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Richard Dawkins Says ‘We Were All Fooled’ by Texas Teen Who Was Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

Outspoken atheist biologist Richard Dawkins took to Twitter Sunday questioning 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s clock “invention” and his motive for creating it.

Mohamed was arrested last week over fears that he had brought a bomb to school. While many, including President Barack Obama, rallied to the Texas teen’s defense, others have defended the authorities’ actions.

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, gestures as he arrives to his family’s home in Irving, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Ahmed was arrested Monday at his school after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. (AP/LM Otero)

Citing a YouTube video posted by Thomas Talbot that says Mohamed didn’t actually invent or build the clock, Dawkins wondered, if this is true, what Mohamed’s motive for bringing the device to school was.

Talbot, in his video, says the device Mohamed put in the metal case was a “commercial alarm clock that you would purchase at any department store and use at your bedside.”

This photo provided by the Irving Police Department shows the homemade clock that Ahmed Mohamed brought to school. Police detained the 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at MacArthur High School decided it looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials. Mohamed’s family said the boy was suspended for three days from the school in the Dallas suburb. (Irving Police via AP)

“All that he did was remove the plastic case from the alarm clock,” Talbot said. “This is not an invention. This is not something that someone built or even assembled and I can show you the difference.”

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