Principal among "good Muslim" expressions are "denouncing terrorism, supporting the war on terror, and waving the American flag." See also Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (New York: Harmony, 2004), for an anthropological examination of the genesis of the good versus bad Muslim binary and its global application.

XREF: Rooted in Mamdani's anthropological framework of the Cold War-era good/bad Muslim binary; connects to broader discourse on how states categorize loyal citizenship through symbolic acts.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 726