Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a potential running mate for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, declared that “the Islamic world is an epic failure” and alleged that his bluntness about the threat of terrorism cost him his job in the Obama administration.

“We have failed to challenge their jihadist doctrines, even though their true believers only number a small fraction of the Muslim world, and even though everybody, above all most living Muslims, knows that the Islamic world is an epic failure, desperately needing economic, cultural and educational reform of the sort that has led to the superiority of the West,” Flynn wrote in an op-ed for the New York Post.