IRVING, Texas – A Muslim student who was temporarily detained for bringing a clock to school that looked suspiciously like a bomb is now suing several conservative news personalities over the ordeal.

Ahmed Mohamed was detained by officials at MacArthur High School last September after he brought a clock he “built” to school and refused requests from teachers to put it away. Mohamed was questioned about the device by a school resource officer for about an hour and charged with possession of a hoax bomb, though the charges were later dropped.

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Mohamed now wants conservative news outlets and commentators who covered the incident to publicly apologize for scrutinizing his motivations and retract statements made in broadcasts.

“Clock boy,” as he was dubbed by the media, set off allegations of Islamophobia by liberals and Muslim advocates, who claimed Mohamed was targeted because of his religion. President Obama also elevated the incident by sending the teen a message on Twitter that read “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.”

City officials claimed Mohamed and his family refused to allow them to release details about the case that would have changed the public’s perception of what occurred. The teen was ultimately suspended for three days for possessing a prohibited item.

After the fallout, Mohamed took a world tour and was photographed with wanted war criminal and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir before visiting Obama at the White House. Meanwhile, the Center for Security Policy, Glenn Beck, former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro, Fox News and other news organizations investigated and opined on the situation.

Many folks believe the case is an example of “civilization jihad” promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood.

“It’s part of their playbook,” Center for Security Policy’s Jim Hanson told Glenn Beck last year. “And they use that as a way to use the freedoms of a society against it.”

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“They’re doing a great job of it and in this case they basically took a situation that the police handled properly, the school handled properly, and all of a sudden everyone involved is a hater,” he said in an episode that also featured criticisms by Beth Van Duyne, mayor of Irving, Texas – the town where the incident occurred.

Shapiro appeared on Fox news and stated the incident was “a hoax, this was a setup and that President Obama fell for it because it confirms a couple of his pre-stated biases against police and against people who he perceives to be Islamophobic.”

Shapiro also said Mohamed’s story “didn’t hold water from the beginning.

“Within the first forty-eight hours it was clear that this was a bit of a set-up and it was clear that the story didn’t hold together,” he said.

Mohamed likely “took the guts out of an old clock, you can see people do it on YouTube. He literally took the guts out of an old clock, the wiring, and he put it inside of a pencil box and proceeded to bring that into the school and this is not the first family incident that has been like this,” Shapiro said. “His sister had an incident in 2009 that was somewhat similar.”

Mohamed eventually moved to Qatar after receiving a full scholarship to attend a school in Doha, but the boy and his father made a special trip back to Texas during the teen’s summer break this year to file a $15 million federal lawsuit against the city of Irving, the school district, and MacArthur High School Principal Daniel Cummings, EAGnews reports.

That lawsuit is “based upon the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, as well as Title VI,” his attorney, Susan Hutchison, told the media in a big press announcement in August, according to PBS.

On Monday, Mohamed’s father, Mohamed Mohamed, filed a second lawsuit in Dallas County Court against Shapiro, Fox News, Glenn Beck, The Blaze, the Center for Security Policy, Fox Television Stations LLC, Ben Ferguson, and Van Duyne, Daily Wire reports.

The lawsuit demands that the defendants publicly apologize to Clock Boy and retract their previous comments, according to The Huffington Post.