Ahmed The Clockmaker Moving To Qatar For Study After Meeting Obama

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year old Muslim boy whose teacher mistook his home made clock to get a bomb, will move along with his family to Qatar. He received a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education.

Last month, the teenager made headlines and attracted support after police removed him from MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, and detained him, suspicious about a clock Mohamed had taken apart and reassembled in a small pencil case.

Ahmed’s family announced that they are moving to Qatar after the “Astronomy Night” at the White House hosted by Obama at the White House.

Earlier this month, we were invited to visit QF and were hugely impressed by the state of the art facilities, community atmosphere and vast array of U.S. and global campuses on offer in Education City.

In a phone interview with The Washington Post, Ahmed’s 19-year-old sister Eyman said the family had been under a lot of pressure after being thrust into the media spotlight. It later became evident that the device was only a homemade clock engineered by the ninth-grader, and not a bomb or anything of such. There’s been zero evidence shown for those conspiracy theories, though Ahmed probably didn’t help his optics by meeting last week with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, dictator of the country he was born in and an accused war criminal.

Obama subsequently Tweeted an invitation to Ahmed and said the US should inspire more kids like him to enjoy science.

Anthony Bond, a close family friend and the founder of the Irving, Texas, chapter of the NAACP, an African-American civil rights organization, said a number of conspiracy theories have appeared on the Internet about Mohamed’s arrest.

“As an incubator of knowledge and talent, QF values its multiculturalism, diversity and non-discriminatory atmosphere, and is happy to welcome Ahmed to the Young Innovators Program”, a foundation statement said.

Though Ahmed received messages of support on Twitter from influential leaders such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton, NASA and Obama, there was also a backlash against the attention the teen received. “They even have Texas A&M at Qatar …”