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Muslim teen arrested for clock gets White House invite

– Invites flood in –

Zuckerberg may have to wait.

Along with the invitation to astronomy night at the White House next month, Mohamed also got invitations to drive NASA’s Opportunity rover, tour MIT, intern at Twitter and visit Google.

“Hey Ahmed – we’re saving a seat for you at this weekend’s Google Science Fair…want to come? Bring your clock!” the online giant tweeted.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield invited Mohamed to his science variety show, and the Four Seasons hotel responded with an offer of a free room in Toronto.

Mohamed’s family launched a Twitter account to thank his supporters using @IStandWithAhmed as his handle.

“Thank you fellow supporters. We can band together to stop this racial inequality and prevent this from happening again,” read a tweet that included a photo of the smiling boy in his NASA t-shirt holding two fingers up in the sign of victory.

The hashtag #IStandWithAhmed had been tweeted more than 800,000 times by Wednesday afternoon, according to analytics site Topsy.com.

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