Ahmed Mohamed could have been ‘head of a gang’: teacher

The Dallas Morning News reported Saturday that Mohamed had racked up “weeks of suspensions” during middle school.

A bomb threat was called into MacArthur High School this morning, prompting an immediate evacuation at the same Irving, Texas, high school where freshman Ahmed Mohamed brought in a homemade clock-in-a-box on September 14 that school officials deemed a “hoax bomb”.

Sometimes those inventions got him in trouble.

Ahmed received an outpouring of support, including an invitation to visit the White House from President Barack Obama.

Mohamed, 14, was arrested earlier in September after rigging a digital clock inside a case and showing it to a teacher, who thought it was a bomb.

The teacher, Ralph Kubiak, elaborated, saying that Mohamed’s “one of those kids that could either be CEO of a company or head of a gang” and that he boasted “I’m going to be really big on the Internet one day” – a truly damning statement coming from a 14-year-old in the Age of PewDiePie. When he was sent to the principal’s office, he cited his First Amendment rights.

As the media continues to fawn over the Muslim “clock boy” in Irving, Texas, reports are now coming out that Ahmed Mohamed is no stranger to getting in trouble at school – or making claims of religious discrimination. He allegedly pranked a room full of classmates by using a homemade remote control to turn off a projector. But peers and former teachers said a few of the incidents were blown out of proportion.

According to a friend of Ahmed’s family – Anthony Bond – one of Ahmed’s suspensions came after he blew soap bubbles with a cousin in the restroom.

In regards to his discipline at Sam Houston, Bond told the Morning News, “Kids are kids”.

Bond also wrote in the letter that a school administrator was “terrorizing” Ahmed since the 6th grade, not allowing him to pray in school and unfairly punishing him. He also created an impromptu cell phone charger on the fly to help a tutor whose phone had gone dead. “He was a little boy in a new environment, and they were acting out”. That suspension was overturned.