Saudi sentenced for six wives
by sheikyermami on February 17, 2010
By ARAB NEWS
He was a member of the muttawa, the religious police*
JEDDAH: A court in Al-Masarha in Jizan region has sentenced a 56-year old Saudi employee of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai’a) to 120 lashes for being married to six wives at the same time, 20 lashes per wife.
He has been ordered to memorize two chapters of the Holy Qur’an. The court also banned him from traveling abroad for five years and delivering sermons or leading prayers in mosques. The accused had claimed he did not know it was against Islamic law to have more than four wives at the same time. He told the judge that he had no education beyond elementary school.
He faced the possibility of being stoned to death, a sentence applied in Islam against married men and women for adultery. Under Sharia rules, a man may marry up to four wives. However, the judge in the case, Sheikh Salman bin Yahya Al-Wadaani, said there was insufficient evidence to apply the Had Al-Zina (the sentence for adultery), according to Al-Watan daily.
The man was charged originally in June 2008 after he was reported for having three Saudi and three Yemeni wives. It also emerged during investigations that two of his Yemeni wives were resident illegally in the Kingdom.
The judge said there would be a separate case against him for marrying foreign women without official consent. No Saudi man or woman wishing to marry a foreigner may do so without approval from the Ministry of Interior.
* “Mutawwa’în” (plural; sing. mutawwa’) originally was a casual synonym for the religious police of Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, the formal short term for the Saudi religious police is هيئة “hay’ah” which is Arabic for “commission” and is a shortened version of “the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices” which serves as the infrastructure of proselytization and enforcement of islamic tenets.
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So four is cool….but six is a possible death sentence? I thought the Qu’ran says to take as many wives as you can afford to keep in comfortable positions. (No word pun intended)
“The accused had claimed he did not know it was against Islamic law to have more than four wives at the same time. He told the judge that he had no education beyond elementary school.”
Obviously education is not a requirement for admission to the muttawa. What a surprise.
This is the traditional muslim defence, ignorance of the law and ignorance of the koran. Why can’t they just castrate the stupid bastrd and make him the bitch of the town. Geepers, they stone and whip women for the slightest infringement of their prehistoric, primitive laws. What a culture to live in and abide by laws which they make up on the run.