Declan Walsh of the New York Times echoed this very point: “The manner in which Mr. Khan was lionized in the American media also aroused discomfort and debate among other American Muslims. Some say it has resurrected the specter of the ‘good Muslim’—the idea, born of the fertile post-2001 era, that Muslim American patriotism can be measured only by the yardstick of terrorism and foreign policy. That raised a question: Did Mr. Khan’s testimony, determined and powerful as it was, show that it takes the death of a son, in a disputed war in a Muslim land, to prove you are a good American?”

XREF: Connects to broader critiques of conditional acceptance of minority groups in US civic nationalism. QUESTION: How does this 'good Muslim' framing parallel model minority narratives faced by other groups?

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 350