Top officials explicitly framed practicing Muslims as disloyal to the United States.

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s central taxonomy of Racial Muslims, Religious Racial Muslims, and Religious Dissident Racial Muslims developed across earlier chapters. — connects to: A senior Trump official publicly framed Obama’s Muslim heritage as disloyalty to America.