Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta pushes birth control to stem overpopulation
Egypt’s top fatwa authority, Dar al-Ifta, launched on Feb. 17 a hashtag to promote birth control and family planning methods to give a boost to government efforts to control the rapid population growth by providing a religious cover.
In a move aimed at boosting government efforts to curb rapid population growth, Egypt’s top fatwa authority, Dar al-Ifta, launched on Feb. 17 a hashtag to promote birth control and family planning methods among Egyptian families.
The effort came a day after President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi renewed calls for curbing an increasing population that is growing faster than the economy can support.
The fatwa authority says the hashtag, “Birth Control is Permissible,” aims to show that family planning and birth control methods are religiously allowed under religious teachings.
“There is no religious text that bans birth control whether for a necessity or as an improvement,” Dar al-Ifta said in a post on its Facebook page. Most Egyptians believe that birth control methods are religiously banned.
