14-year-old Muslim schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed arrested after taking homemade clock to school

"A teenager has been arrested and could face charges of making a hoax bomb after his teachers thought his homemade clock looked like an explosive device.

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, from Irving, Texas, made the clock - a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display stuffed inside a hologram case – and bought it into school to show his engineering teacher.

Ahmad’s engineering teacher said the clock was “nice” but advised him against showing anyone, the Dallas Morning Newsreported.

It was then confiscated during his English lesson because the alarm kept beeping. He told the outlet that his teacher said: “It looks like a bomb. I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”"