U.S. student Ahmed Mohamed (14) and family leave Texas school

If you designed a cool project, wouldn’t you want to show your teacher without suspicion?

Maher said there’s no doubt that Mohamed is owed an apology and that authorities went too far in their response. Ahmed, stay curious and keep building’.

Ahmed also got to pal around with Sergey Brinn, tweeting a photo of himself with his right arm draped over the Google co-founder’s shoulder.

According to one of his friends, Ahmed has a reputation as a tinkerer and creator.

How did Ahmed become a celebrity practically overnight while hardly anyone knew him a couple of days ago? The kindest spin one can put on the school’s and police actions is they were motivated by ignorance, irrational fear and racial stereotyping.

Unfortunately, his English teacher was least amused. Police played into his hands? While Ahmed has certainly had no shortage of offers to attend other schools (in addition to some pretty snazzy invitations from tech companies and political leaders alike), the situation, as he describes it, remains “very sad”. “Hopefully, we can all learn from this week’s events and the student, who has obvious gifts, will not feel at all discouraged from pursuing his talent in electronics and engineering”.

He told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that when he was questioned by police, “I felt like I was a terrorist”. Many posted messages of support for the youngster, with the hashtag #IStandwithAhmed eventually trending on Twitter. “They don’t exist, because they don’t help President Obama castigate America as xenophobic and backwards”.

Who brought up the idea that the clock was a fake bomb? Contrary to what Shakespeare said, name does matter a lot in some places and at some times. “But I can tell you, this is a manufactured product and not an invention”.

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school freshman from Irving, Texas who made headlines last week when his homemade clock was mistaken as a bomb, was visiting the Google Science Fair in California on Monday.

Once those formalities are completed, the district will release Ahmed Mohamed as well as the family’s other children, a younger brother and sister, who the patriarch unenrolled.

He also said that when the family returns to the USA , “we’ll visit President Obama“. Over the weekend, Atheist Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher stepped up to criticize the youth, whose clock – which he brought to school to impress a teacher – earned him an arrest when another teacher thought it was a bomb.

After that, his father hopes to take Ahmed on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the newspaper said. There are many instances of discrimination based on religion and colour in the world. The Department of Homeland Security’s website has an entire section dedicated to encouraging citizens to be aware of their surroundings and to report anything they may think isn’t quite right.