On May 25, 2020 much of the world was riveted watching the slow agonizing death of George Floyd as he was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Darnella …
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Assalamu Alaikum, On behalf of the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), we write to you with heavy hearts during these final days of the holy month of Ramadan. Our …
Structural Racism
The life stories of generations of people of African descent in the United States are testimonials to the capacity of human beings to overcome, with Allah’s help, adverse life circumstances …
Beyond the 2020 Elections: What’s Next for Muslim Americans
The 2020 U.S. presidential election has often been described in hyperbolic terms by journalists, political hacks, and social commentators as being the “most important election in the history of the …
Can America Survive Four More Years of Donald Trump?
A relatively late entrant as a candidate for the Republican Party’s 2016 nominee for president, Donald Trump officially announced his candidacy on June 15, 2015, joining a field that eventually …
‘Daddy Changed the World’
Some words and images are indelibly etched into the recesses of our minds. Such is the case of George Floyd’s six-year-old daughter Gianna sitting on the shoulders of her father’s …
The Help of Allah Is Always Near
For over three decades, Muslims worldwide have suffered from increasing terrorist assaults by individuals and various agencies of states. Muslim-majority nations such as Iraq, Libya, and Syria that were once …
Datos breves sobre los latinos musulmanes
Desde el 15 de septiembre hasta el 15 de octubre de 2019 se celebró el trigésimo mes de la herencia hispana en los Estados Unidos, una conmemoración de un mes …
Women and the Future of the United States
There has been perhaps no more celebrated an icon of immigrants’ dreams and aspirations of freedom than the Statue of Liberty. Crafted by the French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and …
Walking the Red Path in Islam
Anthropologists and archaeologists are generally unified in their view that Native Americans (Red Indians) were the original inhabitants of the Western hemisphere. The ancestors of modern-day Native Americans are uniformly …