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NUMBERS game ... the Salim family - mum, dad and the 11 children
NUMBERS game ... the Salim family - mum, dad and the 11 children
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Bigger the better for Salim family

Helen Johnson
22/ 5/2008

ROCHDALE’S own super-sized family is set to star in a Channel 4 documentary tonight (Thurs).

Mohammed and Noreen Salim and their 11 children spent four months being followed by cameras for a one-off show about big families called 13 Kids and Wanting More.

The documentary begins the month before the family’s youngest daughter arrived in January this year.

According to Mohammed, producers were keen to focus on the religious reasons behind his enormous brood.

Mohammed was filmed explaining that his large family came about because he doesn’t want, in his words, to ‘Interfere with God’s doing’ by using contraception.

The programme also shows a health visitor warning the couple about the strain being put on Noreen’s body by her numerous pregnancies.

The Salims weren’t the largest family on the show however.

One of the other featured families was about to welcome its 12th member and another couple already had 13 children.

And despite the show’s title, the Salims have yet to beat the record, though if Mohammed gets his way, a baker’s dozen sized brood won’t be far off.

Mohammed said: "I’ve not seen the finished documentary yet, but I think it’s going to be quite positive.

"They mainly wanted to find out what it’s like for us every day coping with lots of children.

"They told us having babies is putting a lot of strain on Noreen, but she’s fine, still just as great as the day I married her."

The show airs on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight.

Mohammed’s days in front of the camera aren’t over just yet.

He is currently filming for a Channel Five show called Seven Deadly Sins.

He will appear on the show which focuses on the sin ‘Sloth’ after revealing earlier this year that the family survive on state benefits.


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   Thanks for proving the point that the system is for more lazy, ungreatfull people like yourself. Our prophet (pbu) has said, time after time god bless's people who earn their living then sit on your back side waiting for hand outs, your a shame to our asian society. You say it's gods will...God has also give knowlege to the doctor who invented the pill, maybe you should think again before opening your mounth again.
Shazad
6/06/2008 at 11:39
   I feel very sorry for this man's poor wife. She is in an abusive relationship and her health and life are at risk becasue this arroragnt idiot wants to make a point about the host country he detests so much. For someone with apparently so much education we saw "Dr Salim" prepared to disgrace his family and town by showing a dirty, slovenly household. Children sleeping in their school uniforms with no bed sheets and crayon grafitti on dirty wallpaper. This was contrasted by the other 2 families in the programme where the fathers worked. Rochdale on the map yet again for all the wrong reasons yet no doubt Dr Salim will rant ad infinitum in the letter page of the Observer with his poisonous words of malice rather than face reality.
G.Harris, Manchester Road, Rochdale
27/05/2008 at 13:10
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