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By Jou Pabalete
‘Cause yes, people, we stand by Ahmed Mohamed.
In case you haven’t heard already, Ahmed is the brilliant 14-year old inventor who took a clock he was making to school. Just a regular cool digital clock, no more, no less— all he wanted was to show it to his teachers. Instead though, he got detained and interrogated by the Irving PD in Texas, on suspicion that the clock was some sort of bomb.
After common sense finally prevailed and folks realized that well, the clock was simply a clock, word of what happened to Ahmed spread and the #IstandwithAhmed trended in support of the young aspiring engineer who simply loved robotics and inventing stuff. From US President Obama, Mark Zuckerberg to Pharrell, Ahmed has received an outpour of support.
Here’s a list of some awesome stuff Muslim inventors, innovators and scientists have contributed to mankind… And Ahmed, we hope to see your invention on this list one day!
The first coffee seeds were discovered in Kaffa, Ethiopia in the 11th Century. There is also evidence showing that it was first roasted and brewed in Mocha, Yemen around the 14th-15th century. By the 16th century, it spread across the Arabian Peninsula, mostly because of the Ottoman empire.
First coffee houses? Well Istanbul technically had the first documented café in 1554 but there are traces of such establishments having been put up in Makkah, Medina, Cairo and Damascus. You’re welcome, Starbucks.