Daniela Berson
WMAL.com

DALLAS — (WMAL) Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old boy who built a clock that was mistaken for a bomb, is leaving the United States for Qatar with his family.

His father told the Dallas Morning News that he was taking the family “where my kids can study and learn,” without fear of persecution.

Mohamed was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to his Texas school.

Administrators at the school thought the clock was a bomb and called police.

The nature of the clock was heavily debated on social media, spurring the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed among the boy’s supporters.

President Obama invited Mohamed to the White House and he visited on Monday.

He will attend school in Qatar on a scholarship offered by a Middle Eastern foundation that promotes education.

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