It's okay, we won't judge you. Similar note, my surname is Fahey, which is Irish. For a few years after 9/11 my dad would get pulled aside for screening almost

It's okay, we won't judge you. Similar note, my surname is Fahey, which is Irish. For a few years after 9/11 my dad would get pulled aside for screening almost every time he flew alone. It was basically guaranteed if he was flying one-way. Our guess is that we were getting lumped in with some sort system that assigned higher risk to people with Arabic sounding names. Every Arabic surname I'm aware of begins with Fa[1]. Plus, if you look at it phonetically, both Fahey and the Arabic names ending with i have an ee sound at the end. I've always wondered if that was a coincidence. A computer might not even have been involved, since it never happened flying from Chicago, where most people recognize Fahey as Irish, it only happened flying to Chicago. Of course my dad tends to talk to himself when he is thinking, so who know, maybe he just looked really shifty. [1] Wikipedia list of Arabic surnames as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arabic-language_surnames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arabic-language_surna...