Islamist Politics and Single Mums of Malaysia…………….
“Malaysia's Islamic party tells men to wed single mums. Malaysia's conservative Islamic party has urged Muslim men to marry single mothers as additional wives instead of "young virgin girls", a state official said. Wan Ubaidah Omar, a cabinet minister from northern Kelantan, which the party controls, said the proposal aired in state parliament this week was needed to help single mothers and widows in the underdeveloped region. "Muslim men usually like young girls or virgins as their additional wives, so I suggest instead of taking these young virgin girls, why don't they marry the single mothers as their second or third wife?" she told AFP…….. Muslim men in Malaysia are allowed to marry up to four women but Islamic courts must approve multiple marriages before they take place. About 60 percent of the country's 27 million population are Muslims. Women's groups here have campaigned against polygamy, saying it is cruel and has deviated from its original purpose in Islam…… “
Malaysia is different from most Arab states where there is no need to get permission. One just goes ahead and marries a second, third, fourth. Emulating the rulers. Few of them actually do that outside the Persian Gulf states, because few can afford it. Fewer in the Gulf do it now, because it is too costly in terms of money, frayed nerves, and , er, energy.
But, there is a Malaysian logic here: if one is going to do it, he might as well do it “right”.
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