#Thankyouforstandingwithme #IstandWithAhmed.” He tweeted, “Thank you for your support! I really didn’t think people would care about a Muslim boy. Ahmed, stay curious and keep building.” Ahmed seems to be enjoying the attention, and manages to keep the focus on the narrative. Hillary Clinton, never one to miss an opportunity for positive press - which is scarce for her these days - tweeted, “Assumptions and fear don’t keep us safe - they hold us back. The Twitter hashtag #IstandWithAhmed has been used to show support for Ahmed. And he fishes for an invitation to be on Shark Tank. He gets a GoFundMe account and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from Microsoft. Then he gets arrested for bringing a fake bomb to school and becomes a celebrity. A Muslim boy says he was called a “bombmaker” and a “terrorist,” so he takes a clock apart, puts the internal parts and few extra lengths of wire into a small briefcase, takes it to school, and sets the alarm to start beeping in the middle of class. I felt like all the names I was called.” When asked what he meant by “all the names I was called,” he explained that he had been called a “bombmaker” and a “terrorist” in middle school. Let that sink in. He told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that when he was questioned by police, “I felt like I was a terrorist. In a video interview with NBCFW, the Fort Worth, Texas, NBC affiliate, he said, “I closed it with a cable, ’cause I didn’t want to lock it to make it seem like a threat, so I just used a simple cable so it won’t look that much suspicious.” Yet his clock did look suspicious, and Ahmed himself acknowledged he was concerned his clock could have been viewed suspiciously.
Here’s the narrative: A young, inquisitive, genius invents a clock and brings it to school, but because he is a Muslim, he is arrested for bringing a fake bomb to school. He has not tweeted invitations to the families of fallen police officers. Oddly, he has not made the same invitation to the many other kids who have been suspended, expelled, or arrested for drawing pictures of guns or biting their pop-tarts into the shape of guns. Instead, President Obama invited the young charlatan to the White House. I had one just like it in 1980-something.” Or how about, “You didn’t build that!” Maybe Obama should have tweeted, “Nice try, Ahmed. Richard Dawkins - famous evolutionary biologist and atheist - called Ahmed “a fraud.” All he did was take a commercially available digital clock from the 1980s, remove the internal parts from the plastic case, add a few wires - which serve no purpose and do make the whole thing look pretty suspicious - and drop it into a large pencil box that looks like a small briefcase.
Several Youtube videos and articles written by electronics experts and enthusiasts compellingly demonstrate that Ahmed didn’t invent anything. When the executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Alia Salem, tweeted a picture of him with the goodies, Microsoft replied, “Enjoy … we can’t wait to see what you create with it all!” After all, he did invent a clock out of circuit boards, transistors, resisters, switches, a display and a small briefcase, right? Microsoft sent Ahmed a few thousand dollars worth of products. He told Good Morning America, “I’ve wanted to be on … and I guess now I have a chance to be on there, only if the entrepreneurs on that show would accept me.” He added that he hopes to hear from the reality show Shark Tank, which gives inventors an opportunity to showcase their inventions and get funded by a panel of successful entrepreneurs. He said he has been offered an internship at Twitter and both Google and Facebook contacted him about opportunities with them. In an interview with Good Morning America, Ahmed said, “This isn’t my first invention and it won’t be my last invention.” He seems proud of his clock and his scientific ability which made it possible for him to create it. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. By mid-week he was receiving gifts and internship offers from corporations and a GoFundMe account was set up to with the goal to raise $60,000 for his tuition to MIT.
By the end of the day Ahmed Mohamed was a celebrity with his name and face all over the Internet.
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