7-year-old Muslim boy treated as terrorist three times in America

A 7-year-old boy who was treated like a terrorist three times after being taken on a trip to Florida as a reward for good grades at school. I understand the need to be wary of terrorists in this day and age, but this is pretty cruel treatment of a child.

Details are as follows.
Seven-year-old Muslim boy stopped in US three times on suspicion of being a terrorist | the Daily Mail

Javail Iqbal, a 7-year-old boy from Blackburn, England, was on holiday to Florida because of his good grades at school. However, when he and his mother tried to board a plane at Manchester Airport, they were stopped because their name was on a watch list. The family had to wait three hours for all security checks to be completed.

Finally, the family arrived in Orlando, Florida, where they enjoyed a vacation that included Disney World. They were on their way to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but their flight was stopped again at the airport. This time, their tickets were canceled by authorities, and they were held up until Javaid could prove his identity.

Javaid's father, an anesthesiologist named Nadeem Iqbal, said, 'My son has been traumatized and he doesn't want to go to the US again.' 'The system should cross-reference names with dates of birth and other information,' he said. He is now considering whether to change his son's name.

The reason Javaid's fate is that a Pakistani man with the same name, Javaid Iqbal, was arrested in New York after the 9/11 attacks. While Javaid was not involved in the terrorist attacks, he was charged with fraud for forging documents and was deported from the United States. For this reason, the name 'Javaid Iqbal' still appears on security systems at airports across the United States.

They moved to the UK from Saudi Arabia in 2002, which may have been a reason for concern.

Common sense would suggest that a 7-year-old boy would be unlikely to commit a suicide bombing, but in America after 9/11, it seems that such naive thinking is no longer acceptable.