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Declaring that the time has come to bust “myths created by Hindutva groups” to demonise Muslims, former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi says Islam is not hostile to the concept of family planning and Muslims are the least polygamous among all communities in India
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The Hindu
Declaring that the time has come to bust “myths created by Hindutva groups” to demonise Muslims, former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi says Islam is not hostile to the concept of family planning and Muslims are the least polygamous among all communities in India.
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The Tribune
Nested within that large number of 1.38 billion people who comprise a country called India are other counts reflecting the presence of innumerable communities. From these, two particular sets of numbers need to be disentangled: those of Hindus in India, and those of Muslims. The populations of the two communities have become a source of manufactured anxiety at a mass level. In a profound sense, they have come to define the communally polarised politics of our times.
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The Siasat Daily
In an exclusive interview with Delhi-based news portal Clarion India, the former Chief Election Commissioner talks about his new book that busts myths about Islam and family planning. He says right-wing claims about Muslim population have no basis.
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That India’s Muslims will one day overtake Hindus is one of the most common myths around Muslims and the Population Data. In his new book, former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi uses hard numbers to clinically call out some of most common falsehoods around the high growth rate within the Muslim community.

Muslims have far less access to family planning services than people of other religions, the debate on polygamy is misguided as it is not prevalent in India, literacy rates of girls is directly proportional to lower birthrates and the slogan by some right-wing groups “hum paanch, hamare pachees” is an abomination, says former Chief Election Commissioner Dr S Y Quraishi in this interview with ThePrint’s National Affairs editor Jyoti Malhotra. Dr Quraishi was talking about his book ‘The Population Myth : Islam, family planning and politics in India’ in ThePrint’s #SoftCover​ series in collaboration with Harper Collins India.