USCMO Commends ITKAN Robotics FRC#9128 Team for Advancing to FIRST® World Championship as the First All-Muslim FRC Team in the United States
Dallas, TX.; (4/13/2023)—The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s umbrella group of national, regional, and local Muslim organizations, proudly congratulates the Muslim American Society-Islamic School of Irving (MAS-DFW) and its sponsored ITKAN robotics team. This groundbreaking team has recently made history by advancing to the FIRST® World Championship, thus becoming the first All-Muslim […]
USCMO, American Muslims Support Biden’s Economics, Call for Special Office, Decry Mideast Policy of Tyranny
WASHINGTON, DC (9 Feb 2023)—The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group of Muslim institutions, endorsed President Joseph Biden’s State of the Union report of some much-needed domestic improvements over the divisive and disastrous past administration but disapproved of his discouraging omission of U.S. strategy and involvement abroad, in light of […]
USCMO Calls on Biden Administration to Stop Enabling Racist Israeli Government’s Escalating Abuses
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/31/23) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations and American Muslims today said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s expressions of “ironclad” support for Israel’s far-right apartheid government despite its escalating violence against the Palestinian people unacceptable and called on the Biden Administration to take concrete steps to end the Israeli government’s human […]
USCMO Calls for Systemic Reform After Killing of Tyre Nichols
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/30/23) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations, the largest umbrella group for Muslim organizations in America, again called for systemic law enforcement reform at the local, state, and federal after the police killing of another Black American man, 29-year-old Tyre Nichols. Again, another helpless victim was killed while surrounded by heavily armed men, […]
USCMO Commends Qatar’s Perception-Altering World Cup Presentation as Muslims AND Team Morocco’s Uplifting Da‘wah of the Competitive Excellence, Diverse Unity, and Humble Character Islam Inspires
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/17/2022) On behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) full-heartedly hails the two global heroes of World Cup 2022: The State of Qatar for its Islamically stellar and unprecedentedly visionary accomplishments in winning, organizing, and hosting the very best FIFA tournament by far in the […]
USCMO Hosts First National Muslim Woman Achievement Awards Ceremony
(Washington, D.C.; 9/19/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), held its first annual National Muslim Woman Achievement Awards ceremony in New York City on Sunday 18 September before a, adrenalized audience that cheered its five diverse American awardees and gave thunderous applause to its internationally headlining “Outstanding Humanitarian Award” selectee Emine Erdogan, the […]
USCMO Lauds Albuquerque Law Enforcement, Denounces Heinous Murders, Rejects Divisive Sectarianism
(WASHINGTON D.C., 8/11/22) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group of Muslim civil society organizations and mosques across the country, denounces the potential sectarian motivations for the recent heinous murders of two and possibly four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while we praise the swift, sincere, and exemplary police work […]
USCMO Meet State Dept Officials, Protest US Whitewash of Israeli Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh
WASHINGTON, DC (7 July 2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella for Muslim American organizations, strongly rejects as “unjust, undemocratic, and unacceptable” the U.S. State Department findings on the Israeli killing of Al Jazeera journalist and American citizen Shireen Abu Akleh, issued Monday, July 4th. Council representatives in their recent meeting with […]
USCMO, American Muslims, Support U.S. Bipartisan Gun Control Framework as First Step
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/16/2022) — The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella for Muslim American organizations, supports the bipartisan framework for gun-control legislation reached Sunday by U.S. Senate. While it lacks critically necessary controls on gun buying – an assault weapons ban, expanded background checks, extreme-risk preventions, and age-eligibility increases for purchase – it is […]
USCMO, American Muslims Demand “Concrete Action” After Deadly Uvalde School Shooting
(WASHINGTON, DC – 5/30/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella group for Muslim groups in the United States, today responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas by expressing the American Muslim community’s solidarity with those impacted and encouraging the federal government to stop this national crisis of mass shootings by taking […]