The story of a Texas 9th-grader arrested because he had the gall to make a clock and bring it to school to show his teacher has left Americans understandably reeling. But Ahmed Mohamed’s situation is about more than Islamophobia.

September 16, 2015 - Ahmed Mohamed is a ninth-grader in Irving, Texas, who likes to tinker with electronics.

September 18, 2015 - ... Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo at his home in Irving, Texas on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Mohamed was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers on Monday after bringing a homemade clock to school...

Ahmed Mohamed (Fig. 1) is the kind of 9th-grade student science fairs love. He was active in the robotics club in middle school. He knows how to solder. He even built his own digital clock.

October 25, 2021 - Texas ninth grader Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb. Here's what you need to know.

December 1, 2022 - Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth-grader in Irving, Texas is an engineering whiz. For fun, he makes workable gadgets and rudimentary electronics.

September 17, 2015 - Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old at MacArthur High School who is Muslim, told the outlet he's passionate about robotics and decided to link a circuit board, power supply and digital clock display together inside a pencil case.

September 17, 2015 - That’s just about the only place that is not on the itinerary of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas student who made a clock that a teacher feared was a bomb, setting off a series of events that turned the ninth-grader into a social-media symbol of ...

September 16, 2015 - Twitter users are coming to the defense of Ahmed Mohamed, a Muslim teenager in Texas who was arrested earlier this week after a teacher thought the homemade clock he brought to school resembled a bomb.

September 16, 2015 - Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?'

Ahmed Mohamed giving us the peace sign during his ridiculous three-day ...

August 27, 2025 - He contrasted the high level of media coverage for the incident with that of a lesser-reported incident involving the arrest of an eighth-grader for refusing to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt in class. Bill Maher said on his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher that Mohamed deserves an apology but that his clock "looks exactly like a fucking bomb".

Mohamed, who started a model robotics club in middle school, wanted to impress his 9th-grade engineering teacher. So he built a digital clock and brought it to class. The teacher was suitably impressed, but warned the student not to show the ...

June 15, 2016 - I know plenty about the experience of being racially profiled with a name that causes significant suspicion by law enforcement and others in our society. When I learned about the recent experience of 9th grader Ahmed Mohamed being arrested and interrogated by police without his parents present in Irvine, Texas, I was angry and deeply sympathetic.

September 16, 2015 - Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed is an inventor with a knack for electronics. He builds radios, repairs his own go-kart, and experiments with circuit boards in his spare time. Ahmed takes engineering classes as a freshman at MacArthur High School ...

November 25, 2015 - On Monday September 14th 2015 in Irving, Texas, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a Sudanese-Muslim 9th grader of MacArthur High School was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.