Comments on: Muslim Association of Britain: Polygamy is a Responsibility

By: mullah

mullah — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:11:01 +0000

Simple really, if you don’t want to abide by the laws of the land, then go and live in another land.

In other words, get stuffed if you don’t like the libel laws in the UK. You can bugger off to Saudi Arabia or wherever it is that they have libel laws that you agree with.

I suppose Emily Pankhurst and Rosa Parks would have benefitted from Anaximader’s simple advice too if they’d had a bloody clue!

By: Anaximanders other sandal

Anaximanders other sandal — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:30:10 +0000

“God help us!”

Screw God and pass the ridicule, polygamy is against the Law, isn’t it, if you want polygamy go and live in a country that allows polygamy.

Simple really, if you don’t want to abide by the laws of the land, then go and live in another land.

Shit, do you think I am a polygamophobic?

By: Josh Scholar

Josh Scholar — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:14:27 +0000

Ok, I’ve learned better than to argue with OP. Her arguments are all pose.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:46:12 +0000

Polygamy isn’t disguisting.. As long as you could fair for all, and you able doing that so it’s ok. But if you can do that, so DON’T

By: Old Peculier

Old Peculier — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:05:38 +0000

educate people away from those beliefs.

Quite. Teach people that polygamy – like FGM, honour killing and all the other multicultural “enrichment” belongs in the desert, the jungle, or the past.

Our superior Western civilisation has managed perfectly well without this revolting barbarism. Why spoil it?

By: Josh Scholar

Josh Scholar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:21:21 +0000

If you bothered to read my comments carefully (and you look up the dictionary definition of “polygamy”) you would have noticed that I never supported polygyny.

You’re arguing that members of a sub-culture with oppressive and sexist attitudes and a bad religion and will suffer because of their beliefs unless we prevent the rest of society from having a reasonable freedom.

I say that if you want to prevent a sub-culture with oppressive beliefs from causing suffering then you should educate people away from those beliefs. Just passing laws to try to straight-jacket them (and everyone else) is an unjust solution.

By: Old Peculier

Old Peculier — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:01:56 +0000

How can there be a form of polygamy – where one man is allowed several women but not vice versa – that is not exploititive? Is there any society on earth that legalises polygamy that actually works?

And don’t give me the polygyny/polyandry argument. It only works one way. Legalise polygamy and women will have no choice in the matter, with disastrous – Arab-style – consequences. Huge families, all dependent on the state, child rape, totally disfunctional, incestuous – and that’s just the Mormons.

Polygamy is disgusting.

By: Josh Scholar

Josh Scholar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:54:54 +0000

Once again you have refused to recognize that I separated the uncivilized aspects of Arab marriage from civilized forms of polygamy.

Obviously you must be very happy that Arabs practice an exploitive form of polygamy, because otherwise you couldn’t pretend that this is the only possible form of polygamy and you’d be forced to argue about polygamy honestly.

By: Old Peculier

Old Peculier — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:40:03 +0000

I’m talking about what the law should be in civilized societies.

If a society gives an uncivilised custom legal sanction, then it is no longer a civilised society.

By: Josh Scholar

Josh Scholar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:26:16 +0000

That should read “treat women as chattel” not “threat women as chattel”