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In September 2015, Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim Sudanese American high school freshman, was detained by police at school in Irving, Texas, under suspicion of possessing a hoax bomb. He had brought the internals of a commercial digital clock inside a locking pencil box to school to show to his teachers. Mohamed was interrogated, taken into custody by police, handcuffed, transported to a juvenile detention facility, fingerprinted, and his mug shot was taken. He was then released with no charges filed but was suspended from school for three days.

News of the incident went viral on Twitter, and sparked a debate on racial profiling and Islamophobia. Politicians, technology company executives, and media personalities remarked on the incident.

Incident

Photo of Ahmed Mohamed's clock by the Irving Police Department.
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In an interview on Al Jazeera's Ali Velshi on Target, Mohamed said the clock was "built from scrap around the house" and that "some of the boards were already manufactured".[1] He told Larry Wilmore on The Nightly Show that it took him "10 or 20 minutes" to make the clock.[2] According to the initial report in The Dallas Morning News, he had done this "before bed on Sunday. [September 13, 2015]"[3] On Monday morning, September 14, 2015, his father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed "drove his son to school ... and encouraged him to demonstrate his gift for technology."[4]

Mohamed brought the clock to his school, MacArthur High School, because he "wanted to impress all of his teachers".[1] His engineering teacher, upon seeing the clock said, "That's really nice", but advised him to keep the device in his backpack for the rest of the school day.[3] However, Mohamed later plugged it in during his English class, and "set a time" on the clock.[1] When its alarm started beeping, the English teacher requested to see it, and said, "Well, it looks like a bomb. Don't show it to anyone else."[4] In an interview posted on KXAS-TV (NBC 5), Mohamed said he "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."[5] The English teacher confiscated the clock and reported him to the school principal's office, and the police were called. The principal and a police officer then took him out of class and led him to a room where four other officers were waiting.[3] After interrogating him for about an hour and a half, he was taken out of the school in handcuffs and into police custody. Following his arrival at a juvenile detention center, Mohamed was fingerprinted, his mugshot taken, and further questioned before being released to his parents.[6][3][7][8][9][10][11][12] According to Mohamed, he was not allowed to contact his family during the questioning and he was threatened by the principal with being expelled unless he would sign a written statement.[3] After releasing Mohamed, police continued to question his clock's purpose, saying, "He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation."[3][13]

Mohamed was suspended from school for three days.[14] Police determined that he had no malicious intent, and he was not charged with any crime.[15][6] Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said that "the officers pretty quickly determined that they weren't investigating an explosive device", and that Mohammed was arrested over the prospect that it was a "hoax bomb".[16] Under Texas law, it is illegal to possess a "hoax bomb" with an intent to "make another believe that the hoax bomb is an explosive or incendiary device" or to "cause [an] alarm or reaction of any type by an official of a public safety agency or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies."[17]

In interviews after the incident, Mohammed said that when questioned by the school principal if he tried to make a bomb, he responded, "I told them no, I was trying to make a clock."[18] He also said that he tried to make a phone call to his father, but that police told him he could not do that as he was being interrogated.[4] He also questioned the fairness of the situation "because I brought something to school that wasn’t a threat to anyone. I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something and I end up being arrested later that day."[4]

Mohamed's school said he was welcome to return after his suspension, and defended its actions.[19] Police indicated that he was interrogated only in order to clarify his intentions when he brought the clock to school.[6] His supporters have speculated that the questioning and subsequent transfer by police to a juvenile center exemplifies Islamophobia in the United States.[6]

School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver said, "We are never going to take any chances for any of their safety [...] It doesn't matter what child would have brought a suspicious looking item. We still would have taken the same actions." She further said "If the family is willing to give us written permission, we would be happy to share with the public the other side of the story so they can understand the actions we took."[4] Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne defended the actions of the police and the Irving Independent School District, stating that they were following the procedure set when a potential threat of criminal act is discovered.[20] Van Duyne, appearing on Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV, said there was one-sided reporting of the interaction between Mohammed and police, saying that they are unable to release records because Mohammed is a juvenile and his family has refused to allow it. Van Duyne said that from the information she had seen, Mohammed had been "non-responsive" and "passive aggressive" in response to questions from police officers.[21] Van Duyne had attracted questions of Islamophobia earlier in 2015 when she supported a bill which would "prohibit judges from letting agreements reached under foreign laws stand if they would trump someone's rights." Although the bill did not name any particular religion, Muslims in Irving felt that it could interfere with Sharia dispute counseling services offered by local imams.[22][23]

Mohamed family's response

On September 18, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, Ahmed's father, announced that Ahmed will not be returning to MacArthur High School, saying that Ahmed would instead either transfer to a private school or be home-schooled.[24] The family has since withdrawn all of their children from schools in the Irving Independent School District, and the father said the recent events emotionally affected his son, who was not eating well and having trouble sleeping. He said, "It's torn the family and makes us very confused."[25] While many schools have offered to enroll Ahmed, his father said he wants to give the boy some time before making a decision.[25] The family was invited to the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City where, according to the elder Mohamed, UN officials want to meet his son.[25]

The family hired legal counsel "to pursue Ahmed's legal rights and regain his science project from the Irving Police Department".[26] The police issued a statement saying that they had made the clock available shortly after the incident and were awaiting pick-up by "the student's father, or his designated representative."[27]

Reactions

After the initial report in The Dallas Morning News caught his attention, tech blogger Anil Dash created an online form for people to send supportive messages and offer ideas about how to encourage Mohamed. Dash, with more than 500,000 followers on Twitter, was among the earliest to widely publicize the story through social media, and was first to tweet the photo of Mohamed handcuffed, wearing a faded NASA T-shirt. Within hours, the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed began trending on Twitter and Dash had received thousands of responses.[28][29]

President Obama's tweet of support to Ahmed Mohamed

Following the incident, Mohamed received support from President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Mark Zuckerberg. On Obama's Twitter feed, a post said "Cool clock, Ahmed", and asked "Want to bring it to the White House?" continuing "We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great." Zuckerberg invited Mohamed to Facebook headquarters. Mohamed and his family announced that he was going to the White House for its annual Astronomy Night, where he would have the opportunity to meet other aspiring young scientists.[30][31]

Google invited Mohamed to attend its science fair, urging him to bring the clock along; when he arrived he "received a warm welcome, touring the booths and taking pictures with finalists."[32][33] Twitter offered him a chance to intern with them.[34] Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield invited Mohamed to his science show in Toronto.[35] According to social analytics site Topsy, close to a million people sent out tweets with the supportive hashtag #IstandwithAhmed in less than 24 hours.[36]

Responses

In a debate among 2016 Republican presidential candidates, Governor Bobby Jindal said that he did not think that a 14-year-old should ever be arrested for bringing a clock to school but defended the police who were "worried about security and safety issues".[37]

Letter from 29 members of the Congress to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting a full investigation into the arrest of Ahmed Mohamed

Twenty-nine members of the Congress, including Asian-American and Muslim-American members, sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General at the Department of Justice requesting an investigation on "the civil rights violations that took place during the unjust arrest of Ahmed Mohamed". The letter said "Ahmed was denied his civil rights on numerous occasions as he was consistently refused his right to speak with his father. Texas Family Code clearly states 'a child may not be left unattended in a juvenile processing office and is entitled to be accompanied by the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian or by the child's attorney.' (Section 52.025)"[38]

An article on Salon described the incident as a part of a "school to prison" pipeline. It also made comparisons to various instances of white males perpetrating high school shootings.[39]

Wall Street Journal commentator James Taranto said he believes Mohamed's mistreatment is not uncommon; he points to a similar story from 2001 in New Jersey, in which Jason Anagnos, a nine-year-old non-Muslim boy, was arrested, charged and convicted for having brought a fake bomb along on a gifted-and-talented class field trip.[40]

Biologist-author Richard Dawkins accused Mohamed of staging a hoax by referring to the clock as an invention, writing on Twitter and citing a video and blog by Anthony DiPasquale, an engineer working in IT for a Buffalo newspaper, who wrote in his blog that he believed Mohamed's clock to be a "factory-produced clock" originally made by Radio Shack "that was just taken out of its enclosure, and placed in a pencil box",[41][42][43][44] although Dawkins qualified his remarks with "OK, fraudulent claiming of an 'invention' is not heinous".[44] Dawkins further speculated that Mohamed's intention may have been to get arrested, and said "If the reassembled components did something more than the original clock, that's creative. If not, it looks like hoax" and, “You have to ask the question: Why would a boy take a screwdriver to a clock, take the works out, and put it in a box?”[44][45] However, Dawkins also maintained from the beginning that Mohamed should not have been arrested.[46][44][47] Dawkins later said that his concerns stemmed from his impression that Mohamed was claiming to have "invented" the clock, but that "it's possible he doesn't know the meaning of 'invention'".[48] Dawkins has been criticized for labeling Muslims as scientific underachievers, and for referring to Islam as irrevocably violent.[49]

According to a report in Artvoice that analyzed the police released photo of the clock, the device was a Micronta[50] digital clock assembled in a Vaultz Locking Pencil Box[51] An article in Makezine said that they were "charmed by the innocence of the build" and commented that the clock was "less as a combination of miscellaneous parts wired together into a timepiece, and more so as simply the guts of a standard digital alarm clock", and that Mohammed should be proud of his build.[52] Thomas Talbot, an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California,[53] who posted a YouTube video where he discussed a photo of the clock, in which he said Mohamed "never built a clock" but removed the plastic case from a commercial alarm clock and put it into a pencil case.[54] Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano speculated that Mohamed and his parents may have committed a "purposeful hoax" by referring to the clock as an invention, and that electronic experts have said the clock looks similar to a 1980s clock sold by Radio Shack.[55][56] In an interview with Larry Wilmore, Mohammed said that he has built more complicated stuff "like CPUs and soldering them", but that the clock was simple, using some parts that were scrapped off so that it was easier, and put together in 10 or 20 minutes.[2]

Techdirt writer Tim Cushing wrote that the Texas "hoax bomb" law Mohamed was accused under was too loosely worded, as a mere reaction by a public safety official was enough to fall under it (regardless of whether he had intentionally meant to do so), and that it could theoretically apply to other legitimate devices (such as phones and road flares) because they can "cause alarm or reaction of any type" from a public safety officer. At the same time, he wrote that the school itself may have also violated the same law, as they presented the clock to police as potentially being an explosive device.[17]

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that the incident "is a good illustration of how pernicious stereotypes can prevent even good-hearted people who have dedicated their lives to educating young people from doing the good work that they set out to do", and that Ahmed was invited the White House South Lawn for Astronomy Night on October 19.[36][57]

Tweet in support of Mohammed from the NASA Twitter account

Kevin D. Williamson, a correspondent for the conservative magazine National Review, argued that the media was pushing a case for exaggerated Islamophobia, "because it can be used to further a story that the media already want to tell: that the United States is morally corrupt and irredeemably racist; that Muslims are under siege; that white privilege blinds the majority of Americans to the corruption at the heart of everything red, white, and blue", stating we now live in a time of "race-hustling and grievance-mongering." He contrasted the high level of media coverage for the incident with that of a lesser-reported incident involving the arrest of an 8th grader for refusing to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt in class.[58]

Terri Burke, Executive Director of the ACLU of Texas, stated, "Islamophobia, and probably racism, certainly played a role in Ahmed's ordeal, but the fact is overzealous administrators, zero-tolerance policies, and law enforcement officers ill-equipped to deal with schoolchildren have compromised educational environments throughout the country. [...] Ahmed suffered through a terrifying, traumatizing, and unjust ordeal. Yet because of the mass exposure of what he endured, he's received invitations to the White House, Facebook headquarters, and the Google science fair. [...] For too many others – the ones whose stories won't go viral – the possibility of the American nightmare remains too real."[59]

Comedian Bill Maher, who hosts HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, said on the program that Mohamed deserves an apology but that his clock "looks exactly like a fucking bomb." He also suggested that some Muslim adult should tell Mohamed that "maybe one of the reasons why it happened to you is that in our religion we're responsible for 9/11, the Madrid bombing, the London bombing, the Bali discotheque bombings, the Kenya mall...."[60] He continued, "It's not the color of his skin. ... For the last 30 years, it's been one culture that has been blowing shit up over and over again."[61] On the same program, Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban said he had spoken with Mohamed by telephone and that the boy seemed quite comfortable when talking about tinkering with technology, but when that when Cuban asked "Tell me what happened because I'm curious?", he could hear the Mohamed's sister in the background telling him how to answer.[62]

Pakistani comedian Danish Ali created a video in which Muslims thank the world for allowing them to take their unwieldy appliances, like large clocks and panini sandwich presses, with them in public.[63]

George Takei, the Japanese-American actor who played Sulu on Star Trek, wrote an open letter to Mohamed, offering his support and comparing the cause of being taken into custody by police to the same mindset that led to the Japanese internment in the United States during World War II.[64]

Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne said that Irving's police chief and other police officers, as well as teachers and school administrators, were receiving death threats as a result of the controversy.[21]

See also

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