The Muslim ban was the first policy targeting Muslims enacted by the man I formally dubbed the "Islamophobia president." … President Trump promised a more hardline domestic surveillance program, which he called Countering Islamic Violence; a registry to keep track of Muslim immigrants within the United States; legislation that would bludgeon the civic and advocacy programs of Muslim American organizations; and other measures that would threaten Muslim immigrants, citizens, and institutions.

XREF: Connects to broader discourse on executive orders, religious profiling, and civil liberties debates during the Trump administration.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 56