A senior Trump official publicly framed Obama’s Muslim heritage as disloyalty to America.

Evidence

Flynn reiterated his views in his 2016 book, The Field of Fight: How to Win the Global War against Radical Islam and Its Allies: “We’re in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, most of them inspired by a totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam.” Flynn’s convictions ultimately earned him a place as a White House adviser in the Trump administration. Trump also appointed Mike Pompeo, first as CIA director and then as secretary of state, who stated in 2016 that a “practicing Muslim, who believes in the teachings of the Quran, cannot be a loyal citizen to the United States”— the implication being that only Secular Racial Muslims could be tolerated. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 856 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, right-wing activists accused Barack Obama of being a closet Muslim, a secret Muslim, and a sleeper cell agent. “Once a Muslim, always a Muslim,” declared the conservative political commentator Debbie Schlussel. The proof, critics claimed, was everywhere: Obama’s middle name, Hussein; the fact that he spent some of his childhood in Indonesia, allegedly attending a Muslim school; the fact that his father was Muslim. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1362 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Top officials explicitly framed practicing Muslims as disloyal to the United States. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 856; U.S. anti-Muslim rhetoric framed Muslim identity as a permanent stain disqualifying one from office — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1362; Trump’s campaign statement ‘I think Islam hates us’ and his proposed total shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. constitute vitriolic anti-Muslim rhetoric foregrounded by an unprecedentedly Islamophobic administration. — The Islamophobic Administration

Broader Connections

• Top officials explicitly framed practicing Muslims as disloyal to the United States. #exemplifies (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 856
• U.S. anti-Muslim rhetoric framed Muslim identity as a permanent stain disqualifying one from office #corroborates (0.90) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1362