Daniel Pipes: “Westerners welcome harems”

And the best Western politicians can do for those Westerners who frown upon Muslim polygamy is to tell them “find a way to live with it” — you know, be more “open-minded,” “tolerant,” “multi-cultural.”

* Your taxpayer dollars at work:

“Westerners welcome harems,” by Daniel Pipes for the Washington Times, December 7 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): read the comments on Dhimmi Watch too, priceless!

A Scottish judge recently bent the law to benefit a polygamous household. 

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Dangerous liaisons

Is there really any place for polygamy in English law, as a leading Muslim figure recently argued?

Hat tip Weasel Zippers

• Rosa Freedman/guardian.co.uk, 

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Stop Honor Killings!

* When this incident took place, the people in the area were resentful and pressured the police to arrest him as he was known as a habitual killer of his wives.

* Blood Money:   Shahoo Jatoi was ordered to compensate Sher Dil by handing over his three minor daughers. Since Shahoo has only one girl, a 10-year-old daughter, the Jirga decided that the brothers Mr. Miro Jatoi and Mr. Khanan Jatoi should give their daughters of ages between 13 and 11 years to Sher Dil. Besides, it also ordered Shahoo’s family to deliver 20 buffaloes, costing more than 100,000 rupees (around USD 1,400) 

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Netherlands: Imam answers about polygamy

“Is is not obligatory to ask permission from the first wife and it’s not one of the requirements that the first wife gives her permission,” writes the imam to his followers.  “It is recommended that those who wish to marry more women to carefully think it over and to thoroughly study this topic.  This is namely because those who want to marry more women most often just think of their physical satisfaction and not of the other duties that are related to it.”

Fawaz gives the Muslims more advice.  But he doesn’t mention at all the ban on bigamy or polygamy in the Netherlands.  VVD parliament member Henk Kamp responded with much displeasure.  “People can keep the Islamic rules as long as they fit within Dutch law.”

From Islam in Europe

Stricter checks on sham marriages in Netherlands

Foreigners married to Dutch partners can expect additional checks from the IND when renewing their residence permits. The IND recently conducted a pilot scheme in the region of The Hague, after which it reported that 25 percent of all suspect marriages there were indeed marriages of convenience. 

From Expatica

UK sharia courts are “institutions for male domination which treat women like second-class citizens”

More on this story. “Sharia rulings on divorces and disputes to be rubber-stamped by English courts,” by Chris Hastings for the Telegraph,

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Octogenarian polygamist update

“A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah”

More on this story.

“Case of Nigerian man with 86 wives heads to criminal tribunal,” fromAfricasia, link to DW

Kano - Authorities in Nigeria on Tuesday dropped charges of illegal marrying 86 wives slapped on an 84-year-old Islamic cleric after his case was transferred to a criminal court, a court official said. 

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Polygamy

European Cultural Collapse Update: “Netherlands Recognizes Polygamous Muslim Marriages,” from NIS News, August 12 (via DW):

ROTTERDAM, 12/08/08 - Although polygamy is banned in the Netherlands, the marriages of Muslims who have several wives are recognised by Dutch authorities.Registrars in the major cities, in particular, record dozens of bigamous or polygamous marriages per year. These marriages are prohibited and an offence in the Netherlands. However, polygamous marriages that take place in countries where more than one wife is permitted, such as Morocco, are accepted, newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports.

If immigrants with several wives settle in the Netherlands, the local authorities register all the marriages. However, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS), where all marriages are registered nationally, removes these bigamous or polygamous marriages from its files, on the assumption that administrative errors have occurred. As a result, it is not known how common the phenomenon is in the Netherlands.

Amsterdam city council has informed the CBS that the marriages are not a mistake. “We will now investigate whether this can be regarded as a trend that was previously not recognised. If this is the case, it is out task to report this,” CBS researcher Jan Latten explained in NRC Handelsblad.

“At present, it is not included in our statistics,” Latten pointed out. “In the same way, we delete marriages involving fourteen-year-olds. A man with two wives just cannot exist by law.”

Spokesman T. Verhoeven of the Rotterdam city council disclosed that polygamous marriages are registered almost every week. “They are simply acknowledged. It is important for us to check that the documents are authentic and that the husband does not have Dutch nationality.” Otherwise the construction is illegal, Verhoeven explained….