#IStandWithAhmed

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#IStandWithAhmed is a hashtag on Twitter used by supporters of 14-year-old high school student Ahmed Mohamed of Irving, Texas, who became a subject of national interest after he was arrested for bringing a self-assembled digital clock to school in September 2015. Many have speculated that the incident is an example of Islamophobia and racial profiling.

Origin

On September 14th, 2015, 9th grader Ahmed Mohamed brought his homemade electronic clock to school to show to his engineering teacher, who advised Mohamed not to show other instructors the device. After the clock's alarm went off during English class. Mohamed was sent to the school's office where he was arrested by several police officers for "possession of a hoax bomb."

That evening, Twitter user Amneh Jafari posted a tweet^[5] speculating that Mohamed would've been "labeled as a genius" if he had a different name along with the hashtags "#doublestandards" and "#IStandWithAhmed" (shown below). In the next 72 hours, the tweet gained over 1,000 retweets and 690 favorites.

Amneh Jafari @AmnehJafari Follow If his name was John he would be labeled as a genius. Since its Ahmed he's labeled as a "suspect". #doublestandards #IStandWithAhmed RETWEETS FAVORITES 1.004 697 10:11 PM -15 Sep 2015 13

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Within 24 hours of his arrest, an outpouring of support for Mohamed on Twitter caused the #IStandWithAhmed^[3] hashtag to begin trending worldwide.

Farhan Khan Virk @FarhankVirk Follow White kid makes a nuclear reactor? He's a genius. Brown Muslim kid makes a clock? A terrorist #lStandWithAhmed .0000 vodafone UK 09:21 100%-Northwest Dallas County Tweet Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: So you tried to makke a bomb? Youngest person to ever build a nuclear fusion reactor. When you're not Muslim they support you! #1StandWithAhmed RETWEETSFAVORITES 7,280 2,350 10:40 AM 16 Sep 2015 Punjab, Pakistan わ

Nadia Follow @LOMBARDIGNITY DiSqusting how a kid gets accused of 'terrorism' for making a clock but you see some kids like this #lStandWithAhmed RETWEETS FAVORITES 16,185 9,480 12IGE) 11:45 AM- 16 Sep 2015

On September 16th, Mohamed’s two older sisters created the @IStandWithAhmed^[1] Twitter feed. In 48 hours, the account accumulated upwards of 93,000 followers.

TWEETS FOLLOWING FOLLOWERS FAVORITES Follow 45 10 93.3K 21 Tweets Tweets & replies Photos & videos Ahmed Mohamed @lStandWithAhmed istandwithahmed@gmail. com Ahmed Mohamed retweeted Katy Kasmai @KatyKasmai 18h @lstandWithAhmed Hi Ahmed! Would like to fly you to NYC for MakerFaire next week and lunch at Google NYC. Can you make it?) cc @jackhidary Tweet to Ahmed Mohamed

Also on September 16th, Twitter's official @TwitterData^[4] feed released a chart visualizing the hashtag's rapid growth (shown below).

On September 18th, USA Today^[6] published an interview with Amneh Jafari, who explained why she created the hashtag and how she felt about its success on Twitter.

""It's about all the other kids that have been discriminated against in this country – no matter what religion, race. I feel like it also represents them, as well."

According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,^[2] #IStandWithAhmed was tweeted over 1.2 million times within the first 72 hours.

Tweets per day: #IStandWithAhmed August 19th - September 18th 800K 700K 600K 500K 400K 300K 200K 100K 8/22 8/25 8/28 8/31 9/2 9/5 9/8 9/14 AVALTICS BYTOPSY #lStandWit Ahmed 1,210,960

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^[1] Twitter – @IStandWithAhmed

^[2] Topsy – #IStandWithAhmed

^[3] Twitter – #IStandWithAhmed

^[4] Twitter – @TwitterData

^[5] Twitter – @AmnehJafari

^[6] USA Today – Meet woman behind #IStandWithAhmed hashtag

^[7] Twitter – @FarhanKVirk

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Mr. Man

Sep 18, 2015 at 04:21PM EDT

I dont stand with anything. This is the dumbest thing i heard this year.

He slapped a radio clock in a case, hes not Stephen Hawkstein.

And who dafuq thinks that could be a bomb. Too much action movies.

Now the kid is set for life, with NASA INTERNSHIPS THAT PEOPLE STUDY DECADES TO GET.

I just…

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a real penis in the ass

Sep 18, 2015 at 05:19PM EDT

I don't want to be "that one guy" but what I'm confused about is why this is getting so much attention in comparison to all the other shit schools have done that are just as ridiculous. Where are the hashtags for the 6 year old kid who got suspended and had charges filed against him for kissing a girl? Or the boy who got suspended for the pop tart "gun"?

I get it, he's black and muslim but there's literally nothing that makes this case stand out other than the kid is black and muslim. And unlike those two cases, where the kids did pretty much nothing that could be interpreted incorrectly or wrong but the school still fucked up, this kid brought an unknown electronic homemade device to school, which is at least a reasonable cause for alarm.

I see this as being just as irresponsible as any other case of a school doing something completely ridiculous like this. It's pretty clear that race was not involved in the initial incident, and from these other cases with white kids it's pretty clear that schools do horribly moronic shit like this all the time.

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