He explained to the Post how, in Qatar, “not many kids play outside. His clock, which looked like a suitcase bomb, was a strike against the dictum If you see something, say something: after Ahmed’s clock, school officials and others will think twice before committing career suicide by questioning suspicious behavior by Muslims. The piece was executed by a group of New York artists and creatives including Brandon Stosuy, the editor of The Creative Independent, and multimedia artist Matthew Barney. Mohamed misses his friends and was bored of desert’s monotonous landscape. The giant clock perhaps like you is marking the hours until President Donald Trump ’s first term comes to a close. Sure, he’s away from the controversy and getting a good education, but Mohamed says the Middle Eastern country lacks opportunities to build things the way he used to be able to in America. Living in Qatar - which offered him and his siblings a full ride to the Qatar Foundation - isn’t perfect. Is Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed suing the city of Irving and his former school district for 15 million because he was suspended for bringing a homemade clock. His family returned to Irving this summer to sue the city again. That was a year ago, and as documented in a fairly devastating profile by Jessica Contrera in The Washington Post, things have changed for Mohamed. Mohamed’s family unsuccessfully sued the school district for $15 million before moving to Qatar. The 14-year-old was suspended, handcuffed, and arrested, sparking a debate about the role Islamophobia played in the whole incident and drawing responses from Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the United Nations, and President Barack Obama. Trump to Police: ‘Please Dont Be Too Nice’ By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JIn a speech to law enforcement, President Trump urged police not to protect the heads of suspected gang. Since then, he’s become famous (or infamous, depending on who’s talking), moved to a new continent, and no longer feels safe in his home country. ![]() ![]() His teachers thought it was a bomb - or at least a bomb threat. Donald Trump has often framed the fight against COVID-19 in martial terms, but this week he essentially declared that he no longer wanted to be at war, after all. On September 14, 2015, Ahmed Mohamed brought a digital clock he had made to his Irving, Texas, high school.
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