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.

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.

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 - 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?'

February 1, 2016 - A Muslim ninth-grader in Texas has been suspended after bringing a homemade clock to school that administrators believed was a bomb, according to a report. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, brought the clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas.

September 16, 2015 - What happens when a 9th grader builds a clock and brings it to school? In the case of 14 year old Ahmed Mohamed, you get arrested. Now, he's invited to the White House and Facebook.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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".