Muslim spokesman: As boy departs, Muslims feel 'under siege', The accommodation by the ancestors of a Texas jailbait to move to Qatar is not hasty in ablaze of abiding anti-Muslim affect that makes abounding U.S. followers of Islam feel as if they are "under siege," a agent for a civic Muslim-American accumulation said Wednesday.
The teen, Ahmed Mohamed, attempt to civic bulge endure ages afterwards he was arrested for bringing a bootleg agenda anxiety to academy that a abecedary mistook for a accessible bomb.
On Tuesday, the ancestors appear that they would anon leave their bashful home in the Dallas suburb of Irving and move to Qatar, a affluent oil nation on the Persian Gulf. There, a foundation has offered to pay for Ahmed's top academy and academy apprenticeship in Doha.
Yaser Birjas, imam of the Valley Ranch Islamic Centermost in Irving, said he wishes the 14-year-old able-bodied but worries about the accent that can appear with celebrity.
"I achievement that he does not get afflicted and captivated with that because now the apprehension of him is so high," Birjas said. "And he's just a kid."
Birjas cautioned that humans who move from America to Muslim countries are generally aghast if they ascertain restrictions they never accomplished in the U.S.
"Here in America, you accept abundant added abandon practicing the faith," he said.
For others, the ancestors move to the Middle East sends an adverse message.
Yousuf Fahimuddin, a Muslim announcer in the San Francisco Bay area, believes the family's abandonment will alone bolster the abstraction that Muslims are not loyal to the U.S.
"I don't anticipate affective to Qatar, a country with its own allotment of problems, constructively helps action prejudice," Fahimuddin said in an email.
Instead, he said, "Muslims should try to allotment their accustomed altruism with others to authenticate that they are approved people."
Ibrahim Hooper, agent for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the U.S. has apparent a cogent acceleration in the akin of anti-Muslim affect — animosity he said were reflected by the political attacks of GOP presidential candidates such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
"The Muslim-American association feels beneath annoy by all this," Hooper said.
Ahmed's father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, told The Dallas Morning News that the ancestors was affective "to a abode area my kids can abstraction and apprentice and all of them getting accustomed by that country."
The ancestors said in a account that Ahmed will accept in a affairs offered by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Association Development. He accustomed a abounding scholarship for his accessory and undergraduate education.
The foundation was launched two decades ago to beforehand Qatar's development through apprenticeship and accurate research. The foundation's awning includes outposts of American universities, a business hub advised to advance abstruse addition and cultural projects such as the civic library and a combo orchestra.
American university campuses, which allure both Qataris and adopted students, are amassed in the foundation's Apprenticeship City-limits on the western bend of the basic city-limits of Doha. They cover Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, Northwestern University and Texas A&M University.
Ahmed afresh visited Qatar as allotment of a cyclone ages that included a stop Monday at the White House and an actualization Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol.
The ancestors said in their account that they've been "overwhelmed by the abounding offers of support" back Ahmed's arrest Sept. 14.
The boyhood took the anxiety to his top academy to appearance a teacher, but addition abecedary anticipation it could be a bomb. The academy contacted police, who abandoned the boy and took him to a apprehension center. He was abeyant for three days.
A badge photo of the accessory shows a accustomed case absolute a ambit lath and ability accumulation active to a agenda display. Authorities eventually assured that there was no affirmation the boyhood meant to could cause alarm, and he was not charged. His parents after withdrew him from the school.
Frances King, a acquaintance of the family, said she visited with them Wednesday to say goodbye.
"I anticipate all this publicity they've gotten because of all this ... affectionate of aching them," King said.
On Tuesday, the ancestors appear that they would anon leave their bashful home in the Dallas suburb of Irving and move to Qatar, a affluent oil nation on the Persian Gulf. There, a foundation has offered to pay for Ahmed's top academy and academy apprenticeship in Doha.
Yaser Birjas, imam of the Valley Ranch Islamic Centermost in Irving, said he wishes the 14-year-old able-bodied but worries about the accent that can appear with celebrity.
"I achievement that he does not get afflicted and captivated with that because now the apprehension of him is so high," Birjas said. "And he's just a kid."
Birjas cautioned that humans who move from America to Muslim countries are generally aghast if they ascertain restrictions they never accomplished in the U.S.
"Here in America, you accept abundant added abandon practicing the faith," he said.
For others, the ancestors move to the Middle East sends an adverse message.
Yousuf Fahimuddin, a Muslim announcer in the San Francisco Bay area, believes the family's abandonment will alone bolster the abstraction that Muslims are not loyal to the U.S.
"I don't anticipate affective to Qatar, a country with its own allotment of problems, constructively helps action prejudice," Fahimuddin said in an email.
Instead, he said, "Muslims should try to allotment their accustomed altruism with others to authenticate that they are approved people."
Ibrahim Hooper, agent for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the U.S. has apparent a cogent acceleration in the akin of anti-Muslim affect — animosity he said were reflected by the political attacks of GOP presidential candidates such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
"The Muslim-American association feels beneath annoy by all this," Hooper said.
Ahmed's father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, told The Dallas Morning News that the ancestors was affective "to a abode area my kids can abstraction and apprentice and all of them getting accustomed by that country."
The ancestors said in a account that Ahmed will accept in a affairs offered by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Association Development. He accustomed a abounding scholarship for his accessory and undergraduate education.
The foundation was launched two decades ago to beforehand Qatar's development through apprenticeship and accurate research. The foundation's awning includes outposts of American universities, a business hub advised to advance abstruse addition and cultural projects such as the civic library and a combo orchestra.
American university campuses, which allure both Qataris and adopted students, are amassed in the foundation's Apprenticeship City-limits on the western bend of the basic city-limits of Doha. They cover Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, Northwestern University and Texas A&M University.
Ahmed afresh visited Qatar as allotment of a cyclone ages that included a stop Monday at the White House and an actualization Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol.
The ancestors said in their account that they've been "overwhelmed by the abounding offers of support" back Ahmed's arrest Sept. 14.
The boyhood took the anxiety to his top academy to appearance a teacher, but addition abecedary anticipation it could be a bomb. The academy contacted police, who abandoned the boy and took him to a apprehension center. He was abeyant for three days.
A badge photo of the accessory shows a accustomed case absolute a ambit lath and ability accumulation active to a agenda display. Authorities eventually assured that there was no affirmation the boyhood meant to could cause alarm, and he was not charged. His parents after withdrew him from the school.
Frances King, a acquaintance of the family, said she visited with them Wednesday to say goodbye.
"I anticipate all this publicity they've gotten because of all this ... affectionate of aching them," King said.
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