Leaving aside your desire to fondle men’s privates in the name of your national security, what’s the fucking point?
Millions of Muslims travel every day, doubtless hundreds of thousands per day to various American destinations. Over the past ten years, how many of those literal millions have tried something? Ten?
The odds of achieving anything useful in your balls-fondling endeavours are astronomicaly low, and merely waste valuable money that could be spent on proper intelligence gathering, rather than reactive, pointless security theatre.
You remind me of the types who called for banning Irish Catholics from the UK during the Troubles. Just in case.
I’ll take a personal example on the pointless idiocy of your suggestion. I have me a cousin. Works in the City, married himself a nice Muslim girl he met in his financial circles. Ultra secular of course, wears short skirts you know. But to make the Fams happy, he did a little face saving conversion (not that it fooled anyone, as he tells me “Easy enough Cous., I went from being a non-observant Protestant that hadn’t seen the inside of a Church since I was a wee boy when your Mum dragged me there, to being a non-observant Muslim who’s not seen the inside of a mosque since the initial to do.”) - fucker sees more of the inside of a pub now than he did beforehand. Bloody unhealthy, but hey…
So they have themselves a son now, named Ryan. Seems there is a traditional Muslim name which is pretty much the same. And Mum’s name isn’t obviously Muslim either (Miriam, I mean really), nor her maiden name.
So this lad, he grows up, let’s say he gets alienated just like with our Nigerian. Goes from being a non-observant to radicalised. By your scheme, as nothing in an identity document says what his religion is, he gets skipped, walks on a Heathrow flight with lord knows what concoction shoved up his bum, and what the hell, maybe a fake tooth with the detonator or some such… And boomers mate.
Not that I am predicting my wee cousin will follow that track, but it vividly illustrates what utter nonsense your thinking is. Never mind European or American (or African or what not) converts who don’t legally change their names…
Good spywork and undercover people in the right circles, that is what you needed.
Edited to add:
Right Gala, I mean that solution would ban the lad’s Dad who took the extraordinary step of going to the Americans to denounce his own bloody son.
I mean that takes fucking balls. How many parents go so far as to go to a foreign service to denounce their own son as a threat.