"Traveling alone" = half the business travelers at the airport. "Brown" = most of the world. "Explosive residue" = hand lotion or bug spray. "Brief questioning" = 4 hours, ticket canceled, $700 new ticket cost and apartment search.
This is racial profiling, straight up, and ineffective security. How about you go through this and tell me it's all good.
I (of brown skin) was once taken aside INSIDE a jetway, after clearing all security, and quizzed: how much cash was I carrying? Where did I go to school? And this bizarre national origin totem: who won the World Series last year? I'd have had a better chance of telling them what RSA stood for or who Stallman was than baseball.
We probably travel less during Ramadan than usual, since it's kind of inconvenient to do so. Though maybe some people want to spend it with their families like this guy wanted to spend his holy week with his family, but most people would probably travel before Ramadan rather than during IMO.
Take a look at this objectively.
A brown guy, traveling alone, tested positive for explosive residue while going through a TSA checkpoint. After some brief questioning, they determined that there was a 99% chance that he wasn't a terrorist.
How stupid would we as Americans have felt had we allowed someone to fly on the same day as having a 1% chance that he was a terrorist?