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I have been under the impression, since about 2001, that anyone named Hasan got detained any time they passed through any type of ID checkpoint already.
pretty much everyone with an "Arabic sounding" name gets the "random" SSSS on the boarding pass
Just being brown was enough for me, the only time I’ve flown in my adult life without being pulled aside was, funny enough, when I went to China. I used to travel regularly for work, and it was so regular even my coworkers commented on it to the tsa.
"oh this potential terrorist is going to China? Better let them go and hope they succeed in attacking the Chinese"