Mohamed said he continues to pursue his interests in science, and his next project is an electrical generator. Last week, he met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is also accused of genocide and regarded as a war criminal. Obama isn’t the only president Mohamed has had the pleasure of meeting lately. The high school student brought his homemade clock to school but was later escorted out in handcuffs after a teacher reported that he had a bomb. Since Wednesday morning, Ahmed Mohamed - a young man now internationally known for being arrested for making a homemade clock that his teachers thought resembled a bomb from a movie - has. Ahmed Mohamed, the teenager whose clock sparked fears of a bomb in a school in Texas, meets President Obama at the White House. “I don’t believe that the president will have the opportunity to meet with meet one-on-one with Ahmed Mohamed,” press secretary Josh Earnest said in a White House briefing Monday.Īhmed Mohamed - “clock boy” - meeting at White House Astronomy Night /94hgLe3sIU Those words came from president Obama’s twitter account after a 14-year old Texan named Ahmed Mohamed became world famous. Mohamed did get to briefly speak with Obama at the event, despite reports that the White House had tried to distance Obama from Mohammed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. and showed students a photo of the controversial clock. On September 14, 2015, then 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at the MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a disassembled digital clock to school. Dan Joseph, with the conservative Media Research Center, visited the campus just outside D.C. ![]() ![]() Mohammed was invited to the White House’s first Astronomy Night after President Obama tweeted a message of support at him two days after his arrest.Ĭool clock, Ahmed. Students at George Mason University overwhelmingly thought Ahmed Mohamed’s homemade clock looked like a bomb, according to a new video published online. Do you agree with them?”ĪM:“I don’t agree with them because I’m pretty sure if I was a caucasian male I wouldn’t have got arrested, because it’s not right, because you know… Pretty sure I would’ve been awarded the smartest kid in class if I was a caucasian male.” He then brought the contraption to school on Monday to show off to his engineering teacher. BG: “Do you think if you were a caucasian, non-Muslim you would’ve received the same treatment? Because law enforcement seems to say ‘yes’.
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