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| Afghanistan-Pak-India |
| Clerics reject birth control |
| 2005-10-26 |
| MULTAN: Notable prayer and religious scholars from remote areas around Multan have rejected the offer of honouraria in exchange for the promotion of a population welfare programme on loudspeakers in mosques and for delivering sermons on the merits of birth control by using contraceptives. The proposal was put forth by the Population Welfare Department, but prayer leaders termed it un-Islamic. At a meeting held on Tuesday presided over by Maulana Abdul Majid Nadeem, the Aamli Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nabuwat secretary general, participants said the government wanted to hire prayer leaders for the promotion of un-Islamic culture, and accused the department of promoting sexual corruption, vulgarity and other social evils. They asked the government to abolish the department, as it had no place in an Islamic society. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 And abortion is only permissible if the health of the imam is at risk. I think we have sufficient special forces and hellfire missiles to accomplish that. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2005-10-26 16:01 |
| #4 "Every little sperm is sacred, Every little sperm is great! If a little sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate." - Monty Python |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-10-26 15:34 |
| #3 And abortion is only permissible if the health of the imam is at risk. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-10-26 04:28 |
| #2 I thought they didn't want to lose their demographic kingmaker... |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-10-26 03:51 |
| #1 Among the reasons accepted by the Shariáh as valid for practising reversible contraception are: (A) Physical weakness. (B) Sickness. (C) The wife maintaining her beauty or figure for the sake of her husband. (D) The couple being on a journey or in a distant land. (E) Adverse political conditions, e.g. children are forcibly separated from their parents as is advocated by communism; etc. (F) The couple decide to separate in the near future. (G) The wife is an immoral person. There are valid grounds for practising reversible contraception. Poverty or the fear of poverty are not valid reasons for contraception. It is not permissible to practice contraception on account of a fear of not being able to provide for a large family. Such a fear is an attribute of non-Muslims. |
| Posted by: classer 2005-10-26 02:03 |