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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stressed at the Countering Violent Extremism summit this morning that "we in the administration and the government should give voice to the plight of Muslims living in this country and the discrimination that they face."
Johnson said he is "personally committed to speak out about the situation that very often people in the Muslim community in this country face; the fact that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and that the Islamic faith is one about peace and brotherhood."
"For our part, we — we ask something of you, of members of the community," he said. "First of all, I've heard over and over again, and this is where we have to depend upon people in the community, that we need to develop the counter-narrative. We've heard that over and over now. And we know that there are a number of those who have undertaken to do this. We need to take that to the next level, developing the counter-narrative."