One of my good friends and a devout muslim has just had this discussion with her husband. It is of course, acceptable within the law of Islam for a man to take more than one wife if he can provide for them equally. Just so he was quite certain of where she stood on this issue she has told him
"If you so much as touch another woman I will snap your hand off and shove it up your ar$e"
We are not all good at sharing. I tend to think like my friend.
I have a Muslim male friend who told me how most people in the west did not know that a muslim man must have permission from current wife/ves before he could marry another one. Well, I had to explain to him that I was born and grew up in a muslim country. And he was right, the man did have to get permission from the current spouse(s) before marrying another one, usually a much younger one of course. And I asked him if he know how many of those men got their permission: by beating up their current spouses until they said yes. I don't know how things are now, but at the time, since men had their say in practically everything, domestic abuses rarely got to court and even if it did, the men usually won.
Last edited by EMTZ; October 26,2009 at 7:09pm.
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