London businessman and his THREE wives - up to 20,000 such multi-wife marriages in POLYGAMY BRITAIN

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 9/19/14 | Rebecca Evans

[ruralvoter]

As a bright, eager student at Cambridge University, with one degree already under her belt, Nabilah Phillips could look forward to a successful career and comfortable future.

After completing her engineering PhD she would, perhaps, take up a coveted, highly-paid job in industry, or stay on as an academic lecturing the next generation.

Instead, however, Nabilah, now 35, took an extremely unexpected path.She abandoned her studies, forfeiting her hard-won university place and entered a polygamous marriag e, becoming the second wife of London businessman Hasan Phillips, 32 — who has since acquired a third wife.

Nabilah, her husband and his two other wives are part of a growing number of polygamous marriages taking place in Britain. They are rubber-stamped under Sharia law, which considers polygamy completely legitimate as Muslim men are permitted to take up to four wives.

It is, of course, in complete contradiction to UK law, under which bigamy is illegal and can result in a prison sentence of up to seven years.

But as such marriages are not recognised by English courts — and around 70 to 75 per cent of Muslim weddings go unregistered — those who marry under the system are not subject to prosecution.

As a result, the practice is becoming increasingly commonplace across Britain, with 20,000 polygamous marriages now estimated to have taken place here.

[cloudmountain]

His reply:Go back to? They've never stopped.

Lol. An honest man.

There is SUCH rigorous division of the genders that it's not surprising.

Things are changing there as there is no need for tent-living (TWO sides of the tent, where one gender slept on one side and vice versa) or compound-living, where there are segregated areas and some "couples" areas.
SOME younger couples are enjoying the delight of living on their own, just the two of them.

It's a trend that might actually spread, to the delight of many young couples. I suppose it depends on the growth of towns where these things are feasible.

As the Saudis leave the sheep industry, they might have to have MORE VISIBLE prostitution. THAT would create much public criticism and flak from the rest of the Muslim world.

Who knows? Lol. Who cares?

The Saudi, Muslim and Arab culture is something else, isn't it? It's just TOO different from our western, Christian, American culture, isn't it?

When we were over there we were truly isolated from our Western culture. I used to sign my letters: From the dark side of the moon.

[Jack Hammer]

So... some bright, promising young guy got turned down for a place at Cambridge because the liberated dons wanted to make room for this numbskull?

And how often is the same thing happening in the US...?