Posted on 01/29/2016 6:02:36 AM PST by HomerBohn
Polygamy is illegal in the United Kingdom under Section 57 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
But the UK recognizes polygamy if the marriages were in countries where they are legal, i.e., Islamic countries. That means the UK recognizes the polygamous marriages of Muslim immigrants.
And so in 2008, the Blair government gave the go-ahead for husbands with multiple wives to claim extra welfare benefits, so long as the weddings had taken place in countries where polygamy is legal.
As if that isn't bad enough, a new UK welfare reform will further reward polygamous Muslims with even more welfare benefits.
The reform is called Universal Credit, a well-intended effort to reform the UK's broken welfare system where: â—¾More than one in four working-age adults in the UK does not work. â—¾Some 2.6 million people spent at least 5 years on some form of out-of-work benefit. â—¾A fifth of families with children are in poverty at any one time.
Under the new welfare system, additional spouses of polygamous relationships will no longer be recognized. Alas, that new policy has an unintended consequence of actually giving polygamous Muslims even more welfare benefits because those additional wives now can claim welfare as single persons.
Simon Kent reports for Breitbart, Jan. 24, 2016, that at present, a polygamous husband and his first wife receive up to £114.85 in "income support," while each additional wife receives a reduced allowance of about £40 each. But under the new Universal Credit welfare system, by not recognizing polygamous marriages, a man's additional wives will each receive welfare as a single person -- which is higher than what they now get in reduced allowance.
Meanwhile, as Breitbart London reported, last year Britain's first female sharia law judge stated that the "government cannot ask Muslims not to have more than one wife".
At the same time, as reported by the Times newspaper, Britain is experiencing a "surge" in Sharia marriages, as young British Muslims adopt a more hardline religious stance than their parents:
"As many as 100,000 couples are living in such [sharia] marriages, which are not valid under UK law, experts said.... A leading Islamic family lawyer warned that the increase in Sharia ceremonies among the 2.7 million-strong Muslim population in Britain was also behind a growth in 'secret polygamy'."
Attorney Aina Khan, an expert in Islamic family law, said that "Probably a quarter of all couples I see involve polygamy issues. There has been a huge rise in recent years because people can have a secret nikah [Islamic marriage] and no one will know about it."
It has been claimed that Muslim men in Britain are having up to 20 children each because of polygamy and the rise of "religiously-sanctioned gender discrimination" under Sharia Law. Under Universal Credit, there will be more welfare benefits for those children, in addition to existing welfare called Child Benefit:
The Government is committed to providing the financial support less-well-off families need to cover children's living costs. We will therefore include fixed amounts within Universal Credit to provide for these costs. The amounts will be based on those currently provided through Child Tax Credit. They will be additional to Child Benefit.
What all of this points to are the following truths: 1.Immigrants to a country that provides generous welfare benefits will take advantage of the generosity. 2.Countries with welfare attract immigrants from poor countries. 3.Immigration (legal or illegal) therefore is incompatible with welfare. A country that offers both is courting financial ruin.
That is why Europe is flooded by Muslim "refugees" and "migrants". A human tidal wave of 400,000 new migrants will arrive in Italy in coming weeks.
That is also why the United States is invaded by illegal migrants from Mexico and, the latest, from Cuba. At least 7,000 Cuban "refugees" are expected at Texas' Hildago International Bridge in the next coming days.
It’s a standard Ork invasion. When with the NotOrks learn?
The Alienork Way: a cautionary tale for civilized humans facing an Ork invasion
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/01/the-alienork-way/
Maoris, Moors and Migrants: A history lesson for civilized humans facing an Ork invasion
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/01/maoris-moors-and-migrants-a-history-lesson-for-civilized-humans-facing-an-ork-invasion/
Got a link?
When do they start killing Christians? For all practical purposes it will be with the permission of the government.
why is this dated 2019?
if this is sarcasm, please note.
Will this add impetus to the Scotland independence movement? Wales? Cornwall? Will they want to separate themselves from a doomed England?
“Eurasia has always been at war with Oceana.”
In related news, US conversions to Islam in major cities rise 1600%...
Ah, dhimmitude, what a wonderful concept! And I thought the Brits were still just a little proud of their heritage.
Next in line: The United States of America... We’ll find even more innovative ways to pay them to destroy our culture, our system of government - what little remains, and to kill us. The pedophile prophet, Saul Alinsky, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V. Ulyanov/Lenin and their legions of followers are dancing in the fires of hell.
It’s my understanding that the leftist Scottish Nationalist party is even more eager to import vibrant diversity than the UK, or at least just as eager.
Not my country, not my problem, they want to be Euroweenies so I say let them, I just wonder what did the U.S. fight for in the WWII European theater, just to have them become this.
Trump needs to talk about the ongoing euroweenie muzzie nightmare.
Can a regular guy in England have multiple wives?
Not long before that problem comes to our country. Liberals are gonna liberal.
I don’t think a “regular guy” is that crazy
Earlier today I was thinking what would happen to the US if evangelicals suddenly left. The city fathers of Amsterdam tried their best to persuade the group we now know as Pilgrims not to leave, because they knew the good effect there religious people had on their society. It occurred to me that if we left the US, it would quickly become much like the irreligious UK—with all of the consequences secularism bring.
Evangelicals may have no where else to go in this world, but their voice is quickly being silenced in the US, even on this board among so-called conservatives.
Do I understand this correctly. If I as a Mormon took four women to Dubai and married them then when I returned to England we would all be able to draw benefits? Those nice young men on their bikes have a new valuable sales point.
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