#IStandWithAhmed: schoolboy arrested over homemade clock

'Nerds unite' behind Muslim boy led out of school in handcuffs after invention mistaken for bomb

Ahmed Mohamed

Tweeters and self-confessed "nerds" have rallied in support of a 14-year-old Muslim boy in Texas who was arrested when his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb at school.

Ahmed Mohamed, an aspiring inventor who builds his own radios and Bluetooth speakers, carried his clock to MacArthur High School in Irving in hope of impressing his engineering teacher.

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