European Cultural Collapse Update: "Netherlands Recognizes Polygamous Muslim Marriages," from NIS News, August 12 (thanks to Writer Mom):
ROTTERDAM, 12/08/08 - Although polygamy is banned in the Netherlands, the marriages of Muslims who have several wives are recognised by Dutch authorities.Registrars in the major cities, in particular, record dozens of bigamous or polygamous marriages per year. These marriages are prohibited and an offence in the Netherlands. However, polygamous marriages that take place in countries where more than one wife is permitted, such as Morocco, are accepted, newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports.
If immigrants with several wives settle in the Netherlands, the local authorities register all the marriages. However, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS), where all marriages are registered nationally, removes these bigamous or polygamous marriages from its files, on the assumption that administrative errors have occurred. As a result, it is not known how common the phenomenon is in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam city council has informed the CBS that the marriages are not a mistake. "We will now investigate whether this can be regarded as a trend that was previously not recognised. If this is the case, it is out task to report this," CBS researcher Jan Latten explained in NRC Handelsblad.
"At present, it is not included in our statistics," Latten pointed out. "In the same way, we delete marriages involving fourteen-year-olds. A man with two wives just cannot exist by law."
Spokesman T. Verhoeven of the Rotterdam city council disclosed that polygamous marriages are registered almost every week. "They are simply acknowledged. It is important for us to check that the documents are authentic and that the husband does not have Dutch nationality." Otherwise the construction is illegal, Verhoeven explained....
"At present, it is not included in our statistics," Latten pointed out. "In the same way, we delete marriages involving fourteen-year-olds. A man with two wives just cannot exist by law."
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So, these polygamous "marriages"--and even "marriages" to under-age girls--are acknowledged at the local level, so that Muslims can get their benefits and other goodies from the state.
However, they are not acknowledged at the national level, where they might constitute an embarrassment for the Netherlands.
I wonder just how many "clerical errors" are coming up in the records? Bureaucratic idiocy run rampant, and a few steps closer to the suicide of Europe.
The Dutch should deport all the excess wives, and their children back to Morocco, or wherever they came from. If they're already citizens, then their citizenship should be revoked, as being illegally obtained, and then they should be deported.
Reminds me of a line: "There are two things I hate: people who are intolerant of other peoples' culture, and the Dutch."
Okay. Is this a surprise that polygamy is now being recognized by the Dutch. After all this is the nation that brought you legalized drugs. Also dabbled in fielding a military unit composed of "soldiers" who were allowed to maintain their civvy lifestyle back in the 70's. Boy wasn't that a failure. And I am certain there are others here who can expand the list of idiotic things coming out of the Netherlands. Hell, why even wait, just go ahead and announce you are making islam the political system and enacting sharia. Geez, at least Utah has the sense to at least pretend polygamy is against the law. Now the Dutch won't even be able to do that.
This is pathetic. The entire Dutch political elite almost without exception has chosen formal surrender. If they have their way, Holland is permanently finished. The only other possibility is a popular rebellion. Does anybody remember this article?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/013100.php
Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner considers the Netherlands should give Muslims more freedoms to behave according to their traditions…."For me it is clear: if two-thirds of the Dutch population should want to introduce the Sharia tomorrow, then the possibility should exist," according to Donner. "It would be a disgrace to say: 'That is not allowed!'."
Gregorius Nekschot, as the first cartoonist ever in the Western world, was arrested for a Multicultural thought crime by having "insulted Muslims." So, Muslim men can now have multiple wives funded by the Dutch state, whereas you cannot "insult" Muslims by criticizing or mocking their practices.
The Dutch state, as so many other Western countries, has destroyed the social contract and hence no longer has any right to collect taxes. After the EU Constitution was rejected by an overwhelming majority of the Dutch people, yet is pushed through anyway, the state has no legitimacy whatsoever. As Thomas Jefferson said: "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
Let us quote John Lock in the Second Treatise on Government on the social contract:
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property, and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative is that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society, to limit the power and moderate the dominion of every part and member of the society. For since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which everyone designs to secure by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making, whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people....By this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society. What I have said here, concerning the legislative in general, holds true also concerning the supreme executor, who having a double trust put in him, both to have a part in the legislative, and the supreme execution of the law, acts against both when he goes about to set up his own arbitrary will as the law of the society."
Just part of the program, folks...
http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/lp/spila/wlb/iwlb/14netherlands.shtml
Goodbye Holland. You're finished.
WTF?!?!?!? Would've thought that England would have recognized polygamous marraiges before any other European country.
Hollandaise sauce is as impotent in reality as it is on poached eggs.
Holland has no "eggs" and it certainly has no "sauce".
Vaarwel Nederland ik huilen voor uw verlies van vanavond. Je bent een schaap, omringd door wolven.
Ik huil met jou. Niet alleen vanavond, maar al lang, veel langer.
Please knock off this "talk" of sheep and tears.
The Dutch still maintain a majority in their own country, for crying out loud!
Put some egg, put some sauce and make it a true Hollandaise!
What's next? Sharia law, Halal only foods in supermarkets? I hope that these idiot European countries wake up before it is too late!
Somehow I think the Dutch need bigger sized wooden shoes.
The current ones they're wearing seem to be cutting off the blood supply to their brains!
The Dutch schould prosecute all the illegal marriages , no matter whether its moslems or any other people. Why do moslems get special conditions?
The Dutch schould prosecute all the illegal marriages , no matter whether its moslems or any other people. Why do moslems get special conditions?
According to UN data, the minimum age for marriage in the Netherlands is 18, or 16 in cases where the female is pregnant or has already given birth. So how can a "marriage" to a 14 year old be allowed?
"At present, it is not included in our statistics," Latten pointed out. "In the same way, we delete marriages involving fourteen-year-olds. A man with two wives just cannot exist by law."
Spokesman T. Verhoeven of the Rotterdam city council disclosed that polygamous marriages are registered almost every week. "They are simply acknowledged. It is important for us to check that the documents are authentic and that the husband does not have Dutch nationality." Otherwise the construction is illegal, Verhoeven explained....
I'm so confused!!
So are the Dutch, obviously.
After all that former Somali moslem Ayaan Hirsi Ali fought for--and risked her very life for--in the Netherlands, both as a private citizen and as a member of the Dutch Parliament, I wonder what her reaction to this is.
(I recommend "Infidel," by Ali Hirsi Ali for those who have not had an opportunity to read it.)
Yeah. That's a good idea. The more the Dutch try to be "tolerant" the more they will have to tolerate. Grow a pair. Stand up and say no. (very loudly)
Silly dhimmis! A Muslim can marry up to four Muslimahs. It's in the Qur'an!
Your silly man-made laws cannot overrule Sharia.
Registrars in the major cities, in particular, record dozens of bigamous or polygamous marriages per year.
All the easier to track down later, the dears. Muwahah, muwahahahah, muwahahahahah...