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Ahmed Mohamed Moves to Qatar

by AFP
Mandel Ngan—AFP

Mandel Ngan—AFP

U.S. Muslim teen accused of clock-bomb has gotten a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education.

Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teenager arrested when a Texas teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, is moving to Qatar according to local media, which broke the news a day after Mohamed visited the White House.

The 14-year-old became an overnight sensation after his sister tweeted a photo of the aspiring inventor standing in handcuffs while wearing a t-shirt with the U.S. 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 homemade 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. Invitations poured in from Facebook, Google, the United Nations and in the coming weeks Mohamed tweeted photos of visits to New York, Sudan, Qatar and Mecca.

On Monday night, Mohamed joined a group of students, teachers, scientists, astronauts and celebrities for White House Astronomy Night.

“So happy, I can’t believe that I met the #president of the #unitedstates!!!” he tweeted, in all caps, alongside a photo which showed Obama hugging Mohamed.

Mohamed will join the Qatar Foundation’s Young Innovators Program, which he visited earlier this month.

“Qatar was a cool place to visit,” he said in a statement released to the Dallas Morning News Tuesday. “The teachers were great. I think I will learn a lot and have fun too.”

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