Founded in 1970, the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee (IFCGM) is a non-profit interfaith agency through which judicatories collaborate to address the social issues affecting the quality of life in the greater Milwaukee area. These judicatories (or denominations) have among them approximately 500 congregations in the Milwaukee area.  In 2003, representatives of the eleven denominations and faith groups that then made up the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee voted to admit the Islamic Society of Milwaukee to full membership in the Interfaith Conference. The ISM was the first addition in thirty years.

The relationship of the ISM with the IFCGM has regularly been strained as the result of the actions of one group of judicatories who have incorporated blind support of a foreign country into their “religious” mission.  It is difficult to work with groups and individuals who enable, support and justify the actions of a foreign government that has been engaged in decades of occupation and oppression and has, over the past few years, shocked the world with its war crimes, mass murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians (largely women and children), and its use of starvation and denial of water as instruments of war against millions of innocent people.  The ISM believes that interfaith and religious organizations become “morally irrelevant” if they cannot take a principled and moral stance against what most international human rights groups and holocaust and genocide scholars refer to as a genocide.  The fact that some groups continue to support, fund and enable perpetrators of genocide exposes the moral depravity, theological complicity and/or ethno-religious supremacy of such groups.