Officially, bigamy and polygamy are punishable by up to seven years in prison. It was declared illegal in England and Wales in 1604, when the Parliament of James I took action to restrain ‘evil persons’ marrying more than one wife — on penalty of death. But officialdom now turns a blind eye because of cultural sensitivities. – Source: This article
For he has so many children that he struggles to remember their names, and five wives from various countries, including Yemen, Egypt, Turkey and his own birthplace, Pakistan.
Ghulam’s latest bride is a shy 20-year-old called Hafeza. He brought her to Britain from Morocco, soon after his 45th birthday earlier this year. They married in an Islamic wedding ceremony called ‘the Nikah’ in her village, with Hafeza’s pleased parents among the guests.
Thirty miles across the Pennines in Yorkshire, pizza delivery driver Wasim, 27, has an equally complicated domestic life.
He lives in a part of Dewsbury called Savile Town, a network of 11 terrace streets dominated by one of the biggest mosques in Europe, where most residents are Asian with origins in Pakistan or India.
Wasim has three wives, the first of whom lives with him and their three teenage sons. His other two wives have separate houses in Savile Town, one down the road and another round the corner. He visits each two nights a week.
The women have had several of Wasim’s children and he hopes the youngest bride (aged 19) will soon present him with another baby.
I learned of Ghulam and Wasim this week while investigating a subject that is taboo in politically correct Britain. It is the huge rise of bigamy (having two wives) and polygamy (more than two) in our Muslim communities. » | Sue Reid | Saturday, September 24, 2011
If bigamy and polygamy is wrong and punishable by jail for one group of people, it should be wrong and punishable by jail for the other groups too. Political correctness should have absolutely nothing to do with it. Polygamy is either right and allowable, or wrong and disallowable – for ALL. But this corrosive practice will not be stopped by the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, or the Liberal Democrats. It doesn't matter who is in power, none of the politicians have the courage to stop these alien practices. Our politicians are spineless. Totally spineless! And it is for this very reason that this country is being destroyed before our very eyes. In a few years' time, the country will be unrecognisable. It took six years to destroy National Socialism, but when it comes to Islam destroying us, it seems that our politicians are clueless. It helps little to worry about loss of sovereignty to the EU when the country is being destroyed from within. – Mark
