Well known British scientist Richard Dawkins has kicked a controversy by comparing Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager whose school project was mistaken for a bomb to an Islamic State killer.
Well known British scientist Richard Dawkins has kicked up a controversy by comparing Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager whose school project was mistaken for a bomb to an Islamic State killer, reports CNN.
Dawkins, who is also a foremost voice in the atheist movement, was tweeting in response to Mohamed's family demanding $15 million in damages and an apology from city and school officials in Irving, Texas for their conduct towards their son. Mohamed was detained, questioned, and taken with handcuffs after a teacher mistook the handmade clock he brought from home for a science project for a bomb.
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"Don't call him 'clock boy' since he never made a clock. Hoax Boy, having hoaxed his way into the White House, now wants $15 nillion in addition!" the renowned evolutionary biologist tweeted.
Dawkins has always claimed that the incident which led to global support for Mohamed on Twitter happened due to a hoax propelled by the school kid himself. He had earlier said that Mohamed did not build a clock, but "took a clock out of its case and put it in a box." He has questioned his motives ever since.
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Dawkins was criticised on Twitter for comparing Mohamed to an ISIS child fighter. He faced a lot of facing brickbats after tweeting the following.
Dawkins who has also been a vocal critic of Islam of faced flak which said that he had anti-Muslim bias for making the comparison. To this he claimed that only the young ages of both kids were being compared and not the religion. He also said that he should have compared Mohamed to the killers of James Bulger. Bulger was a two year-old boy who was murdered by ten year-old in 1993.
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