Sept. 18, p2

Encouragement poured in from across the nation for a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose homemade electronic clock led to his detention and suspension from school, with US President Barack Obama, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a NASA scientist among those offering support.

As word spread that Ahmed Mohamed had been placed in handcuffs after coming to class with the clock that officials at his suburban Dallas school thought resembled a bomb, the teen became a star on social media, with the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed tweeted more than 1 million times by Wednesday night.

Many also took to social media to criticize police and officials at MacArthur High School, suspecting them of overreacting because of the boy'€™s religion. Officials say the boy'€™s religion was not a factor.

In a tweet, Obama called Mohamed'€™s clock '€œcool'€ and said more kids should be inspired like him to enjoy science, because '€œit'€™s what makes America great'€.
 

Your comments:

Times have changed since 9/11.  Just go through any airport to see the difference. Just imagine the impact on the teacher when the clock was produced.

Jagera

In the US, when a boy of a minority religious group is unfairly treated, he receives an invitation from the president and over 1 million (and counting) support tweets.

In Indonesia, when Muslim mobs vandalized a Christian church, or killed three Ahmadiyah followers, did any Christians or Ahmadiyah get invited to the President'€™s palace?

Or receive millions of tweets in support, in the world'€™s most prolifically tweeting country?

This is one of a thousand reasons why one country is a developed first-world country and the other
a backwater verging on a failed state.

Wandering Star

In the West, we keep an eye on Muslims. Racial profiling works. Who else should I be concerned about? Swedish exchange students or Japanese tourists?

Doorgunnerhuey

A 14-year-old should be preoccupying himself with World of Warcraft, not trying to re-invent the clock.
What an antisocial weirdo.
If you happen to come across any personality like that, please do not hesitate to alert the authorities.

Abu

As a teenager, Isaac Newton would build models of windmills.
Thomas Edison also used to play around with electrical stuff when he was young.

Simba

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