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I have yet to meet a muslim man with more than one wife let alone four..Such a lack of understanding of true islamic principles and provisions (and the use of t
by zpatel 9y ago
I have yet to meet a muslim man with more than one wife let alone four..Such a lack of understanding of true islamic principles and provisions (and the use of them).
- jimmy1 9y agoNot to incite a holy war, but it is kind of hard to defend Islam in this regard when the role model for every Muslim had multiple wives.
- cheez 9y agoI believe the reason for this was to protect the women. Not sure though.
- arczyx 9y agoTo be fair, it was normal at that point in history at many parts of the world to have multiple wives (or one wife + multiple concubines). That and the prophet was actually monogamous for 25 years (until his first wife who was 15 years older than him passed away).
- forapurpose 9y agoEvery religious scripture has many things that are barbaric by modern standards. This comment really is out of place.
- tim333 9y agoBahai would probably be an exception. About the worst they do is be slightly sexist.
- yAnonymous 9y agoIt's vastly different when the person you're talking about is the main prophet/god of a religion. There can't even be an argument about Jesus being a much better role model for an open society than Muhammad. Muhammad was a murderer, held slaves and some argue that he raped women. Worshiping him as a person is at the very least questionable.
- dang 9y agoReligious flamewar is not allowed on Hacker News. Please take/keep this elsewhere. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yAnonymous 8y agoNobody is "flaming", just pointing out facts. I didn't start the argument though, so I suggest you clean up from the root. It's amazing how biased you are in this.
- dang 8y agoYour comment was obviously religious flamewar in the sense that we ban accounts for. We try hard to be unbiased, but when someone has just broken the site rules egregiously, such claims are a little hollow. You unfortunately have a history of violating the HN guidelines in comments. We've asked you several times to stop doing this. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban you. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended.
- jeswin 9y agoIslamic laws explicitly allow multiple wives and I know people who have multiple wives. Here in India the top body of Muslims (AIMPLB) is now fighting a revision to the law that delegitimizes it (the right to have four wives). The strangest thing is that there's a sizable number of women who support the law in its current form. Religion is difficult to comprehend.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoReligion... or economics. Marriages traditionally were more about economics (and in case of powerful families, politics) than emotions. The concept of marriage being almost entirely a consideration of the people getting married seems relatively modern and western.
- raverbashing 9y agoAlso war logistics
- pksadiq 9y ago> The strangest thing is that there's a sizable number of women who support the law in its current form. Different localities have different cultures, and for some, it's good. Say for example, in my locality (Kerala), Muslim men have more than a wife only on certain conditions like: 1. The first wife can't bear a child and the person marries another one without avoiding the earlier wife 2. Marrying widows so as to protect them (there might be occasional cases of exploiting this too, though I'm not aware of any). I do also have seen a finger countable cases where a man marries some women to threaten other wives. But so far, I remember only two such cases in my neighborhood, and none in my family. Usually such men get really less support from the community. So women having such an experience shall be supporting the current law.
- jeswin 9y ago> Different localities have different cultures, and for some, it's good. Men deciding what women want is a repugnant thing to do. To use your own examples: 1. If infertility is with the man, can the woman simulataneously keep two husbands? 2. Can a woman marry a widower to take care of him while being in a marriage? Pretty sure this is blasphemous in Islam.
- jlebrech 9y agoyou are lucky enough to live in a country where polygamy is outlawed.
- baud147258 9y agoA few years ago, I was tutoring a high school student. Her father had two wives (at least, but I think two is more likely).