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7 Kids Not Named Mohamed Who Brought Homemade Clocks to School And Didn't Get Arrested
http://gawker.com/7-kids-not-named-mohamed-who-brought-homemade-clocks-to-1730999866<snip>
A Muslim teenager who built a clock for a class project won a prize he really didn’t want:
Why? Could it have something to do with Ahmed Mohamed’s name, or the color of his skin? His father thinks so. “He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”
Mohamed’s father might be right. Below are seven students, not named Mohamed, who got off scot-free for the heinous crime of DIY timekeeping, plus a bonus kid who brought an actual inert bomb to school and wasn’t suspended. (Mohamed got three days.)
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