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O humankind! Indeed, We have created all of you from a single male and female. Moreover, We have made you peoples and tribes, so that you may come to know one another. And, indeed, the noblest of you, in the sight of God, is the most God-fearing of you. Indeed, God is all-knowing, all-aware. —The […]

Indeed, to God do we belong, and, indeed, to Him are we returning. —The Quran, 2:156 (Washington, D.C., 02/20/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, mourns the loss of visionary Muslim American political activist and scholar, Agha Saeed, on Friday, 19 February, and offer our […]

(Washington, DC.: 01/20/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest coalition of major national, regional, and local Muslim organizations and Islamic institutions, on behalf of our members and the tens of thousands of Muslim families we serve in our country, and their countless relatives here and abroad – who suffered untold trauma […]

In October of 2020, The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) and several national faith groups submitted a letter to Congress requesting an increase in federal funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) from $90 millions to $360 million which would constitute a fourfold increase over the funding for the program in 2020 to […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/12/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest coalition of major national, regional, and local Muslim organizations and Islamic institutions, today joined 25 other Virginia, state, and national civil rights and faith organizations in a joint letter demanding accountability, equal justice, and the reimagination of public services from the Fairfax County Police […]

(Washington, D.C.; 1/7/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of several leading national and local Muslim organizations and institutions, condemns the insurrection and assault on the United States Capitol by mutinous mobs, deliberately misled for nine unrelenting weeks into sedition and then shamefully goaded today to violence by President Donald J. […]

(Washington, D.C.; 12/26/2020) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest Muslim-American coalition of leading national, regional, and local community institutions, appreciate and welcome the incoming administration’s pledge to support American Muslims by ending the Muslim Ban on day one, including Muslims at every level of government, confronting racial and religious discrimination, and […]

(Washington, D.C., 12/18/2020) — In a press conference hosted yesterday by the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) and Free Uyghur Now, an open letter was read calling on the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to address the genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic minority groups. The letter undersigned by 150 organizations details five actions the OIC must take a stand for justice […]

Dear Community Members, Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. On behalf of the entire US Council of Muslim Organizations, we write to share important news: our member organizations have adopted a unified statement of principles that we will use to guide our political engagement in the months and years ahead, insha’Allah. As you know, Muslim Americans keep […]

Persecution is a far greater sin than killing. Still, they shall never cease fighting you until they turn you away from your religion … — The Quran, 2:217 The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, has studied France’s mushrooming crisis with Islam and Muslims, born out of its […]