US Council of Muslim Organizations Reiterates Support for Palestinian Freedom, Dismisses Attempts to Undermine Muslim Solidarity
(Washington, DC – 8/14/2020) The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the largest umbrella group for American Muslim organizations, today reiterated its full support for the freedom of the Palestinian people, and condemned the latest attempt by President Trump, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates to undermine international Muslim solidarity in the struggle for peace and […]
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, […]
USCMO Lauds the House Passage of the “NO BAN Act”, But America’s Reeking Immigration Law Needs Total Fumigation and Reform
Be ever upright for the sake of God, bearing witness to truth with impartial justice … —The Quran, 5:8 (Washington, D.C., 7/23/2020) The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our members and American Muslims, laud House passage yesterday of the NO BAN Act, “the first civil rights bill in history that explicitly protects […]
USCMO Offers Condolences for the Passing of Rep John Lewis
(Washington, D.C., 7/18/2020) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our members and American Muslims, express our sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of Rep. John Lewis on the passing of this true American civil rights hero, political conscience of the nation, and human rights icon in our world. USCMO lauds […]
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 Killing of George Floyd, White Supremacy, and the Relentless Persecution of Black America.
For persecution is far more grievous than killing …. – The Quran, 2:191 Minneapolis police officers marked Memorial Day by suffocating an utterly subdued black man named George Floyd to death as he pleaded with his last stifled words for the right to breathe. They snuffed out the light of his life with a knee […]
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 […]
The Moral Repugnance of Suspending WHO Funding
And whoever saves a life, it shall be reckoned as though he has saved the life of all humankind. – The Quran, 5:32 A new virus now threatens to become the most lethal contagion the world has suffered in a hundred years – it is the crisis of our lifetimes – and President Trump unilaterally interrupts […]
Arakan Rohingya Union, USCMO, and The European Rohingya Council Call on the International Community to Protect Rohingya Refugee Communities from the COVID-19
(Washington, D.C.; 3/30/2020) – Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), and The European Rohingya Council (ERC) urgently call on the international community to mobilize the government agencies, medical communities, and health care organizations to protect Rohingya refugee communities in South and Southeast Asia during the current global health crisis of COVID-19 pandemic. […]
USCMO Holds Community Leaders’ Coronavirus Crisis Teleconference: Reps. Ilhan Omar and Andre Carson Give Updates
(WASHINGTON, DC, 3/23/2020) —The US Council of Muslim Organizations convened its first National Muslim Leadership Teleconference on the Coronavirus Covid-19 contagion’s impact on the Muslim community on March 21. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Andre Carson (D-IN) participated along with 113 organizational leaders. The two members of Congress detailed the intensive efforts to ensure the then-developing […]