Post-war American identity structurally excluded Islam as foreign

Evidence

American Muslims were not immune to these historical processes. As Herberg aptly stated at the time, to “profess oneself a Buddhist, a Muslim, or anything but Protestant, Catholic, or Jew, even when one’s Americanness is otherwise beyond question” would “imply being foreign.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 283

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the guiding question: the exclusion of Muslims from the ‘triple melting pot’ is a structural artifact of American national-religious identity, not evidence about Islam itself. — connects to: The going-Muslim trope denies assimilated Muslims any genuine integration into America — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 608; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how this ‘implying foreign’ mechanism of the triple-melting-pot framework persists in debates over Muslim Americanness today.