![]() ![]() Instead, President Obama invited the young charlatan to the White House. I had one just like it in 1980-something.” Or how about, “You didn’t build that!” Maybe Obama should have tweeted, “Nice try, Ahmed. Richard Dawkins - famous evolutionary biologist and atheist - called Ahmed “a fraud.” All he did was take a commercially available digital clock from the 1980s, remove the internal parts from the plastic case, add a few wires - which serve no purpose and do make the whole thing look pretty suspicious - and drop it into a large pencil box that looks like a small briefcase. Several Youtube videos and articles written by electronics experts and enthusiasts compellingly demonstrate that Ahmed didn’t invent anything. When the executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Alia Salem, tweeted a picture of him with the goodies, Microsoft replied, “Enjoy … we can’t wait to see what you create with it all!” After all, he did invent a clock out of circuit boards, transistors, resisters, switches, a display and a small briefcase, right? Microsoft sent Ahmed a few thousand dollars worth of products. He told Good Morning America, “I’ve wanted to be on … and I guess now I have a chance to be on there, only if the entrepreneurs on that show would accept me.” He added that he hopes to hear from the reality show Shark Tank, which gives inventors an opportunity to showcase their inventions and get funded by a panel of successful entrepreneurs. He said he has been offered an internship at Twitter and both Google and Facebook contacted him about opportunities with them. In an interview with Good Morning America, Ahmed said, “This isn’t my first invention and it won’t be my last invention.” He seems proud of his clock and his scientific ability which made it possible for him to create it. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. By mid-week he was receiving gifts and internship offers from corporations and a GoFundMe account was set up to with the goal to raise $60,000 for his tuition to MIT. By the end of the day Ahmed Mohamed was a celebrity with his name and face all over the Internet. ![]()
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