Category: News

(Washington, D.C., 11/14/2015) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of leading national and local Muslim organizations, strongly condemns the abhorrent terror attacks that took place yesterday in Paris and left over 150 innocent people dead and scores injured. USCMO stands consistent with its position against all forms of violence against innocent people anywhere […]

The US Council of Muslim Organizations strongly condemns the abhorrent terror attacks that took place yesterday in Paris and left over 150 innocent people dead and scores injured. USCMO stands consistent with its position against all forms of violence against innocent people anywhere in Turkey, Beirut, Syria, Paris, and on our soil irrespective of the […]

(Washington, D.C., 7/17/2015) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of leading national and local Muslim organizations, strongly condemns the tragic shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee yesterday which left four Marines dead in an attack on a military recruiting center and another US military site. USCMO offers its sincere condolences to the victims’ families and urges law enforcement […]

(Washington, D.C., 5/1/2015) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of leading national and local Muslim organizations, welcomes the announcement that Maryland State prosecutors have filed homicide and misconduct charges against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. The USCMO stands in solidarity with the family of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore community […]

 (Washington, DC, April 20, 2015) — The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) the largest umbrella group of mainstream Muslim American organizations is aware of the painful history of over 30 nations fighting for over 4 years and the loss of over 37 million lives in World War I, including those of the Armenians. As […]

 (WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/23/15) – An umbrella organization that represents leading American Muslim civil liberties, human rights, faith, and cultural organizations sent a letter today to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Right to Rise PAC requesting that Jordan Sekulow be removed from his position as senior advisor to the PAC because of his long […]

(WASHINGTON DC 02/19/2015) – After attending the two-day Countering Violent Extremism summit at the White House this week, US Council of Muslim Organizations Secretary General Oussama Jammal welcomes remarks by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, which made clear distinctions between violent extremists and Islam. The USCMO is a a coalition of several […]

(WASHINGTON DC 02/11/2015)– The US Council of Muslim Organizations(USCMO), a coalition of several leading national and local Muslim organization, expresses its deepest condolences to the families of Deah Barakat, 23, Yusor Abu-SAlha, 21 and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, who were murdered execution style, by their anti-thiest neighbor Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, in what was […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/7/15) — The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of several leading national and local Muslim organizations, strongly denounces the attack on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a severe and inexcusable infringement on freedom of speech. The shooting attack, allegedly carried out by three gunmen while shouting “God is […]

The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of several leading national and local Muslim organizations, in conjunction with the Fiqh Council of North America, as well as national and local Muslim scholars and leaders came together at the National Press Club news conference in Washington, D.C. to release an open letter addressed to […]