USCMO, American Muslims Condemn Monstrous, Racist Buffalo Mass Shooting and Mourn the Loss of Innocent Lives
(WASHINGTON, DC – 5/16/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, mourns the loss of our ten brothers and sisters senselessly gunned down by an armor-clad white supremacist teen simply because they were African Americans or at a grocery store in a predominantly African American Buffalo, […]
USCMO, American Muslims Call for Peace, Humanitarian Aid, Diplomacy, an End to Russia’s Ukraine Invasion
(WASHINGTON, DC – 2/25/2022) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group for American Muslim organizations, urgently call for an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, restoration of Ukraine’s geographic integrity and sovereign right to self-governance, and a two-pronged resolute global diplomatic push to (1) rush humanitarian aid to the […]
USCMO, American Muslims Mourn the Loss of Bronx Fire Victims, Call for Housing Equity
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/16/2022)- The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, mourns the loss of our brothers and sisters killed in the Bronx apartment fire last week, 15 of whom, including eight children ages 2 to 12, had their mass Janaza funeral prayer today at Masjid-ur-Rahmah mosque. Almost […]
USCMO Condemns Texas Synagogue Hostage Taking, Grateful for Their Rescue Unharmed
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/15/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, stands in complete solidarity against antisemitism with the Jewish community and condemns the evil, unjust, and unjustifiable hostage-taking of members of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas in the midst of their worship. We […]
US Upholding Justice for All Should Be Focus of Biden’s Summit for Democracy
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/10/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) calls on President Joseph Biden to bring US policy and practice in its treatment of Muslim populations at home and abroad and the peoples of predominantly Muslim nations in the world into true alignment with the promises of democracy that his Summit for Democracy seeks to renew […]
House Passing of Biden ‘Build Back Better’ Bill Bodes Historic Changes, Leaves Major Social Safety-Net Gaps
(Washington, D.C., 11/22/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) recognizes the historic importance of the US House of Representatives’ narrow November 19 victory in passing President Joseph Biden’s Build Back Better “human” infrastructure bill – the second part of the president’s crucial infrastructure package to retool the nation and help the American people. […]
President Biden’s Signing into Law of $1.2 Trillion Bipartisan ‘Hard’ Infrastructure Act Important Step for Rebuilding and Jobs
(Washington, D.C., 11/16/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, welcomes President Joseph Biden’s 15 November signing into law of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act as a double win for our nation: (1) It finally delivers a federal investment to rebuild America’s failing transportation, […]
USCMO Remembers the Victims of September 11, 2001, Reflects on 20 Years of Tragedy
For the God of all of you is One God. There is no God but Him, the All-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving. —The Quran, 2:163 (WASHINGTON, DC – 8/1/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations remembers with great sorrow the tragedy of the September 11, 2001 attacks and prays for those impacted by that horrific day here […]
USCMO Supports U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Calls on Afghan Leaders to Pursue Justice and Reconciliation
(WASHINGTON, DC – 8/23/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella group of Muslim organizations, supports President Biden’s decision to withdraw the U.S. military from Afghanistan. USCMO also urges the President and Congress to pull back any American armed forces deployed over the past two decades in the terribly misguided, massively deadly, […]
IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN IS SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT
Imam Jamil Al-Amin laid the foundation for the Black Lives Matter movement and for current National Muslim Organizations; yet, he remains incarcerated in some of the worst prisons in America for a crime he did not commit. He has been far removed from family, given limited access to his legal team, been medically neglected to the extent that he is now blind, had several of […]