Category: Press Release

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/9/22) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations and 58 American Muslim organizations and houses of worship have sent a letter to Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah asking the ministry to consider once again allowing American Muslims pilgrims and others around the world the option of using local travel agencies to book, […]

(WASHINGTON D.C., 8/27/22) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group for major national, regional, and local Muslim American organizations, announced today its inaugural ceremony to honor Muslim Women for their achievements and contributions to community and society. “It is long overdue for the Muslim American community and its leadership to recognize […]

Now, if one in debt has hardship, then let there be respite, until there is ease for the debtor. and should you forgive it as charity, it is best for you, if only you were to know. —The Quran, 2:280 (WASHINGTON D.C., 8/24/22) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group […]

Victims’ families lead community, country in heartwarming call to anti-sectarian unity (Albuquerque, NM; 8/15/2022) – US Council of Muslim Organizations Secretary General Oussama Jammal visited Albuquerque, New Mexico Muslims on Friday, August 12, 2022, to condole the families and community of four murdered Muslims and to give the Friday Address, attended by both Sunnis and Shias […]

(WASHINGTON D.C., 8/11/22) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group of Muslim civil society organizations and mosques across the country, denounces the potential sectarian motivations for the recent heinous murders of two and possibly four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while we praise the swift, sincere, and exemplary police work […]

And when the souls are recoupled with their bodies, and when the female child buried alive is asked for what sin she was killed. —The Quran, 81:7-9 (WASHINGTON D.C., 8/7/22) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group of Muslim civil society organizations and mosques across the country, denounces with utter horror […]

(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 […]