Category: Press Release

(WASHINGTON D.C., 7/28/22) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group of Muslim civil society organizations and mosques across the country, today called on The U.S Department of Justice to meet with them to discuss the urgent situation of Asim Ghafoor, a respected American civil rights lawyer, who has been detained in […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 7/16/2022) The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella group for Muslim organizations in the United States, today condemned the United Arab Emirates for kidnapping Virginia attorney Asim Ghafoor and called on the Biden Administration to use every lever of American power to secure his release. Ghafoor was arrested by […]

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 […]

(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 […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 6/15/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella group for Muslim groups in the United States, announced today that more than 300 delegates from 20 states met on Monday and Tuesday with more than 200 elected officials and congressional staffers during the seventh annual “National Muslim Advocacy Day” […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 6/8/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella group for Muslim groups in the United States, utterly condemns the recent public defamation of Prophet Muhammad, on him be peace, and Mother of the Believers Aisha, God be pleased with her, by two high-ranking officers of India’s Hindu extremist governing […]

(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 […]

(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, […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 5/11/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh – clearly marked with a yellow press vest and helmet – by Israeli soldiers while she was covering their military sweep through Jenin […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 5/9/2022) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group for major national, regional, and local American Muslim organizations, strongly condemns the screening of the video “Kashmir Files” at the California state capitol in Sacramento scheduled for Monday, May 9, 2022. The video is being used by the ruling right-wing Hindu […]