Washington DC: The Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM) has expressed its grief over the sad demise of Dr Asghar Ali Engineer who died in Mumbai Tuesday.

"The Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM) conveys the profound sadness felt by a majority of Indian Muslims who live in North America, at the untimely passing away of Dr Asghar Ali Engineer, renowned Indian Muslim scholar, reformer and community leader, in Mumbai", the association said in a statement.

"For many decades now Dr Engineer was continually engaged in a crusade to fight for justice for the suffering Muslims of India, to bring about social reforms in the community, to improve communal harmony between Muslims and other Indians, and to write very meaningful essays on these subjects very frequently in the Indian and International media", it said.

The Association hosted Dr Engineer's lectures in Washington DC during his many visits to USA, starting in 1990 when he was the keynote speaker at the Association's convention.

"His penchant to reform the Muslim society in India to make it more correctly follow the guidance from Quran and Hadith, and to give better equal rights to Muslim women within that context are remarkable achievements that very few Muslim leaders in India can match", the statement said.

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