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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: DixieBelle on May 27, 2008, 12:45:44 PM
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There were no pleasantries, there was no small talk. Safa Rigby had expected to hear her husband's voice when the phone rang one morning. Instead, the caller didn't even bother to say hello.
"You think you know your husband. You don't know him at all," said the man, a friend of her husband's. "His car is parked outside my house right now. He is with my ex-wife. They just got married last week," the man said.
It took a minute for the news to sink in. Then she called her husband of 14 years, demanding to know if what she had just been told was true – that while she spent a year in Egypt raising their four children in a more Islamic environment, he had used it as an opportunity to marry not just one, but two other women in Toronto.
"Yes, I'm married," he said, quashing all her dreams of their future together.
He told her he was married in a small ceremony 20 days earlier, officiated by Aly Hindy, a well-known Toronto imam, at his Scarborough mosque.
"I cried for six days straight. Lost my appetite, ignored the kids, even had to start taking antidepressants," said Rigby, 35. "What I couldn't understand was how such a thing could happen in Toronto, my hometown, where polygamy is supposed to be illegal."
It was easy. He simply found an imam willing to break a Canadian law, in exchange for upholding an Islamic one.
"Polygamy is happening in Toronto; it's not common, but it's happening," said Hindy, imam at Salahuddin Islamic Centre.
Hindy, hardly a stranger to controversy, is well known for his friendship with the family of Omar Khadr, the young Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and his outspoken views on the implementation of Islamic law. In the past five years, Hindy said he has officiated or "blessed" more than 30 polygamous marriages; the most recent was two months ago. Even some imams in the GTA have second wives, he added.
"This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion," he said. "If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that."
Those who condone the practice rarely let their views be known, and those who practise it themselves tend to do so in secret, making it difficult to record how many such marriages have taken place in the GTA. Equally hard to determine is how many polygamous families have immigrated to the country, despite a 2005 report commissioned by the federal Status of Women that tried to find out the extent of polygamy and its implications.
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http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/429490
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"This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion," he said. "If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that."
Once gay marriage is allowed in our society, the precedent is set: anyone will be allowed to marry anyone (and soon afterwards, anything). Marriage is to be between one man and one woman, there's nothing else to talk about.
Tell me I'm wrong.
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"This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion," he said. "If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that."
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While I understand their position of dedication to one's faith, Islam is so dangerous for precisely this reason. When you have a book that encourages their faithful to lie to disbelievers and to be faithful to those things set out for them to follow in its pages, how can you ever trust such a group of people?
I would love to see how liberals will try to wrap themselves around this when they start breaking their prescious EEOC regulations so as not to hire an infidel or make a work environmnet so unbelievable hostile for a female worker. I worked for an Egyptian business owner one time and he was so disrespectful and demeaning to me. Didn't take me more then 2 weeks to get out of that place. I know...that's one incident, but I still consider this religion a very destructive one.
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guess that isn't Grand Theft Auto, huh...
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guess that isn't Grand Theft Auto, huh...
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one to think that. :-)
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Well count me in too. I was wondering WTF this had to do with the game....
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guess that isn't Grand Theft Auto, huh...
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one to think that. :-)
Great minds think alike. I was trying to figuer out the connection between Grand Theft Auto and poligamy.
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guess that isn't Grand Theft Auto, huh...
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one to think that. :-)
Greater Toronto Area? (IS there such a thing?!? Doesn't that imply the existence of a lesser Toronto area, and is that even possible?)
The videogame was all I could think of 'til I thought of that one, since Toronto is mentioned.
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You got me! I just copied the title. I assume what you said ^^
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guess that isn't Grand Theft Auto, huh...
That's what I thought, too - I know there were mods that you could add on GTA 3: San Andreas to open up "special" missions, I thought there might be one for polygamy in GTA IV. I'm only halfway through the game. :(
I've heard this is happening in the UK - Muslims getting tacit approval for polygamy in the name of religious freedom.
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guess that isn't Grand Theft Auto, huh...
That's what I thought, too - I know there were mods that you could add on GTA 3: San Andreas to open up "special" missions, I thought there might be one for polygamy in GTA IV. I'm only halfway through the game. :(
I've heard this is happening in the UK - Muslims getting tacit approval for polygamy in the name of religious freedom.
Well, honestly, since there are no barriers to doing whatever you want by way of family life with any number or assortment of partners without benefit of legal marriage, and receipt of welfare benefits is enhanced by avoiding it completely, it's surprising that de facto polygamy isn't a lot more prevalent than it is.