‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar

Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by TallGuyShort on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:04PM (#10422139)

Much of the online commentary I've seen of the aftermath seems to be along the lines of, "See? It was all a stunt!" I expect this will be met with, "See? He IS a terrorist!" Personally, I think the overreaction and resulting media storm have just ruined the kids life. Where can he go and be a normal, if perhaps unusually inclined to STEM, kid? Nowhere in the US, that's for sure.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by thieving_magpie on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:34PM (#10422312)

There's no where in the US this kid can go and pursue an education in a STEM field? You really believe that? Good lord HN is a pool of overreaction.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by TallGuyShort on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:45PM (#10422379)

There's a difference between pursuing an education and being treated normally socially. I mean "ruined his life" is an exaggeration, I'll admit, but it's pretty tough to get this much attention in a controversy and then just leave that all behind. A significant portion of my friends think he's a terrorist, for goodness sakes...

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by notahacker on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:15PM (#10422517)

Socially, I'd think in most parts of the country he can choose between being "hey, check out the funny story behind my 15 mins of fame Ahmed" to his friends, "I too have been a victim of police oppression Ahmed" or just another normal kid with an extremely common Islamic name. I doubt many of your friends that think he's a terrorist would recognise him if he walked past them on the street tomorrow, unless he happened to be carrying a clock.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by thieving_magpie on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:50PM (#10422395)

Yeah, it's a situation that should never have happened. If your friends think he's a terrorist, get new friends. It's one to think his family faked it for attention (which I don't, but it isn't like the father doesn't have a history of attracting attention to himself on purpose), another to just call them terrorists.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by TallGuyShort on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:54PM (#10422411)

Me getting new friends doesn't help Ahmed. The same attitude is all over. That's my point. Huge portions of America think the kid's a terrorist. That's not HN exaggeration. That is literally the words coming off their keyboard. I don't think he stood a chance of a normal life in America.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by thieving_magpie on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:00PM (#10422448)

I guess I can't argue that he'd have a normal life now. I totally don't buy that "huge portions of america think the kid's a terrorist", but we can stop our discussion here.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by xlm1717 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:17PM (#10422215)

He has met with leaders all around the world and gotten the attention of major tech companies. His life is nowhere close to ruined.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by Splines on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:43PM (#10422363)

Just wait a year - the news cycle turns, and this kid will be forgotten.

In 3-4 years when he applies to college, unless the administrators explicitly look his name up, I doubt they would care.

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Re:‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar by huxley on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:42PM (#10422355)

His father emigrated from Sudan, so not so unlikely that someone who is ethnically Sudanese might be invited to visit Sudan and meet the president.

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