Obama Meets With American Muslim Leaders

Obama Meets With American Muslim Leaders
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Barack Obama meets with a group of 'DREAMers' who have received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in the Oval Office of the White House February 4, 2015 in Washington, DC. DREAMers are children who were brought into the U.S. illegally and were then granted temporary relief under Obama's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Barack Obama meets with a group of 'DREAMers' who have received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in the Oval Office of the White House February 4, 2015 in Washington, DC. DREAMers are children who were brought into the U.S. illegally and were then granted temporary relief under Obama's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

(Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration is reaching out to American Muslim leaders as it tries to stem extremism in the U.S. while heading off a domestic backlash against mainstream Islam over atrocities committed by Islamic State.

About a dozen leaders and other representatives of the U.S. Muslim community met Wednesday behind closed doors with President Barack Obama, a session that some of them had wanted for years. Topics of discussion included anti-Muslim violence, safe-guarding civil rights, countering groups like the Islamic State that try to recruit Americans and an administration summit on violent extremism that’s scheduled for Feb. 18.

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