Lucknow: Sharp divisions have started emerging within the All India Muslim Personal Law Board over the issue of population control among minorities. The Board firmly maintains that any form of family planning particularly, those amounting to coercive means is against the tenets of Islam. However, a senior vice-president of the Board, Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, is determined to go ahead with his campaign to promote family planning among Muslims. Talking to reporters on Sunday, Maulana Kalbe Sadiq maintained that Islam was not averse to population control. | Especially when it comes to controlling the population of infidel nations. |
He said that it would be in the wider interests of the minorities to adopt practices that would restrict family size. | So that minorities stay that way. |
Maulana Kalbe Sadiq's statement comes barely a week after working committee of the Board had shot down the proposal for population control saying that Islam did not permit any coercive family planning measures. |