Partnering with Communities to Prevent Violent Extremism in America

Sterling, VA–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2011.  The following remarks are attributed to Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama.

Thank you, Imam Magid, for your very kind introduction and welcome.  I know that President Obama was very grateful that you led the prayer at last summer’s Iftar dinner at the White House—which, as the President noted, is a tradition stretching back more than two centuries to when Thomas Jefferson hosted the first Iftar at the…