Posted on 10/21/2004 2:42:53 PM PDT by milestogo
Vijay Dutt
London, October 21
There always is a way out, it seems, for those who want to keep a harem of "wives" and escape prosecution under anti-bigamy laws. A senior religious figure has been quoted saying almost 4,000 Muslim men in Britain have got as many as four wives. They have taken advantage of a loophole in the anti-bigamy laws.
These men go through nikah
ceremonies and avoid registering their marriage. These marriages, conducted by an Imam, are legal under the Islamic law. But, they are invalid under British law. Such wives have no recourse to the laws here, under which they have rights to their husband's income or share in the family house if the marriage breaks up.
In some extreme cases women brought from abroad, specially from Bangladesh, to marry a British Muslim man have been, according to the Times report, victims of the so-called honour killings by their families after being sent home when the relationship failed.
The situation has become so grim that seniors in the community here are taking step to reduce the number of polygamous relationships. A guideline issued by the Muslim Parliament advises against weddings ratified only through nikah. "No Muslim should seek to contract a marriage without the full protection of the law of the land."
It cautioned that wives were most likely to be harmed, for they would have the status of an unmarried partner under British law, which is forbidden under Islamic laws. So they would have no recourse to either. Worse, the children would be illegitimate.
Mufti Barkatullah, a judge on the Shariah Council was quoted saying that some mosques had clamped down on polygamy by checking that couples wanting to marry were not already legally married. But even then the Council has to deal with 600 applications every year for polygamous marriage.
Dr Ghyasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim Parliament cited the case of a man with five wives. The Home Office clarified that it "remains a criminal offence in the UK for man to contract a second marriage while he is lawfully married to his first wife".
Ah, the "N" word...
Well at least it keeps the feminists quiet...don't hear a peep out of them..
kinda nice for a change....
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You can bet a lot of this goes on in America.
Who would want more than one wife?
Now, more than one GIRLFRIEND might be OK in some circumstances, but multiple WIVES?!@ Uk!
Who would want more than one wife? Now, more than one GIRLFRIEND might be OK in some circumstances, but multiple WIVES?!@ Uk!
When discrimination, the likes of gender and religious apartheid, is illegal, but when you give it another name and call it "ISLAM", it's allowed under the law...
"..Mufti Barkatullah, a judge on the Shariah Council....
....Dr Ghyasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim Parliament.." A look into our future if Kerry is elected president (Sharias and Muslim Parliaments in Britain, coming to a US State near you...) Ain't pretty, is it? Polygamy is coming, anyhow, as soon as 'gay marriage" is legalized, that's the next logical step, then legalizing pedophilia and incest. Anything to destroy the traditional family.
UK Muslims winking at harems in da hood...
Part of the military industrial complex of the enemy, alongside the Islamic "religious schools" and Islamofascist indoctrination... they use the womb as a weapon of mass destruction, breeding a new generation of terrorists.
Who is Lorina Bobbitt?
See not all of Islam is bad. I could go for a harem. I'll have to ask the wife about it and see what she says......
LOL! That's because you're a REAL woman, an American.
But really! What religion is all about the man's penis? It's sick. And what is Allah, the Mighty Pimp in the sky?
Very Good Point.
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