The Killing of George Floyd, White Supremacy, and the Relentless Persecution of Black America.
For persecution is far more grievous than killing …. – The Quran, 2:191 Minneapolis police officers marked Memorial Day by suffocating an utterly subdued black man named George Floyd to death as he pleaded with his last stifled words for the right to breathe. They snuffed out the light of his life with a knee […]
The Courage to Call Out India’s Hindu Chauvinist Persecution of Muslims
Then what is with you that you do not contend … for the utterly helpless among men, women, and children who cry out … —The Quran, 4:75 In the midst of so bleak and bloody a period of anti-Muslim oppression and disenfranchisement underway in India today, with the sanction of its blatantly Hindu chauvinist government […]
The Moral Repugnance of Suspending WHO Funding
And whoever saves a life, it shall be reckoned as though he has saved the life of all humankind. – The Quran, 5:32 A new virus now threatens to become the most lethal contagion the world has suffered in a hundred years – it is the crisis of our lifetimes – and President Trump unilaterally interrupts […]
Arakan Rohingya Union, USCMO, and The European Rohingya Council Call on the International Community to Protect Rohingya Refugee Communities from the COVID-19
(Washington, D.C.; 3/30/2020) – Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), and The European Rohingya Council (ERC) urgently call on the international community to mobilize the government agencies, medical communities, and health care organizations to protect Rohingya refugee communities in South and Southeast Asia during the current global health crisis of COVID-19 pandemic. […]
USCMO Holds Community Leaders’ Coronavirus Crisis Teleconference: Reps. Ilhan Omar and Andre Carson Give Updates
(WASHINGTON, DC, 3/23/2020) —The US Council of Muslim Organizations convened its first National Muslim Leadership Teleconference on the Coronavirus Covid-19 contagion’s impact on the Muslim community on March 21. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Andre Carson (D-IN) participated along with 113 organizational leaders. The two members of Congress detailed the intensive efforts to ensure the then-developing […]
USCMO Honors Gambia Minister for Rohingya Genocide Prosecution. The Gambia Gets $20 Million Medical Help Pledge
(WASHINGTON DC, 6 Mar. 2020) —The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations has conferred its Highest Award of Honor on The Gambia’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General Abubacarr Tambadou. The honor came at a dinner in recognition of his world-surprising, successful prosecution of Myanmar at the United Nations International Court of Justice last December for […]
Statement of USCMO on the Permanent Subjugation of Palestinians Proposed by the Trump-Netanyahu “Deal of the Century”
(Washington, D.C.; 1/31/2020) The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) condemns in the strongest terms possible the farcical plan proposed by impeached President Donald Trump and indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to broker “peace” in the Holy Land through the “piecing” apart of Palestine — both as to its rightful land and the basic […]
USCMO condemns the recent spate of violence and hate crimes against the American Jewish community
(Washington, DC, 12/30/2019) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) expresses its heartfelt solidarity with Jewish community in the face of the alarming rise of anti-Semitism and hate violence in America they now endure; and sends its prayers of condolence and for recovery on behalf of the victims, families, and loved ones of the recent horrific […]
USCMO Statement on The U.S. Reversal of Illegal Status of West Bank Settlements
(Washington D.C., 11/19/2019) — The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) expresses its dismay and abjectly reproves the Trump Administration’s abrupt U-turn against longstanding International Law and consistent and clear United States policy since 1978 of the illegality of Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands in the Occupied West Bank. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s […]
USCMO Meets with President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on India’s Invasion and Lockdown of Kashmir
(Washington D.C., 10/1/2019) — Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan met with USCMO officials in Washington D.C. during his visit to meet US lawmakers, media, and specialists, updating them on the Republic of India’s shocking and internationally illegal massive military occupation and political annexation of Kashmir on August 5, the Day of Eid […]