Americans rally outside Mohamed’s school in Texas
Americans have gathered outside a high school in the state of Texas to attend a public prayer in honor of an African American Muslim student who was suspended and handcuffed for bringing his homemade clock to school.
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested on Monday after his clock was inexplicably mistaken for a bomb by a teacher at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas.
On Thursday, a large number of people held a demonstration outside Mohamed’s school and expressed solidarity with him over his ordeal.
They demanded an end to all kinds of discrimination against Muslims and the black people in the United States.
Mohamed’s arrest drew strong criticism against the US police’s “discriminatory” approach towards Muslims and African-Americans.
On Wednesday, Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, invited the teenager to the White House.
“Cool clock, Ahmed,” Obama tweeted about Mohamed. “Want to bring it to the White House?"
“We should inspire more kids like you to like science,” the US president added. “It’s what makes America great.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also expressed his support for the teenager. In addition, engineers from Google, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA extended invitations to Mohamed to visit their facilities.
Police on Wednesday told Mohamed’s family that they had decided they would not charge the boy with making a hoax bomb.
In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, Dr. Randy Short, a member of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization, said the arrest of Mohamed shows the Anglo-American racism against Muslims and people of color in the United States.
“It’s very unfortunate but a predictable trend that you have in America, where [they have] demonized the people who are the other -- the black other, the Muslim other, or the Latino other,” Dr. Short said.
He added that the people who blow bombs and shoot students in American public schools are mostly white male youth.
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