“I think it certainly really can cause a schism, and schism is exactly what ISIS will look to take advantage of,” Leiter told ABC’s Martha Raddatz, who asked about the effects the burkini ban would have on France…

Leiter said the burkini ban would further alienate Muslims in France.

“Banning the burkini doesn’t produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically disenfranchised in a place like France in many of those neighborhoods, and make them say, ah, ISIS’s message is true and real,” he said.