"It's called the double standard ... Don't knock it — we got the long end of the stick on that one." - Ayatollah Hank Hill, King of the Hill
Oh, yes. This will lead to much happier, more stable families. What could possibly go wrong? Among the many measures imposed by the Islamic Republic, this one should prove to be particularly popular, however, as it amounts to a blank check for religiously sanctioned, utter lack of restraint -- for men only, of course.
"Agencies Question Need for Iran's Family Protection Bill," by Amy Kellogg for Fox News, November 30 (thanks to EZ Rider):
The Iranian government calls it the Family Protection Bill, but activists call it the “Anti-Family Protection Bill.”
It would give men the right to take a second wife without the permission of the first, and it would enshrine a man’s right to have an unlimited number of temporary marriages, which can last from 10 minutes to 99 years. Those arrangements come from Shariah law and have always existed in Iran, but the Family Protection Bill would make them official.
Two groups -- the International Coalition Against Violence in Iran, and the Association of Iranian Researchers -- arranged a press conference in London last week to raise awareness of the issue. Amid the upheaval in Iran right now -- the hardship associated with sanctions, and the political strife -- they question why such a law, which has been winding its way through Iran’s government for several years, even needs to be on the table.
Women opposed to the articles in the bill that pertain to polygamy went on a brave and creative odyssey more than a year ago to confront it, traveling around Iran to talk to women whose lives have been adversely affected by their husbands taking second wives.
The women wrote their stories on pieces of cloth; if they were illiterate, they had someone else write them down. Then they sewed the pieces together into a quilt. The quilt is still in Iran, but a digital image was smuggled out.
“Most of the stories are from around Iran, not from Tehran. They are sad stories,” said Rouhi Shafii of the International Coalition Against Violence in Iran. Here is a translation of one of the stories:
“A few years after my marriage, my husband started telling me, jokingly, that I looked like an old woman. I was five years younger than he. He began beating me and broke my hands several times. When he talked of taking up another wife, I took it as a joke. He wouldn’t do that, I thought. We have two children. But one day he married a young girl and wanted to get a two story building to bring his bride to live with us. I made him swear on the Koran not to do that, and he took his child bride elsewhere. He forgot about us and spent all his earning enjoying his bride. I was providing for the children by working at people’s homes or hairdressing salons. My younger son says: ‘when I grow up, I will kill my dad.’”
A group of women activists also gathered 15,000 signatures from women opposed to the law — signatures complete with their addresses. The activists brought the signatures and the quilt to Parliament last year, to try to stop the legalization of the polygamy articles as part of the new law. Parliament accepted the signatures, but would not take the quilt.
“It was a very brave act they did last year, in the middle of demonstrations and detentions,” Shafii told Fox News.
Many of the women involved in creating the quilt are out of Iran right now, but they were afraid to appear at the press conference, fearing the regime would make life hard for their families back home.
To many Iranian women, temporary marriage is tantamount to legalized prostitution. But the women’s opposition to the bill is not unanimous. Many female Members of Parliament are as conservative as the men, and they support the legislation.
At this point, the two articles of the bill that deal with polygamy are on hold, but they have not been canceled out of the bill. Shafii believes activism has kept those bills from being passed so far.
The Iranian government calls it the Family Protection Bill, but activists call it the “Anti-Family Protection Bill.”
What a bunch of "beneath even being schmucks", this big gang of fraud islam crooks.
All they think of as top priority, is sex, in any, every, manner possible, and controlling people, above all women, and children, by any means possible, including beating, to any degree.
Islam.
As unimaginably f__ked as you could never even consider having your worst nightmare about.
The world could never, repeat NEVER, produce the required number of psychiatrists to even attempt to undo the brain damage done to those living today by this satanic cult.
"...But the women’s opposition to the bill is not unanimous. Many female Members of Parliament are as conservative as the men, and they support the legislation."
It is not just the Iranians who are indulging in Orwellian Doublespeak with gems like the "Family Protection Bill".
Fox unwittingly play the game as well by rendering the term "conservative" meaningless. When "conservatives" support multiple wives then advocates of a one man/one wife marriage are what, radical? Progressive?
Unlimited temporary marriages= official Islamic prostitution!!
Prostitution? what prostitution?
The Pleasure Marriage is a temporary marriage that allows men to enjoy women for a particular period of time.
It was practised by Muhammad and his compagnions.
"Yes, we had been benefiting ourselves by this temporary marriage during the lifetime of the Holy Prophet.."
Sahih Muslim, 8.32.48
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html
(slide #177)
And ALL the West's free feminists spoke out in unison in every media outlet against this abuse against their foreign sisters . . .
Huh? Oooops, I guess I was dreaming.
And what's supposed to happen as the percentage of available single women to man diminishes exponentially?
Huh? Oooops, I guess I was dreaming again. Rape? Animals?
WE ARE AT WAR!
Just wait 'til the health version of Stuxnet gains traction among these freewheelin', temporary marriage types -- I'm talkin' about HIV!
Clowns!
"...and it would enshrine a man’s right to have an unlimited number of temporary marriages, which can last from 10 minutes to 99 years."
Wow, 10 minutes. Is that how long it takes for a Muslim man to, you know? I'm going to have to run right out and get me one of those.
Muslims still have multiple wives in the 21st century? What a bunch of Barbarians.
Rocket Man, huh? Ha, Ha, Isabella.
Great comments, from all today, I'll say!
OH MY GOSH, TJ! Thanks for that visual, NOT!
I guess with this bill though, goats all over Iran are breathing a sigh of relief. ; ) Perhaps they should call it the Goat Protection Bill. LOL
Oh Isabella, I love your sense of humour!
"Goat Protection Bill", indeed.
Thanks IND. Love you too!
'Runnin' out the door...see you later. : )
Unlimited temporary marriages--Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm-Hang on, Im athinkin'-Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I met a black Muslim man from Darfur. The racism in Islam meant his homeland had become unliveable, and he was an exile. His father had had two wives and made his first wife and kids miserable, and he hated his father, but: he believed in polygamy, he adored Islam, he was happy.
I've often thought about this fellow. (No matter how much one reads, it is the personal encounters which stick most.) How could this religion which had caused him so much unhappiness make him so...happy...? Does the prayer do something physiologically, like Tibetan chanting? What is it about Islam that makes people unable to connect their suffering with their religion?
Iran has seen the fastest decline in birthrates of any nation, they went from having the birthrate of a booming Muslim nation to the same rates as the socialist welfare states of Europe in a single generation (which is unheard of). They don't have enough young people to keep the country afloat in the next generation and the regime is struggling to encourage it's citizens to keep having children, they've tried everything from child tax-credits to outright bribery. Unfortunately for them, once a country goes into this kind of decline it's very nearly impossible for any government to turn it around. Most of this I learned from Mark Steyn's excellent books, America Alone and After America.
So what does this mean? It means an even more unstable Iran so, yay!
"So what does this mean?"
Older suicide bombers?
What a scam, but how fitting since Islam is a giant scam.
PJG
re your question about the "happy" Muslims who adore Islam even while the things it's actually making them do make them unhappy.
Have you read the 'Harry Potter' books?
In 'Goblet of Fire' the death-eater posing as Mad-Eye Moody, and teaching 'Defence Against the Dark Arts', demonstrates the Imperius curse, using the students as subjects.
Here's the description, from chapter 15.
'Moody raised his wand, pointed it at Harry , and said 'Imperio'.
"It was the most wonderful feeling. Harry felt a floating sensation as every thought and worry in his head was wiped gently away, leaving nothing but a vague untraceable happiness. He stood there feeling immensely relaxed, only dimly aware of everyone watching him.
"And then he heard Mad-Eye Moody's voice, echoing in some distant chamber of his empty brain, 'jump onto the desk' - jump onto the desk'.
'Harry bent his knees, obediently preparing to spring...".
(In Harry's case, a second voice pipes up at the back of his brain -' 'Stupid thing to do, really, said the voice...'. And Harry is able partly to resist the command. But most of his classmates succumb pretty much without resistance).
I suspect that Islam may do something to its slaves that is equivalent to the blissful mind-wipe empty-head feeling that, in her fiction, Rowling imagines as the initial effect of the Imperius curse upon the victim.
Now, here's Ayaan Hirsi Ali describing Islam and the way it is set up to erase the individual volition, the self-hood, of its adherents:
From Infidel, chapter 6:
"a Muslim girl does not make her own decisions or seek control. She is trained to be docile.
" If you are a Muslim girl, you disappear, until there is almost no *you* inside you.
"In Islam, becoming an individual is not a necessary development; many people, especially women, never develop a clear individual will.
"You submit: that is the literal meaning of the word 'Islam', Submission.
"The goal is to become quiet inside, so that you never raise your eyes, not even inside your mind".
In other words: mind-wipe, just like being put under the Imperius curse.
'You disappear, until there is almost no *you* inside you'.
'many people...never develop a clear individual will'.
The aim seems to be to produce obedient puppets; who have nothing inside their heads except the Sharia/ Quran-Sunnah programming.
Perhaps the other analogy one could use would be that of drug-taking.
Drug addicts love the heroin even though it makes them sick and makes them do appalling things.
One Muslim talking to V S Naipaul, in 'Among the Believers', actually said that Islam was like a cocaine - "It makes you high. You go to that mosque and you get high. And then whatever happens is allah's will"...
There is *something* - psychological or spiritual or both - going on.
"To many Iranian women, temporary marriage is tantamount to legalized prostitution. "
As far as I'm concerned that is the only way to categorize it,"legalized prostitution" brought to you courtesy of the hypocritical & massive fraud called islam.
This practice has been around for a long time and it was wrong then and it is wrong now. Mohammed ok'd this little arrangement when the Muslim armies were away from home for extended periods of time. If your wife is at home and you are conquering the "world" you don't have adequate provision for you sexual desires. So you marry a temp. Then if she won't obey you you beat her (Koran says ok) then you rape her, and then you divorce her (Koran says ok). Then you go out and "marry" someone else. Mohammed knew how to keep his men satisfied. It is a horrible arrangement, but Islam has many little things like this that are not spoken of by those who claim Islam is the "religion of peace."
Decadent West, understand that
There is no Greater Deeper Love than
Love for Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
& Submission to OmniPotent Allah (pbuh)
Our Bodies and Hearts are Aching
We've been getting no Satisfaction since 7th century :`(
The females, they must try Harder!
'til we get 72 Brand-new ones in the Sky
“It was a very brave act they did last year, in the middle of demonstrations and detentions,” Shafii told Fox News.
Indeed, giving your name and address in the petition to Iranian government is a courageous act which deserves supports of true feminists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3f9EqqKuk&feature=fvst
Hmmm. I can hardly wait until true Capitalism reaches Iran.
Maybe then, the Iranians can show us how Islam truly views the sanctity of marriage: by giving temporary marriage certificates as the prize in a Crackerjack Box.
If they are really good, they will allow male Iranian Crackerjack consumers to save up several 10 minute certificates and trade them in on marriage certificates of greater duration. I would predict that a trade-in for the maximum temporary marriage certificate (99 years) would come from one incredibly obese temporary groom-to-be.
Ahhh, Crackerjacks and Islam, it's a marriage made in heaven (but only a temporary one)
On a serious note, this scheme sounds as perverted as the indulgences sold by the Catholic Church prior to the Reformation.
Iran: New "family protection bill" will let men take second wife without permission from the first, allows unlimited temporary marriages
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How Orwellian is it to call this monstrosity the "Family Protection Bill"? Good God.
More:
"...it would enshrine a man’s right to have an unlimited number of temporary marriages, which can last from 10 minutes to 99 years."
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*99 years*? Well, that sure gets these good Muslims around that pesky and confining rule about the "four wife" limit...
God, I hate Islam...