Posted on 03/23/2007 1:16:42 AM PDT by Cincinna
Given the choice between the Duke and the Dolphin, I would always pick the Duke.
This country had damn well better decide who and what the hell it is and decide once and for all that there is no room here for people who are totally unlike us and have completely different value systems.
In Utah, it's polygamy. In Greenwich Village, it's an alternative lifestyle.
IIRC, Islam actually has some constraints on multiple wives (I know, I know). I think Mohammed specifically requires the husband be able to afford each wife having a separate household. But I guess most don't listen after hearing "up to 4 wives".
That has to the scam and the plan. Just like that town of "Travelers" in South Carolina. Their legal names are mostly the same. Lots of John Murphys there. But they have nicknames for each other
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:TanToTK10eUJ:www.travellersrest.org/Controversy990601.htm+Murphy+travellers+scam&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
Equality: Polygamy in Paris
The French government wants to outlaw polygamy to protect the estimated 140,000 people living in polygamous families - but it is tearing apart established families in the process. Edward Stourton reports.
There are an estimated 140,000 people living in France in polygamous families. That extraordinary statistic is a consequence of French immigration and employment policies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
It was a period of industrial unrest in the French public sector, and the government encouraged men from Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Togo to come and clean the streets and empty the dustbins. Many of them came from polygamous cultures, and they brought their families with them.
For years polygamy was tolerated as an necessary oddity, but in 1993, the right wing French politician Charles Pasqua pushed through a law outlawing the institution.
We accept the French for how they are, I would like them to accept the way we live.
Gundu SogounaInitially no one paid it too much attention, but the French authorities are now cracking down hard on what they regard as an affront to women's rights.
Under the legislation polygamous families must split up or lose their livelihoods - men who refuse to "de-cohabit" lose their work permits.
Catastrophic consequences
It means uncertainty and financial hardship for almost all the families involved. Sometimes the consequences for one half of the family can be catastrophic. Gundu Sogouna and her eight children ended up living in a squat in an abandoned building in the suburbs.
"I never thought I would end up living in these conditions," she said. "We accept the French for how they are, I would like them to accept the way we live."
Even more fundamentally, it means the break-up of families who have been living happily according their own cultural beliefs.
I asked one polygamous husband and father, Toumani Dairra, whether he would be willing to divorce. "Never, even if they had a knife and cut off my head - never!"
This began as a story about the right to equality - it became one about a conflict between two sets of rights; the rights of women, and those of minorities.
Why did we let all those people and children in to America in the first place? It was listed that the men were "Islamic scholars". Haven't we had enough problems with such vermin already?
Put your flame suit on. There are a small bunch of sensitive Mittheads on this forum.
Because a civilized nation spits on your sick cult. If you don't like it then stay the hell out of our country.
Meh! Bring 'em on.
If I can deal with the flack from my Rudy bashing I can deal with the Mittheads.....
Why does the article keep calling this African? It's just Muslims. Christian Africans don't do this, do they?
Excellent! You hit the bullseye.
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