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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: kumar who wrote (1214)12/29/2002 9:42:47 PM
From: lorne  Respond to of 15987
 
Thanks Kumar. I was aware of that and I believe the age can be below 13 years.



To: kumar who wrote (1214)12/30/2002 8:45:32 AM
From: Brumar89  Respond to of 15987
 
Muslim men are typically allowed up to 4 wives.

And they can divorce them by saying "I divorce you" three times. Maybe this explains why some have many more than four wives - when they want a new one, they just divorce one of the old ones - to keep the number of current wives down to four. Osama Bin Ladin's mother was his father's 10th wife.

If they can not treat all 4 with equal respect/attention/whatever, they are not permitted.

Who enforces this and how?



To: kumar who wrote (1214)1/1/2003 7:33:19 PM
From: KLP  Respond to of 15987
 
What happens to all the children with so many wives...Do they become emotionally damaged and twisted? Wonder if that is what happened to OBL?