Agha Saeed, American Muslim Pioneer, Political Scholar, Rights Activist Passes Away
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 […]
OVERTURNING TYRANNY WHERE IT BEGAN WITH THE MUSLIM BAN
(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 […]
USCMO Joined National Faith Groups and Asked Congress to Increase Funding for NSGP to Make Faith Communities Safer. Congress Approves $180 Million
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 […]
Trump’s Assault on Democracy
(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. […]
France’s Fanatical Secularism, Persecution of Muslims, and Its Assault on Freedom of Religion, Thought, and Speech
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 […]
USCMO Delegation Meets Erdogan, Fosters Friendship Between US and Turkey
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/7/2020) – A special delegation of the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest Muslim-American coalition of leading national and local community institutions, has returned from a special meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Ankara presidential complex, thanking him for the Turkish people’s rush of pandemic aid to Americans in […]
In the Wake of the Catastrophic Beirut Blast, Our Prayers and Hearts Go Out to the People of Lebanon
And, most surely, We shall test all of you with something of fear and hunger and loss of wealth and life and crops. So give glad tidings to those who are patient – those who when affliction strikes them, say: Indeed, to God do we belong, and, indeed, to Him we are returning. —The Quran, […]
The Mirror of Srebrenica and the Paths Before Us
Today marks 25 years since Serbian militiamen – literally blessed in pre-carnage Masses by their Orthodox priests and bishops – chased down some 8,000 Muslim men and boys through the woods surrounding the UN-declared “safe haven” city of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, slaughtering them without mercy, one-by-one, in cold blood. The soldiers then converged on […]
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 […]
USCMO Protests India’s Unilateral Move on Kashmir and Holds Rally in Support of Kashmiri People
(Washington, D.C., 8/16/2019) – USCMOmembers and supporters of Kashmir’s national and human rights rallied in front of the Indian Embassy, formally protesting the massive military and paramilitary invasion of Kashmir (which began at the stroke of midnight, August 4) with some 700,000 soldiers and irregulars of the ruling BJP Hindu chauvinist party’s parent paramilitary organization RSS […]