving
MacArthur High School
in North Texas on
Monday after bringing
the device to his
engineering class.
In a tweet posted on
Wednesday, Mr
Obama said: "Cool
clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White
House?
"We should inspire more kids like you to like
science. It's what makes America great."
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said
Ahmed had been "failed" by his school, calling
the episode a "teachable moment".
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also invited
Ahmed, an aspiring inventor who builds his own
radios, to the social network's California
headquarters.
Ahmed is an aspiring inventor who also makes
his own radios
"Having the skill and ambition to build
something cool should lead to applause, not
arrest," said Mr Zuckerberg.
"The future belongs to people like Ahmed.
"Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook,
I'd love to meet you. Keep building."
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd told a news
conference on Wednesday that Ahmed would
not be charged.
'It made me feel like I wasn't human,' Ahmed
said
"We have no evidence that there was an
intention to create alarm," he told reporters.
The police department earlier said three
teachers at the high school had accused the
teenager of a bomb hoax.
Irving Independent School District spokesperson
Lesley Weaver said students and staff are
encouraged to report any suspicious behaviour.
"We will take all necessary precautions to
protect our students and keep our school
community as safe as possible," Ms Weaver said
in a statement.
Ahmed said he demonstrated his homework
project to his engineering teacher and was
advised not to show it to anyone else.
When his clock rang in English class later in the
day, he said the teacher confiscated it claiming it
looked like a bomb.
Ahmed said he was led into a room where five
police officers were waiting, one of whom
remarked: "Yup. That's who I thought it was."
He was taken to Irving police headquarters to be
questioned, fingerprinted and photographed,
reports the Dallas Morning News.
"It made me feel like I wasn't human," Ahmed
told the newspaper. "It made me feel like a
criminal."
The principal reportedly threatened to expel
him unless he made a written statement to
police. Ahmed has been suspended.
The incident has sparked an outcry on social
media, where #IStandWithAhmed was trending
on Twitter.
His older sisters have set up a Twitter account
for him, @IStandWithAhmed, which has more
than 40,000 followers.
Alia Salem, the director of the North Texas
chapter of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, said the arrest "raises a red flag".
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton has joined the chorus of tweets
supporting Ahmed.
"Ahmed, stay curious and keep building," she
wrote.
Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne defended school
officials, insisting they were simply following
protocol.
She made headlines in March when she accused
Muslims of plotting to bypass US courts by
offering shariah-law mediation to worshippers.


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I strongly condemn this but won't really hit hard on the school cous they acted on precedent of what that sect could really do...

The young females used in Northern part of nigeria as suicide bombers are possibly same age or less nd they come innocent..

Goood! It's better!!

Accused.....

Interrogated......

Discharged!
Anybody could be a suspect but after interrogation, you are defined guilty or innocent.