A 14-year-old Muslim boy in the US was arrested, suspended from school and may face charges of making a hoax bomb after he took a homemade clock to school that his teachers thought looked like an explosive device, triggering fears of Islamophobia.
Ninth-grader Ahmed Mohamed from Irving in Texas — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — had hoped to impress his teachers when he brought his homemade clock to show his engineering teacher. He, however, did not get the reaction he had hoped for.
“He (the teacher) was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” The Dallas Morning News reported, quoting the teen. “I would advise you not to show any other teachers.” Mohamed kept the clock inside his school bag in English class but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson following which he brought his invention up to show her afterwards.