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Moderate Malaysia: 70% of women okay with other women’s husbands practicing polygamy

Oct 20, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Some 70 per cent of Muslim women in Malaysia are agreeable with men practising polygamy. However, only 32 per cent are agreeable to polygamy within their own marriage.”

This indicates that they don’t really approve of it at all, but because it is sanctioned in the Qur’an (4:3), they don’t dare speak against it directly. Polygamy reduces women to the status of commodities. Western feminists, however, show no sign of caring.

“70% of M’sian Muslim women okay with men practising polygamy but not their own husbands,” by Matthias Ang, Mothership, October 16, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Some 70 per cent of Muslim women in Malaysia are agreeable with men practising polygamy.

However, only 32 per cent are agreeable to polygamy within their own marriage.

These were the results found in a survey conducted by Malaysian civil society organisation Sisters in Islam (SIS), The Star reported.

Titled “Perception and Realities: The Public and Personal Rights of Muslim Women in Malaysia”, the survey was funded by the European Union (EU), and published on Oct. 15.

It was conducted among 675 women nation-wide, aged 18 to 55.

The survey further found that 21 per cent of the respondents also agreed that a man could beat his wife on the grounds of nusyuz (disobedience).

Grounds for beating that counted as disobedience, included:

Leaving the house without the consent of one’s husband,
Refusing to have sex with him,
Refusing to move with him,
Refusing to open the door for him,
Refusing to answer his calling….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    Polygamy is not sanctioned by God. For example God gave Adam one wife. Furthermore, in the New Testament Jesus taught “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife…” Jesus said “wife.” Not “wives” Mathew 19:5. [K.J.V.] Likewise, in First Timothy 3:2. In instructs “A bishop the must be blameless, the husband on one wife.” Here again it’s “one wife”

    Nevertheless, there are some people who will act as apologists for polygamy by say the king David of Israel and then later his son ,who became King Solomon of Israel did practice polygamy. Such people aren’t taking into account both the time and place. For the only reason that God did tolerate this tradition was not because it was right or that He approved of it. It was because this practice of having many wives was such an entrenched custom in the ancient Middle East that God allowed it for the above mentioned Kings of Israel. This does not mean that this custom, of polygamy, was to keep on going in other times and places.

    • David Latham (@DavidLa65674684) says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 10:05 pm

      Walter, You are ignorant of OT Law that not only sanctions polygamy but also provides instruction of what a husband’s responsibility is in caring for his wife/s. You cite 1Tim. 3:5 as evidence that a man should only have one wife. There are two ways of looking at the passage. One is that the person seeking the office of a bishop has to be married! He has to have at least one wife but must have one! It can also be argued (the preferred argument” that the word “one” Gk. “Mia” should have been translated with the indefinite article “a”. We see this in 1 Tim. 5:9 where the expression “…having been the wife of ‘one’ man.” It makes the most sense to believe that Paul was merely repeating the fact that she had to have “a” husband, not “only one” husband since we know that polyandry was not practiced in Israelite culture. This admonition supports Mosaic law of polygamy which, by the way, was never abrogated. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Gideon, Samuel, and Solomon, to name a few, all had more than one wife. Read Leviticus 18:18, 2 Chron. 24:2, Ex. 21:10, Deut. 24:5 etc. “you do err, not knowing the scriptures Mt. 22:29.

      • marc says

        Oct 21, 2019 at 12:18 am

        I don’t know the case for Christian law, but Ashkenazi Judaism banned it a thousand years ago
        https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/558598/jewish/Does-Jewish-Law-Forbid-Polygamy.htm

        • Joe says

          Oct 21, 2019 at 7:40 am

          Various Catholic leaders condemned polygamy about 1300 years ago as it was considered immoderate. It was never officially condemned until the Council of Trent in about 1550. Scripture in the Old Testament is okay with it, but it is not particularly allowed in the New Testament. Catholics don’t say that polygamy is intrinsically wrong; it was banned because it made women second class citizens.

      • Walter Sieruk says

        Oct 21, 2019 at 1:49 pm

        To David Latham , thank you fro taking the time to reply to by posting,concerning First Timothy 3:2 3:2. in which the instruction is given that “A Bishop of the Lord must blameless a husband of one.” wife.”

        One of my Bible commentaries, Unger’s Bible Commentary, going over that specific Bible verse provides the information about First Timothy 3;2 which reads “a husband of one wife.” teaches that this verse was not to keep single men from being pastors , bishops, but to ban men who are polygamists from being bishops in the Christian church

  2. Goofy says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    Not much sister solidarity in Malaysia.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 5:03 pm

      Nope–but that’s Islam for you.

      • Infidel says

        Oct 20, 2019 at 8:35 pm

        Polygyny for thee, but not for me

      • J D S p says

        Oct 21, 2019 at 10:27 am

        Yes @ Graven, every day I see more and more stupidity in Islam…..will it ever stop???..Not until the west wakes from their sleep brought on by the use if the drug ISLAM.

    • FYI says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 6:25 pm

      Speaking of “Sister solidarity””,that silly virtue-signalling convert to islam,sinead o connor,busy promoting her new album has said “Milestones is a new song about how dogs have more rights than women”.

      Women’s rights?

      islam is a chauvinistic misogynistic religion whose god and “prophet” teach that women have a”Deficiency of the mind”,are NOT equal to men and are worth only HALF the value of a man in legal testimony k2:282

      Her child-raping polygamous “prophet” muhammed,the exemplar of moral goodness: of whom aisha said
      “You {muhammed}have made us EQUAL TO DOGS and asses”
      Sahih Muslim 4:1039

      Aisha said muhammed regarded women as equal to dogs and the idiotic o’connor says “dogs have more rights than women”:NOT in islam they don’t,not according to aisha!

      Apparently O’connor sees herself as a feminist.I guess that conversion to islam trick will help sell records as it makes no sense for a “feminist” to convert to a cult whose god,prophet and scripture are extremely misogynistic.

  3. Dan says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 2:25 pm

    More than likely they’re okay with polygamy because it means there’s the chance, for one at least, of getting the night off from being brutally raped.

  4. mortimer says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 3:01 pm

    Former Muslim Nonnie Darwish said that monogamy is one of the greatest of all blessings to women.

  5. mortimer says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    The alleged ‘most feminist religion’ says …

    Grounds for beating that counted as disobedience, included:

    Leaving the house without the consent of one’s husband,
    Refusing to have sex with him,
    Refusing to move with him,
    Refusing to open the door for him,
    Refusing to answer his calling….

    Nothing says ‘feminism’ like a good beating.

  6. ET says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 3:18 pm

    Allah did say women are deficient in the mind. 1400 years later…………

    • Infidel says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 8:38 pm

      Mohammed did. allah was just his sock puppet, putting his seal of approval on everything Mohammed wanted, like his daughter-in-law

  7. Angemon says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 3:46 pm

    However, only 32 per cent are agreeable to polygamy within their own marriage.

    Well, I guess this is good news for women in Malaysia – were their husbands more devout, more of them would be willing to let other women suffer instead of them…

  8. DHazard says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    For some Muslim women polygamy may be the best choice if their husbands insist on Shariah compliant divorces. At least they’ll be rid of Mr. “Special” a good chunk of the time.

  9. somehistory says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 4:01 pm

    Most likely the ones that said, “not my husband,” were seated nest to the creep when asked how they felt about it and didn’t want to seem eager to share with other women what these moslim women must endure.

    No woman in her right mind wishes to be shackled to the kind of creature who would beat her…for any “reason” or no reason at all. If a female is agreeable to being beaten because she ‘didn’t open a door,’ didn’t answer when called, left the house without him, or refused the opportunity of being sexually molested, she is insane with the mental condition of masochism.

  10. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 4:38 pm

    Notice how I. Omar and her ASSociates never touch this topic!

  11. gravenimage says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 5:13 pm

    Moderate Malaysia: 70% of women okay with other women’s husbands practicing polygamy
    …………………….

    Yet only 32% want to have to suffer it themselves. This is like wearing the veil–‘don’t rape me, rape that unveiled whore over there!’.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Beverly says

      Oct 20, 2019 at 6:48 pm

      I do too.

  12. Pays de fous says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    Since hypocrisy is punishable by death in their “religion”, 70%+ of them should be VERY slowly stoned to death. Does that make me an “islamophobe” or a Sharia judge? haha

  13. saturnine says

    Oct 20, 2019 at 10:40 pm

    Too funny. Almost like something from The Onion.

    Oh wait https://www.theonion.com/report-98-percent-of-u-s-commuters-favor-public-trans-1819565837

  14. Trick_or_Treat says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 5:31 am

    Yeah, that’s cousin Fatima, 2nd on the left. She’s just the spitting image of her mom, don’t ya reckon?

  15. toomanyhobbies says

    Oct 21, 2019 at 6:32 pm

    sure they are…. tell that to Mohamed who was likely killed by one of his 11 wife’s…

  16. TattooedMan77 says

    Oct 24, 2019 at 8:22 am

    And if Wife A(isha) complains then there is always an irate husband and relatives who will gladly stone her or douse her in acid.

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