President Barack Obama has
voiced his support for the 14-year-old Muslim teenager arrested by police after
taking a homemade clock to school.
As
reports said police from Irving, Texas, had decided they would not charge Ahmed
Mohamed with making a hoax bomb - as his family had been told they might - Mr
Obama invited the teenager to take his clock to the White House.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
also voiced his support for the schoolboy. Engineers from Google, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA also offered their support and a
tour of their facilities.
"Having the
skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest.
The future belongs to people like Ahmed," Mr Zuckerberg wrote on his own
page.
The teenager told The Independent that he had lost hisinnocence after
being detained by police and that he had been made to feel like a criminal. “I
like science, but I look like a threat because of my brown skin," he said.
As outcry over his
arrest grew, people voiced their
support for the youngster on twitter using the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed
The White House
spokesman, Josh Earnest, told reporters that Ahmed had been invited to its
astronomy night next month with NASA astronauts and other young people.
"In this
instance, it's clear that at least some of Ahmed's teachers failed him. That's
too bad,"
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