USCMO has held several National Emergency Summits of Muslim Leaders throughout the years as part of their mission to bring the Muslim community together to tackle issues of urgent importance.
The purpose of these summits are to address varying urgent topics concerning the American Muslim community and come up with a unilateral strategy to combat and resolve these challenges. In the past some of these topics included:
- discuss the election results and its impact on the Muslim community
- Strategizing and responding to the increasing incidents of religious and racial violence and bigotry in the United States
- Creating and spreading our own positive narrative and refuting ISIS and Islamophobes narrative on Islam and American Muslims; and
- Cooperating and amplifying Muslims’ efforts for political empowerment during the 2016 election
Attendees included over one hundred leaders from 15 states as well as the national leadership of major Muslim organizations. The leadership that represented the political, ethnic, educational and other diversity of the American Muslim community were united in common purpose of service to our community and our country. It is a great gathering of unity, a gathering full of energy and synergy among all participants.
At these summits, major initiatives were developed and implemented such as the One America Campaign, National Open Mosque Day, One Million Voter Registration Drive, and other local and national projects.
