No Muslim family should engage in birth control: Turkey's Erdogan

[Hans Mann]

No Muslim family should engage in birth control or family planning, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, calling again on pious Muslims to have more children.

"We will multiply our descendants. They talk about population planning, birth control. No Muslim family can have such an approach," he said in a speech in Istanbul broadcast live on television. "Nobody can interfere in God's work. The first duty here belongs to mothers," he said.

Women's groups and opposition politicians have criticized Erdogan, a devout Muslim for telling women how many children to have and dismissing the Western idea of gender equality. He has previously equated birth control with treason.

(Reporting by Daren Butler; Writing by Ece Toksabay; Editing by David Dolan)


Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine Erdogan, greets supporters during a rally to mark the 563rd anniversary of the conquest of the city by Ottoman Turks, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 29, 2016.

Reuters/Murad Sezer

No Muslim family should engage in birth control: Turkey's Erdogan | Reuters

[BaitongBoy]

Propagate the faith...Strength in numbers, and all...

[Maanaam]

He's just copying a very long line of Popes in, as BB said above, a drive to propagate numbers.

[Maanaam]

Crikey, what are those things under their noses? Scrubbing brushes?

[ENT]

That's what it's all about, preparing for world conflict and the coming of their messiah.

Erdogan's a megalomanic, warmongering, crackpot and a fascist.

[sabang]

Bloody Catholics.

[ENT]

Catholic birthrate's dropped.

Islam's got the highest birthrate out of all religious groups, including atheists.

[sabang]

Not in Israel. The haredim are.

Group Population Proportion of total Growth rate
Jews: 6,119,000 75.0% 1.7%
Non-Haredi 5,499 000 65.1% 1.2%
Haredi 750,000 9.9% 5.0%
Arabs 1,688,600 20.7% 2.1%
Other 349,700 4.3% N/A
Total 8,157,300 100% 1.9%

Ain't that good news.

[ENT]

Gotta have that to keep up with the Arab fertility rate there.

[BaitongBoy]

What about camels?...And toes...

[cyrille]

^^Ah yes, they're all bonking because of Mohammed.

[Warwick]

Mohammed had worked out that the younger they were when you married them, the more kids you could get out of them.

[kmart]

Just trying to keep up with the infant mortality rate you get when you refuse to progress or separate religion from affairs of state. Inshallah.

[HermantheGerman]

The FLYNN-EFFEKT

Mate like rats and stay stupid.





...wait.....rats are not stupid

[pseudolus]

Why have those hats got pictures of Dildos on them?

[baldrick]

the more kids you could get out of them

when you are poor and your country lacks many social services you try to have many children

the traditional Malagasy wedding blessing, "May you have seven sons and seven daughters".

[HermantheGerman]

when you are poor and your country lacks many social services you try to have many children

"We will multiply our descendants. They talk about population planning, birth control. No Muslim family can have such an approach."


Stupid me, I thought I can blame the religious fanatics again.