Was Ahmed Mohamed arrested because he is Muslim?

Posted by Anup Baral September 18, 2015 : Mehdi Hasan speaks with the 14-year-old student arrested over a homemade clock. There is outrage on social media over the arrest of a 14-yr-old boy from Texas which has led to support pouring in from around the globe. A 14-year-old North Texas boy will not face charges after he was suspended over a homemade clock that teachers, administrators and police found suspicious.


Ahmed Mohamed, who is Muslim, was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving on Monday afternoon. He said he enjoys tinkering with electronics and took the clock to school to show his engineering teacher. But an alarm on the clock went off in English class and his teacher confiscated it. "I told them it's a clock. And they told me, 'Why would you bring a clock to school?' And I was like to tell time. And the officer said, 'There's clocks here, clocks here, clocks around you everywhere.' And I told him that I wanted to impress my teachers so that I could feel appreciated for it, but instead I got the police called on me," he said. Police searched his belongings and removed him from school in handcuffs.