Ethics

Defending Traditional Marriage

By Ed Brayton

IBN reports:

A Nigerian court said an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives should be released from jail after he was held for failing to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of the women, his lawyer said.

The authorities in central Niger state had charged Mohammed Bello with "insulting religious" creed and "unlawful marriages" after local chiefs and Muslim leaders gave him a September 7, 2008 deadline to comply with sharia, Islamic law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives.

They're just defending traditional marriage against those damn liberals who think marriage should be something other than a man and four women.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 20, 2008 (boomark / email).