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Qatar Foundation gives Clockboy a Scholarship, Discovered to have Terrorist Ties

<p>Ahmed &ldquo&semi;Clockboy&rdquo&semi; Mohammed and his family will be moving to Qatar&comma; where the 14-year-old was awarded a full scholarship&period;&nbsp&semi;Turns out the Qatar Foundation &lpar;QF&rpar;&comma; the charity that offered him the scholarship&comma; may be connected to ISIS&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Did you hear about the Arab kid who gave his teacher a homemade clock and was arrested because the school thought it was a bomb&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ahmed Mohammed ended up in handcuffs last month when the homemade clock he presented to his teacher was mistaken for a bomb&period; His story made international headlines and questions were raised about anti-Muslim bias in schools&period;&nbsp&semi;In addition to the scholarship&comma; the boy received invitations from Google&comma; Facebook&comma; and even the President&period; According to the Qatar Foundation&comma; &ldquo&semi;Ahmed is the latest recipient of a scholarship from the Young Innovators Program which supports young&comma; exceptional Arabs by offering educational opportunities in Qatar&period; The program encourages recipients to follow their aspirations in education while fostering a culture of innovation and creativity&period;&&num;8221&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 14-year-old visited Qatar and Saudi Arabia in early October&period; &ldquo&semi;I was really impressed with everything that Qatar Foundation has to offer and the campuses are really cool&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Mohammed&period; &ldquo&semi;I got to meet other kids who are also really interested in science and technology&period; I think I will learn a lot and also have lots of fun there&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite all the goodwill that resulted from the now-infamous arrest&comma; there is a controversial aspect to Mohammed&rsquo&semi;s story&period; Not only did the kid pose for a picture with Sudan&&num;8217&semi;s president&comma; a man wanted&nbsp&semi;by the International Criminal Court&comma; but QF has a history of hosting&nbsp&semi;radical &ldquo&semi;hate-preachers&rdquo&semi; with traditions of anti-Semitic and anti-American sermons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even worse&comma; QF seems to be connected with ISIS bombings in Saudi Arabia&period;&nbsp&semi;On May 29th&comma; the very same day that an anti-Shia preacher spoke at one of the Foundation&rsquo&semi;s mosques&comma; a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia was targeted by an ISIS suicide bomber&period; Four people were killed&period; A week earlier&comma; a terrorist attack at another Saudi Arabian mosque killed 21 and injured 100&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This isn&rsquo&semi;t the first time a Qatari organization has been suspected of funding terror&period; British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke out against the country&rsquo&semi;s government last December amid suspicions that Qatar was stealing World Cup stadium money to fund terrorism&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The truth is that al-Qaeda has been receiving money from wealthy Qataris for years&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The US has used sanctions in an effort to stop Qataris from supporting terrorism&comma; but it has not been effective&period; Those who initially raised questions about Clockboy and his family were shot down as racist&period; Turns out&comma; they were right&period;&nbsp&semi;If the Mohammed&nbsp&semi;family was suspicious before&comma; they are doubly so now&period; Not only will QF be paying for the boy&&num;8217&semi;s education&comma; it will also be brainwashing him with ISIS ideologies&period; While his family says that Mohammed has nothing to do with radical Islam&comma; their decision to move to Qatar begs to differ&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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