Broaching Birth Control With Afghan Mullahs

Source: New York Times

Syed Wasem Massoom, 29, a mullah and one of the trainers, said urban Afghans were looking for ways to have fewer children. Afghanistan was changing, he said, especially its cities, and mullahs had better be thinking about these issues.

“People kept asking us how to have less children,” he said.

Afghan women who work for Marie Stopes, distributing birth control door to door in the country’s capital, have also noticed an interest. An overwhelming majority of people are still skeptical of their motives. (Foreign spies! Christian missionaries who want to reduce the Muslim population!) But a growing number are open to the idea.

“Sometimes they are kind of surprised that this kind of thing exists,” said one of the workers, a woman named Aziza.

In 2009 alone, the sale of birth control pills nearly doubled to 11,000 in September from 6,000 packages in January, according to Marie Stopes figures.

One woman was so happy to have birth control pills that she hugged and kissed Aziza, ripped open a package and swallowed a pill with a gulp of water.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/asia/15mazar.html?_r=2&partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099

Islam is as bad as the Catholic Church when it comes to wanting to keep its "flock" in poverty.

than we are having with our christian priests/pastors/ministers.

Saw on the Joy Behar show last week a group of conservative christian breeders that named themselves 'quiver full'. The guest admitted it is their belief that christians should reproduce as many children as possible to keep their numbers strong. Sick, twisted stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull