• Ahmed Mohamed is moving to Qatar
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[quote]Ahmed has accepted a scholarship from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, where he will study. He met US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday. After Ahmed was detained over the clock last month, his case went viral on social media. [/quote] [quote]The Qatar Foundation is providing a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education, according to a news release.[/quote] [quote]"Our family has been overwhelmed by the many offers of support we have received since the unfortunate incident of Ahmed's arrest," the Mohamed family said in the release. "From the White House to Sudan, to Mecca, we have been welcomed by a variety of individuals, businesses and educational institutions." According to his family, Ahmed will be enrolled in the Qatar Foundation's "Young Innovators" program and his whole family will relocate with him to Qatar. "Qatar was a cool place to visit. I loved the city of Doha because it's so modern. I saw so many amazing schools there, many of them campuses of famous American universities," said Ahmed in the news release. "The teachers were great. I think I will learn a lot and have fun too."'[/quote] [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34587285]**SOURCE**[/url] Not going to lie. I'm jealous. Fucking anyone else who gets called out for any level of a bomb threat in school is essentially marked and academically ruined for life. This kid goes the fucking opposite direction from day 1, starting with a presidential visit.
My mother told me about this this morning... Said it was because the kid hates America and wants to go become a terrorist. My mother is incredibly conservative. Congrats to the kid, though. Having a full private education through college paid for is amazing, and this kid's going to go on to do great things later on. I'm sure this won't be the last time we hear about Ahmed Mohamed. Also, Qatar's a cool place to be right now. It's like the UAE, but with fewer human rights violations, less insanely saturated luxury goods outlets, and a much more realistic outlook. Very international and metropolitan, and it's only going to grow as time goes on.
[QUOTE=pentium;48952056][url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34587285]**SOURCE**[/url] Not going to lie. I'm jealous. Fucking anyone else who gets called out for any level of a bomb threat in school is essentially marked and academically ruined for life. This kid goes the fucking opposite direction from day 1, starting with a presidential visit.[/QUOTE] Better him getting a good education and us being jealous than him being a pariah the rest of his life. I hope he understands how lucky hes been though.
All this, and all those people he met, because of.. the clock?
I think the kid got way too much, most he deserved in my opinion was media support and an apology from the school Instead he's heralded as a young inventor and genius, gets to meet the President, numerous television appearences, and now this. I think it's a bit much when your accomplishment is just being a victim
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;48952113]All this, and all those people he met, because of.. the clock?[/QUOTE] Not because of the clock. Because of systematic racism towards middle-easterners that we haven't done anything to prevent, but everything to cause. The media saturation after 9/11 really kind of screwed anyone from those regions living here. I remember a time when middle easterners were considered normal citizens. One of my friends growing up was from Iraq. 2001 was a really bad year for their family, and it only got worse over the next few years. Eventually they moved back, couldn't stand the social isolation and prejudice. I think that's why this incident is really important. It's put that racism in the spotlight. It's an impetus for change. What the kid himself did is insignificant compared to what the situation means overall. It means we're finally recognizing that there is a problem here, and we're talking about that. That's important.
[QUOTE=PrusseLusken;48952162]You people saying Qatar is a nice place obviously haven't been there. I lived there for a year and Qataris are the worst racist shitheads around.[/QUOTE] It depends on where you are. Some of them are quite nice, others are total knobs. Like anywhere, really.
Qatar has this really interesting education district. [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/AAO9gHy.jpg[/img_thumb] A bunch of American universities there, like he said.
[QUOTE=woolio1;48952094] Also, Qatar's a cool place to be right now. It's like the UAE, but with fewer human rights violations, less insanely saturated luxury goods outlets, and a much more realistic outlook. Very international and metropolitan, and it's only going to grow as time goes on.[/QUOTE] You do know that the Qatar government has indirectly killed over a thousand migrant workers who work in near slave labour conditions? [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33019838]Source.[/url]
[QUOTE=woolio1;48952125]Not because of the clock. Because of systematic racism towards middle-easterners that we haven't done anything to prevent, but everything to cause. The media saturation after 9/11 really kind of screwed anyone from those regions living here. I remember a time when middle easterners were considered normal citizens. One of my friends growing up was from Iraq. 2001 was a really bad year for their family, and it only got worse over the next few years. Eventually they moved back, couldn't stand the social isolation and prejudice. I think that's why this incident is really important. It's put that racism in the spotlight. It's an impetus for change. What the kid himself did is insignificant compared to what the situation means overall. It means we're finally recognizing that there is a problem here, and we're talking about that. That's important.[/QUOTE] But at this point, it feels like an over-apologetic gesture. Kid rips out the guts of a clock, puts it into a metal briefcase, gets arrested because "omg terrorist cause he's brown", then gets to meet the big POTUS and gets a free ride through college. I understand the stigma that faces the middle eastern people since the post-911 paranoia started, but doing a 180 and giving away free stuff seems like a petty gesture of goodwill: "Look at us! We're not racist anymore! We swear!"
[QUOTE=The Aussie;48952225]You do know that the Qatar government has indirectly killed over a thousand migrant workers who work in near slave labour conditions? [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33019838]Source.[/url][/QUOTE] All those wonderful, high-rise dotted Arabian cities are built on the backs of dead slaves.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;48952225]You do know that the Qatar government has indirectly killed over a thousand migrant workers who work in near slave labour conditions? [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33019838]Source.[/url][/QUOTE] And it'll kill more thanks to FIFA.
Going to Qatar will hopefully show him that a sketchy homemade clock is nothing to worry about when you are country that still flogs people for drinking. Going to really enlighten his young, gifted mind. Truly the best experience for him.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;48952225]You do know that the Qatar government has indirectly killed over a thousand migrant workers who work in near slave labour conditions? [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33019838]Source.[/url][/QUOTE] Migrant labor is a massive problem not just in the middle east, but all around the world. It stems from countries having uneducated citizens working in manual labor and low-level trades, which drives labor costs down and leaves them prone to exploitation. That said, Qatar's doing a little bit better than the UAE right now, and significantly better than China in terms of deaths per year. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's not as bad as it could be, and they've been working on making things better.
[QUOTE=woolio1;48952094]My mother told me about this this morning... Said it was because the kid hates America and wants to go become a terrorist. My mother is incredibly conservative. Congrats to the kid, though. Having a full private education through college paid for is amazing, and this kid's going to go on to do great things later on. [B]I'm sure this won't be the last time we hear about Ahmed Mohamed[/B]. Also, Qatar's a cool place to be right now. It's like the UAE, but with fewer human rights violations, less insanely saturated luxury goods outlets, and a much more realistic outlook. Very international and metropolitan, and it's only going to grow as time goes on.[/QUOTE] Well yeah... I mean there's a lot of Ahmed Mohamed's out there.
[QUOTE=OvB;48952248]All those wonderful, high-rise dotted Arabian cities are built on the backs of dead slaves.[/QUOTE] And all the Chinese cities, and all the Southeast Asian cities, and a significant amount of the Eastern European cities, and even most cities in the US South. I guess you could count most of England too, if you consider the exploitation of poor and working class Irish people over the past few centuries. Slavery is endemic to the human condition. If it's not outright forced labor, it's conscripted labor, or wage slavery. Whether it's a government, a private landowner, or a corporation doing the enslavement, it's still the same at its core, and it's everywhere.
I wish I could Solder CPU's as good as him.
yknow what i want to be jealous but good for him, straight fucking up sure, he did jack shit, but so did most of us when we were 14. he just got an offer to an education that would have been far better than he would have gotten in the US without paying an exorbitant amount of money(let's be real, US public schools are roughly as helpful as banging your head into a wall). that's another young mind that'll be cultured into an educated being. maybe 20 years down the line his education will lead him somewhere such that he ends up saving other lives. who knows? hate all you want but he's pretty much living the dream for anyone who wants to dabble in the sciences, even if it is a little overdramatic.
seems like a pretty bad idea
[QUOTE=Tudd;48952271]Going to Qatar will hopefully show him that a sketchy homemade clock is nothing to worry about when you are country that still flogs people for drinking. Going to really enlighten his young, gifted mind. Truly the best experience for him.[/QUOTE] also if you're a woman your in-court testimony is worth either 1/2 of a man, or not at all. stoning is still a thing there, if you're gay you'll be executed, apostasy will also earn you an execution, and they still use sharia law.
Holy shit it never ceases to irritate me watching some lucky middle-of-the-road-intelligentish kid get his whole life handed to him for something that any of us could do. Envy is a bitch :v:
[QUOTE=OvB;48952248]All those wonderful, high-rise dotted Arabian cities are built on the backs of dead slaves.[/QUOTE] hey that sounds familiar
Didn't this kid meet the President of Sudan, who's an indicted war criminal? Yeah he's from Sudan, but still.
[QUOTE=OvB;48952248]All those wonderful, high-rise dotted Arabian cities are built on the backs of dead slaves.[/QUOTE] Just like America! Oh they learn so fast...
[QUOTE=Killuah;48952463]Just like America! Oh they learn so fast...[/QUOTE] [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f9/ca/51/f9ca51640eae083208cdf22d2e37a23f.jpg[/img] Yes look at those poor slaves constructing the Empire State Building, get a clue buddy.
[QUOTE=Singo;48952497][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f9/ca/51/f9ca51640eae083208cdf22d2e37a23f.jpg[/img] Yes look at those poor slaves constructing the Empire State Building, get a clue buddy.[/QUOTE] I'm not your buddy, "buddy" and the working conditions were horrible
[QUOTE=Killuah;48952463]Just like America! Oh they learn so fast...[/QUOTE] ignorance 101
Are you telling me the wealth of the US is not built upon the death of millions of slaves?
[QUOTE=Singo;48952497][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f9/ca/51/f9ca51640eae083208cdf22d2e37a23f.jpg[/img] Yes look at those poor slaves constructing the Empire State Building, get a clue buddy.[/QUOTE] You are a fool if you think slavery has not been a large part of Americas history and construction.
[QUOTE=Killuah;48952509]I'm not your buddy, "buddy" and the working conditions were horrible[/QUOTE] Comparing American working conditions in the 1930's to those of Saudi working condtions in the 2000's.
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