mumbai muslims especially those who have small families reacted sharply to shiv senas remarks that prime minister narendra modi should ensure that muslims accept the necessity of family planning they slammed the senas slanderous and provocative remarks in its mouthpiece saamna on monday which asked the sangh to pressure the government to strictly impose family planning educated muslims know the benefits of small families they dont need sermons from shiv sena on family planning educated muslims plan their families carefully and dont go for many children said noor ahmed owner of the popular colababased eatery baghdadi who has two sonstaufique 30 and moiz 24 while taufique has graduated in hotel management moiz is an it professional i studied till just ssc as i had to run my fathers business but my wife and i decided to keep our family small and provide the best education that we could afford to our children said ahmed as education deepens among the community and economic condition improves muslims have realized the importance of family planning when our son asjad was born five years ago we felt blessed my wife and i decided that he would be our only child we didnt need any lecturing to understand how a small family is financially and physically healthy the emphasis should be on creating awareness and improving peoples educational and economic condition not making divisive statements said real estate consultant asad shaikh from mira road his wife kehkashan added as i have one child i can tutor him myself this was our own decision because of our education and knowledge and not due to politicians pressure mechanical engineer from bandra mahmood khan 65has two daughtersone is a brand manager in a pharmaceutical firm while the other is employed with a multinational why is the sena targeting muslims when population is a problem with every section which is poor and illiterate sena should pull up mahants yogis and sadhvis who exhort hindus to produce many children to counter muslim population muslims are not overtaking hindus as sena would like us to believe he said senior executive with an mnc muzaffar kalimullah who has two kids said the sena should desist from making inflammatory statements the parivar has often accused muslims of practising polygamy the accusation is wrong the community prefers monogamy and and most muslims want to keep their families small