A teenager arrested when a teacher thought his homemade clock was a bomb is moving to Qatar, it has been revealed. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, became an overnight sensation and ended up getting all kinds of privileges following the mix-up by his teacher in Texas.
His sister tweeted a picture of him in handcuffs while wearing a t-shirt with the US space agency NASA’s logo last month. His family was overwhelmed by offers to support Mohamed’s education and decided to move to Qatar after receiving a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education, his father told the Dallas Morning News.
The son of Sudanese immigrants who live in a Dallas suburb, the young robotics fan brought in a home-made clock to impress a new teacher at MacArthur High School. Instead, he was accused of trying to scare people with a hoax bomb and escorted from the school in handcuffs.
President Barack Obama joined a surge of public support by congratulating the teen on his skills, in what was seen as a pointed rebuke to school and police officials amid accusations of Islamophobia.
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