A Texas teenager who gained national attention after he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school is moving to Qatar with his family to continue his education.
Ahmed
Mohamed has accepted a scholarship from Qatar Foundation for Education,
Science and Community Development, or QF, his family said.
They
thanked all the people and places that reached out in support after the
"unfortunate incident of Ahmed's arrest." The family visited QF this
month.
"Qatar was a cool place to
visit. I loved the city of Doha because it's so modern. I saw so many
amazing schools there, many of them campuses of famous American
universities. The teachers were great. I think I will learn a lot and
have fun, too," Ahmed said in the statement.
In
the hours after his arrest last month, #IStandWithAhmed was trending
worldwide on Twitter, with critics alleging that Ahmed, 14, was the
victim of religious profiling. He is Muslim.
In
an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Ahmed said he was pulled out of
class at MacArthur High School by his principal and five police officers
and taken to a room where he was questioned for about an hour and a
half.
He said he asked the adults if he could call his parents.
"They
told me 'No, you can't call your parents,'" Ahmed said. "'You're in the
middle of an interrogation at the moment.' They asked me a couple of
times, 'Is it a bomb?' and I answered a couple of times, 'It's a
clock.'"
"I felt like I was a criminal," the teenager said. "I felt like I was a terrorist. I felt like all the names I was called."
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