No Middle Eastern Names Please

In a post below I described how the activities of our government are having a chilling effect on normal activities. Here's another example. It appears it's illegal to drive a truck if you have a name that sounds "Middle Eastern." From the Kansas City Star:

SPRINGFIELD — The FBI is investigating a commercial trucking school whose director called authorities because a large number of people taking license tests had names that appeared to be Middle Eastern.

The superintendent of the West Plains public school district, which runs the South Central Career Center Truck Training Program as part of vocational training, said the FBI had told district officials the investigation was focused on people who took the tests for a commercial driver’s license...

The FBI declined to comment except to acknowledge that there was an investigation. Agents exercised a search warrant at the school two weeks ago...

Karla Eslinger, school district superintendent, said the FBI took hard drives and records of people who took commercial driver’s license tests.

She said these are people who walk in to take the test with records showing they completed training elsewhere, not students trained at the school...

About 520 people who did not train at the school took the test there from May 2004 through December 2005. More than 300 of them, or about 60 percent, had names that could be Middle Eastern in origin.

Although the paper doesn't mention it, it appears the school has been forced to close. I have some friends with the following names, do you suppose they will all be blackballed? Ali, Ziad, Fadhel, Maha, Fouad, Adnan, Abdelaziz, ... I could go on.