I really do mock the entire family, as his parents and other family members, who are older went along with this charade. What I find despicable is that they put him out as the poster child for something he did not even think of or design, That is sad - well at least in my book.
I understand it is not his fault entirely. He had / has horrible parental guidance.
Yes I do believe the school was wrong to stereotype this boy and that the police acted pretty inhumanely. Though I must say that I do see the teacher’s side. I saw a picture of the clock he made, and in all honesty, it does look like a bomb to me…
This boy is very bright, but you need to understand that the President (and other influential figures) getting involved and praising him is a huge popularity scheme. I’m positive this boy will end up somewhere great and he will be absolutely brilliant, but to everyone on CC, try to look at this story from the other perspective.
Lol I’m just waiting for the hate and angry CC people to viciously put down my beliefs.
When I was 12, I once dismantled an alarm clock, swiped the buzzer, made a circuit breaker out of a hair clip, attached to my bedroom door and called it a doorbell. When my brother was 14, he assembled a Heath Kit radio (and he was no genius, believe me).
14 yr-olds today use widgets like Raspberry Pi to make robots. Ahmed did nothing. He put himself out there for mockery.
Well he might have put himself out there for mockery, but he still snagged a visit with President Obama. Not too shabby.
He snagged a visit with President Obama because he got arrested.
“He snagged a visit with President Obama because he got arrested.”
That’s true, but I don’t blame the kid for any of this. I think that Dad set him up, trying to see what would happen. I’m sure this worked out better than Dad could have ever imagined, and he certainly parlayed the kid’s 15 minutes of fame into far longer, for the kid and for himself.
" I wonder what his parents are going to do in Qatar. The kid got a scholarship by the Qatar Foundation, but the family is not Qatari (they have Sudanese roots)."
It will be interesting to see. I’m sure the father will take full advantage of the situation. However, seeing as there is massive discrimination in Qatar between expatriates and citizens, it could be challenging. Extremely low wages for expatriates and modern day slavery could make it very difficult to live there, unless you have a sought after skill. Perhaps the family is planning to live off the lawsuit they intend to win.
ah, aw, mocking the whole family is so much better.
How is questioning what the family will be doing “mocking?” I don’t see anyone making fun of the family at all. I wonder what the sisters will do, they didn’t get a scholarship, where will they be going to school? I think they will find life outside of the US very different. I also think Muhamud might be in for a bit of culture shock too.
I was responding to post # 660, 3scoutsmom.
A fourteen year old boy tinkers with some electronic components, re-configures them, and in his ignorance, thinks he’s “invented” something “new”. In the manner of kids everywhere, he can’t wait to show off his “brain child” to an adult whom he likes and respects, hoping for an atta-boy and a pat on the back. Happens day everyday, and few people deride his efforts, accuse him of intellectual property theft, assume he’s trying to terrorize people with his gadget, or engage in unbridled speculation as to his (and his whole family’s) supposed nefarious intent. They don’t call the cops, handcuff him, arrest him, nor twist themselves into pretzels in order to come up with some rule or law he’s violated in order to justify such actions after the fact.—Unless he’s a Muslim of Middle Eastern descent. Then, of course, they’re just exercising that long-standing American tradition of paranoid, racist xenophobia. Nothing to see here.
Stupid kid. What? Did he actually expect he’d be treated like a white boy his age?
Ahmed Mohamed: US ‘clock boy’ meets Sudan leader
The 14-year-old American who made headlines after being arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school has met Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34551890
When you welcome a photo op with a war criminal, then good riddance…
Come on, GMT, get some perspective here. SO much worse to have been an ignorant, racist person fearful of a Muslim kid with something that looked like a bomb, than to be a brutal dictator, masterminding genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Really! Omar al-Bashir is a hero compared to those stupid, evil Americans. Why not buddy up to him? He’s the good guy here.
Update: Clock boy (and family) is trying to extort $15 million from the city and school district
http://www.scribd.com/doc/290859889/2015-11-23-City-of-Irving-Demand-Letter
edit: do you think this kid hates America enough that he belongs on a watch list?
15 million is excessive, but if the district is smart they will negotiate a very small settlement, and make this go away. His rights were violated, and instead of making a bunch of lawyers rich, they should agree to a small settlement.
You think Clock Boy would have been invited to the WH, MIT, etc had the family sued earlier?
What a way to trash the staggering wealth of good will…
If some people want to drive more Muslims into the arms of ISIS and other extremists, they have certainly found the right way to do it: keep making public statements deriding ALL Muslims. Convince more people that we are engaged in a war against Islam, not opposing terrorism.
And that is a battle we simply will not win. Look at the numbers.
Sue for a ridiculous amount over something that never should have happened in the first place?
It seems to me that this is a very Americanized family 
The kid built a clock which looked like a bomb and brought it to school. How do you think the school would have reacted? He get’s $100,000 donated to him and numerous awards and scholarships for no other reason other than he happened to bring a bomb-looking suitcase to school while happening to be part of an ethnic group most associated with acts of terrorism in a state where xenophobia and racism is as common as oil. And now they want $ 15 million dollars? This is a case where my feelings are inexplicable. Man I wish I had a suitcase…
It’s one thing to sue for a public apology; it’s another to sue for $15 million.
If I was one of the universities offering a scholarship, I’d recind, because this family is establishing that it isn’t about honor; it’s about money grubbing.