Category: Press Release

O humankind! Indeed, We have created all of you from a single male and female. Moreover, We have made you peoples and tribes, so that you may come to know one another. And, indeed, the noblest of you, in the sight of God, is the most God-fearing of you. Indeed, God is all-knowing, all-aware. —The […]

(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 […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/12/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest coalition of major national, regional, and local Muslim organizations and Islamic institutions, today joined 25 other Virginia, state, and national civil rights and faith organizations in a joint letter demanding accountability, equal justice, and the reimagination of public services from the Fairfax County Police […]

(Washington, D.C.; 12/26/2020) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest Muslim-American coalition of leading national, regional, and local community institutions, appreciate and welcome the incoming administration’s pledge to support American Muslims by ending the Muslim Ban on day one, including Muslims at every level of government, confronting racial and religious discrimination, and […]

(Washington, D.C., 12/18/2020) — In a press conference hosted yesterday by the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) and Free Uyghur Now, an open letter was read calling on the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to address the genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic minority groups. The letter undersigned by 150 organizations details five actions the OIC must take a stand for justice […]

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 […]

(Washington, DC.; October 8, 2020) – In recent weeks, numerous Muslim and Palestinian Americans have expressed concern about reported ties between Emgage and Emgage leaders with anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian groups. Some of the specific concerns expressed to USCMO relate to: Emgage board members participating in the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), an offensive program which seeks to undermine Muslim solidarity with […]

(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 […]

WASHINGTON, DC – 9/5/2020) The US Council of Muslim Organizations, the largest umbrella group for American Muslim organizations, raises concerns over President Trump and VP Joe Biden for their views on democracy in the Muslim world. In a statement, USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal said: “Whoever serves as our nation’s president must not only uphold the best of American […]

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 27 Aug 2020) – A delegation of the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest Muslim-American coalition of leading national and local community institutions, has just returned from its three-day human solidarity visit to the battered people of Lebanon, surveying first hand the indescribable destruction of the horrific August 4 Port of […]