Texas teen arrested for homemade clock to move to Qatar

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old from Texas who became known as the “Clock Kid” after he was arrested for bringing a clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, will be moving with his family to Qatar, the BBC reported Wednesday.

“Here in America, you have much more freedom practicing the faith”, he said. The incident ignited a global response and the trending hashtag #IStandWithAhmed, and sparked a national discussion on how Muslims are perceived in the U.S.

Mohamed’s family said on Tuesday that they had accepted a foundation’s offer to pay for his high school and college in Qatar and that the whole family would be moving there. Mohamed will soon be leaving Irving with his family to move to the Middle Ease to attend school.

Ahmed was never officially charged in the clock incident, and police in the Dallas suburb of Irving have denied the teen’s Muslim background played any role in their response to the call of a suspicious device after a teacher mistook the clock for a possible bomb.

People who saw Ahmed’s list of presidential friends rose questions about the morality of hanging out with a wanted global war criminal, but the topic didn’t come up at the event.

Texas teenager Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school on suspicion that it was a bomb, visited the White House for Astronomy Night on October. 19.

“The Muslim-American community feels under siege by all this”, Hooper said.

Mohamed tweeted about his enthusiasm for Qatar, as well as the family’s visits to Sudan, his father’s home country, and Saudi Arabia in the past month.

American university campuses, which attract both Qataris and foreign students, are clustered in the foundation’s Education City on the western edge of the capital city of Doha. Police later released Mohamed and announced that no charges would be made against him.

A statement released by the Qatar Foundation on Tuesday said the Young Innovators Programme “encourages recipients to follow their aspirations in education while fostering a culture of innovation and creativity”. “I think I will learn a lot and have fun too”.