Category: Press Release

USCMO Also Encourages Biden Administration to Support Democracy Movements in Muslim World Everywhere (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/15/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) today expressed condolences to Turkish-Americans who lost loved ones during the failed 2016 coup in Turkey, which occurred five years ago today. On the evening of July 15th, thousands of Turkish people took to the […]

Delegates from 28 states met virtually with some 150 elected officials, staffers – a digital record-breaker (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/29/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) celebrates the conclusion of the 6th annual “National Muslim Congressional Advocacy Week,” during which more than 550 delegates from 28 states met virtually with some 150 elected officials and […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/28/21) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest coalition of major national, regional, and local Muslim organizations, today sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken calling on the Biden administration and Congress to demand that “the Egyptian government halt its plans to conduct a mass execution of democracy activists, faith leaders, and […]

 Advocacy day policy agenda includes supporting policing reform, protecting voting rights, countering Islamophobia, and advocating human rights abroad, including Palestinian freedom. (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/21/21) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) is announcing the official launch of the 6th annual National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill – this year scheduled to take place virtually […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 6/19/2021) The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group for Muslim organizations, today joined people across America in marking this historic Juneteenth, the first since President Biden and Congress officially declared the commemoration a federal holiday. In a statement, USCMO Secretary-General Oussama Jammal said: “We commend President Biden […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C. – 6/18/2021) The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) is calling on the Biden Administration and congressional leaders to condemn and take concrete action to stop the U.S.-supported Egyptian government’s plan to carry out a mass execution of democracy activists, faith leaders, and other political prisoners in the coming days. In 2018, the […]

Seek help from God and be patient.  Indeed, the earth belongs to God,  and He bequeaths it to whomever He so wills  from among His Servants …  —The Quran, 7:128 (Washington, D.C.; 6/9/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, grieves with the entire global Muslim […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C.; 05/27/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest coalition of major national, regional, and local Muslim organizations and Islamic institutions, formally called on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, prior to his current diplomatic visit to Palestine and the Middle East, to “fulfill the moral duty of this nation” and the […]

And when it is said to them: Do not spread corruption in the earth, they say: On the contrary! It is we who are the ones sowing righteousness! Most assuredly, it is, indeed, they themselves who are the sowers of corruption.  Yet they do not perceive it. —The Quran, Sûrat Al Baqara 2:13   (Washington, […]

They ask you, O Prophet, about the sacred month, about fighting therein. Say: Fighting therein is a great sin. But to bar people from the way of God, and to disbelieve in Him, and to bar them from the Sacred Mosque, and to expel its people from its precincts – all are greater sins in […]