Walking up to Ahmed’s house and seeing the media, I wondered, What more is there to write? Where most would see a white kid holding a crude electronic clock, the school apparently saw a Muslim terrorist. Since the principal refused to rescind his three-day suspension, Ahmed has decided to leave that school and enroll at a private school.Ahmed’s story struck such a nerve because the world saw a model student thrown in handcuffs like a suspect whose crime was being brown. While the rest of America and the world sees in Ahmed a geek, a nerd and a prodigy, the principal and the English teacher saw in Ahmed an Arab-looking Muslim terrorist! In the process, they revealed not only their innate Islamophobia, but also their complete ignorance of science and engineering.
#Hey ahmed nice clock code
Nowhere in the code does it say that a student cannot bring a clock to school. The villain in this story is the school’s principal, who sent an asinine letter to the parents basking in the glory of having ‘thwarted’ a terrorist attack! He reminded the parents to review the Student’s Code of Conduct. Would a white kid have suffered such ignominy? To add insult to injury, he was suspended for an additional three days from his school – again without cause. Being placed in handcuffs and detained without the presence of a lawyer or his parents is an abuse of his human rights. It is, however, not all right to handcuff a minor, lead him through the school in front of his fellow pupils and then arrest, detain and interrogate him in the absence of an attorney or his parents.
It is perfectly reasonable to be suspicious of a device and to have it checked out. Google Science Fair tweeted: “Hey Ahmed- we’re saving a seat for you at this weekend’s Google Science Fair…want to come? Bring your clock!” Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I’d love to meet you. It’s what makes America great.”įacebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent two tweets: “Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. President Obama tweeted: “Cool clock, Ahmed. Within two days there were over a million tweets from all over the world in support of Ahmed. Supporters started a Twitter campaign with the #StandWithAhmed hashtag. The picture of the wiry, handcuffed teenager, wearing a quizzical expression on his face that reads, “What have I done?” went viral. Neither the principal nor the police have apologized to Ahmed. The police did not charge Ahmed with any crime. If the police really thought Ahmed had made a bomb, they would have called in the bomb squad. It is illegal for the police to interrogate a minor in the absence of his parents. He showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning who said, “That’s really nice,” but warned Ahmed: “I would advise you not to show any other teachers.”Īhmed kept the clock in his backpack in his English class, but when the clock beeped at the top of the hour, the teacher wanted to see it. Ahmed assembled an electronic clock in about 20 minutes before bedtime on Sunday: a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front. He builds gadgets, repairs computers and makes his own radio. Ahmed Mohamed is a geek robotics and electronics are his passion.
Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP He was suspended from school for three days, but he has not been charged. Police don’t believe the device is dangerous, but say it could be mistaken for a fake explosive. Mohamed was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers on Monday after bringing a homemade clock to school. Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo at his home in Irving, Texas on Tuesday, Sept.
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