I think it's more because his name sounds French

Arnaud de Borchgrave, founder of the Moonie Times, has his tidy-whities in a twist about being mistakenly snagged in a no-fly list:

How does one wind up on a terrorist watch list when all you've done in a journalistic career that spanned almost six decades is report on and expose terrorist and other evildoers?
This reporter was tagged as a terrorist suspect as he returned to the United States via Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia from three consecutive trips abroad. Taken aside and questioned as my luggage was carefully checked shirt by short by socks, then on to washbag to unscrew an electric toothbrush and squeeze a little toothpaste out of the tube. My questions were ignored by a grim-faced young woman wearing her most hostile expression.

An appeal to the powers that be at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection elicited verbal apologies. But the Dulles brigade gave me the same treatment two more times before my name could be extracted from batteries of computer systems -- and my reputation recovered.

Of course, when it's OTHER PEOPLE getting snagged, it's a question of national security. But when WINGNUTS are snagged, well, do I smell a lawsuit here?