USCMO officially announced its formation on March 12, 2014 at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

[2] In public statements, USCMO has also called for increased transparency in the Freddie Gray investigations in Baltimore.

Additionally, they called on republican presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, to drop an advisor of one of his PACs due to his long history of anti-Muslim activism.

[4] USCMO has condemned acts of violence worldwide including the November 2015 Paris attacks and Charlie Hebdo attacks, Chattanooga killings, Chapel Hill murders, murder of James Foley, and Boko Haram's Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping.

[5] USCMO released a statement on its website that read “The US Council of Muslim Organizations, on behalf of our member institutions and American Muslims, stands in complete solidarity against antisemitism with the Jewish community and condemns the evil, unjust, and unjustifiable hostage-taking of members of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas in the midst of their worship.”[6]