Ahmed Mohamed and Steve Wozniak

: A smart kid named Ahmed Mohamed makes a clock and takes it to school to impress his teachers and instead of getting instantly catapulted to the honour roll, he receives a do-not-pass-Go ticket to the principal office, a police interrogation, a suspension from school and a trip in handcuffs to a detention centre – where he is fingerprinted and further humiliated, according to Globe and Mail. Never mind all the Second Amendment-spouting lunatics prowling U.S. malls and movie theatres – and, yes, schools – with their firearms. So brash in your patriotism and clumsy in your racism. This brainy science geek in the NASA T-shirt – there your real threat, America. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called the ninth-grader a modern-day hero. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone A Dallas newspaper reporter broke the story and social media erupted to save the day – attracting kudos and invitations for the 14-year-old, who is Muslim, from the likes of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and, yes, even U.S. President Barack Obama . Hillary Clinton weighed in, too: Stay curious and keep building, she tweeted. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.