The 14-year-old teen was arrested after bringing his homemade clock to school after his teacher mistaken it as a bomb.
But Dawkins is saying that Ahmed’s invention is not his own creation at all. He further questions the teen’s motive and believes that he intentionally meant to get arrested.
‘He disassembled & reassembled a clock (which is fine) & then claimed it was his “invention” (which is fraud),’ Dawkins wrote on Twitter.
‘If the reassembled components did something more than the original clock, that’s creative. If not, it looks like hoax,’ he added.
Dawkins statement comes three days after Ahmed’s story went viral which brought the teen multiple invitations, including one from President Obama to visit the White House.
The teen has also been showered with tons of gifts from Microsoft and MIT has extended him a scholarship.
But Dawkins is certain that the teen got exactly what he wanted…..to become famous for something that he didn’t create.
Other known figures are also outraged by Ahmed’s alleged stunt. Sarah and Bristol Palin have both publicly criticized Obama for inviting him to the White House.
Love him or hate him, Richard Dawkins is one of the most famous names in science.
The British biologist, well-known for his hardline stance against religion and strong support for atheism and the theory of evolution, is no stranger to controversy.
On Sunday, Dawkins again found himself in a heated debate on social media. This time, however, it had little to do with biology or God, but instead concerned a 14-year-old ‘clock kid’ that seems to have become a household name nearly overnight.
This man seems to know what he’s talking about…If he’s right, Ahmed didn’t build a clock. He simply took one out of its casing. Did he deliberately want to be suspected of making a bomb? Did he want to be arrested, to be seen as a victim of “Islamophobia”? If so, Texas police played right into his hands and most of us (including me) [including Dumbass Obama TM] fell for it.
******* The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil ... but by those who watch them and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein