US President Barack
Obama has issued a White House invitation to a Muslim schoolboy who was
arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.
Ninth-grade high
school student Ahmed Mohamed from Irving, Texas, was arrested on Monday after
his teachers reported him to the police for making a clock, which they said
resembled a bomb.
The arrest prompted
outrage on social media with thousands expressing their anger at authorities
for arresting a 14-year-old boy over his school project.
Social media users
rallied behind the teen using the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed, which has picked up
more than 500,000 mentions on Twitter so far, according to analytics site
Topsy, and continues to rise rapidly.
The story also ranked
highest on the user-generated curation website, Reddit.
Police have said they
will not charge Mohamed but he told reporters on Wednesday that he remains
suspended from school until Thursday.
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