Some lawmakers equated devout Muslim practice with waging war on the United States

Evidence

The drive to outlaw sharia was supported widely by many lawmakers. In 2011, Republican Tennessee state legislator Rick Wormick opined that any Muslim who is devout and follows the Qur’an and Sunnah is at war with the United States and required to kill non-Muslims. Therefore, they should be categorically barred from serving in the military. In 2016, the Tennessee Republican Party invited controversial anti-Islam activist Geert Wilders to the Republican National Convention. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 285 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The suppression of politically engaged, critical American Islamic voices is a long tradition. The disciplining of Muslim American politics has been a critical component of US statecraft for decades. In an era in which the government negotiates with, occupies, makes peace, and wages war against more Muslims than ever before, there is little reason to hope that state Islamophobia will end any time soon. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 424 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: U.S. lawmakers framed devout Muslim practice as treasonous grounds for military exclusion — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 285; Performing Americanness forces Muslims to downplay or conceal their faith — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 343; Lawmakers distinguished individual Muslims from Islam itself as the incompatibility target (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• U.S. lawmakers framed devout Muslim practice as treasonous grounds for military exclusion #corroborates (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 285
• Lawmakers distinguished individual Muslims from Islam itself as the incompatibility target #qualifies (0.82)
• US statecraft has long disciplined Muslim American political dissent #expands (0.80) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 424
• Performing Americanness forces Muslims to downplay or conceal their faith #expands (0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 343
• The more religious a Muslim appears, the less American they are perceived to be #expands (0.76) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 450
• Islamophobia spans the American political spectrum. #expands (0.74) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 361