Category: Press Release

(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 […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 4/17/2022) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group for American Muslim organizations, today called on the Biden Administration to condemn and take action to stop the Israeli apartheid government’s ongoing violence against Palestinian worshippers and desecration of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound during the holy month of Ramadan. […]

And they took vengeance against them only because they had believed in One God alone, the Overpowering One, the All-Praised. —The Quran, 85:8 (WASHINGTON, DC – 3/21/2022) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s umbrella group for major national, regional, and local American Muslim organizations, commends President Biden’s administration for Sectary of State Antony Blinken’s […]

“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” — The Quran, 33:59 (WASHINGTON, DC – 3/17/2022) – The U.S. Council […]

(WASHINGTON, DC – 2/27/2022) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest umbrella group for American Muslim organizations, applaud President Joseph Biden’s nomination to the Supreme Court of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. She is a historic choice and will be the first African American […]