To highlight the disastrous impact of this Trump-ian thinking, I note that a leaked National Security Council (NSC) memo written by then-NSC Director of Strategic Planning Rich Higgins outlined the conspiratorial manner in which the Trump administration believed that Islamists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the fifty-seven-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) were allegedly working together as monolithic Muslim enemies seeking to undermine Donald Trump in an absurd mafia-like manner with no proof offered whatsoever.

QUESTION: What evidence, if any, validated or refuted the memo's claims? How widely was this conspiratorial thinking adopted within the administration?

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 687