Religion & Law

Nigerian Man Arrested with 86 Wives and 86 Lawyers
Bello Masaba, a Nigerian man, is defending himself before a Sharia court after his arrest for having 86 wives and 170 children. Islamic law allows only four wives. Worse yet, he now has 86 lawyers — one for each wife — as his attorneys defend him from punishment and a rash of divorces...

Saudi Religious Police Official Arrested for Excess of Wives
A 56-year-old official in the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice had been arrested for exceeding the wife limit in the Jazan province of Saudi Arabia. Under Sharia law, a man can have as many as four wives but the official had accumulated six wives...

Love and Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ... And Marriage ...
Nigerian man arrested for refusing to divorce 82 of his 86 wives. (The authorities want him to get down to a sharia-approved four spouses.) He also has something like 170 kids. I'm not sure what the authorities think they're going...

Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives
Nigerian man to divorce 82 wivesA Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.With 86 wives and over 170 children, I am wondering if Mr Abubakar has got a television?

Nigerian Sharia Court Arraigns Man With 86 Wives For Insulting Religion
In Nigeria on Monday, an Upper Sharia Court in Minna arraigned 84-year old Mallam Abubakar Bello Masaba on charges of insulting or inciting to contempt of religious creed, deceitfully inducing belief of lawful marriage, and marriage ceremony without lawful marriage...

Case dismissed: Lord Chief Justice lays down law on Sharia
Britain's most senior judge declared last night that there was no place for Sharia courts in this country and insisted that all residents were governed by the laws of England and Wales.

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