Secularized Muslim immigrants become suspect when they oppose US foreign policy

Evidence

Opposition to American foreign policy, especially regarding Muslim-majority countries and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and antiracist domestic activism marks an immigrant Muslim as disloyal. That they are not overtly practicing Muslims (e.g., secularized in lifestyle) assures the government of the unlikeliness of recruitment by Islamic terrorist groups. But their support for Black Lives Matter, undocumented immigrant rights, and Palestinian human rights makes them nefarious Muslims who strategically hide their orthodox religious views as part of an anti-American conspiracy. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 85

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing interest in how religious/ethnic minorities are subjected to loyalty tests — parallels the moral-panic and reputation literature they’ve annotated.
• SEED: An essay angle: how the secularized immigrant who defers assimilation gains tolerance precisely by forfeiting political dissent — the ‘loyalty bargain’ requirement of the US model-minority.