"A recent review by four Government departments - the Treasury, the Work and Pensions Department, the Inland Revenue and the Home Office - has concluded that 1,000 men in the United Kingdom are now polygamists, although some say the figure is higher. What is more, the review found, a Muslim man can claim state support of more than £10,000 a year to keep his wives, if the wedding took place in one of those countries where polygamy is commonplace, such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia and across huge tracts of Africa. For example, a man can receive £92.80 a week in income support for wife number one, and a further £33.65p for each of his subsequent spouses. Therefore, if he has four wives - the maximum permitted under Islamic teachings - he can claim nearly £800 a month from the British taxpayer. Controversially, a polygamist is also entitled to more generous housing benefits and bigger council houses to reflect the large size of his family. He is also able to claim £1,000 a year in child benefit for each of his growing brood". (Daily Mail, link to full article below)
No, no, no and no. Stop trying to be so bloody PC and "oh well we had better let them do that because it's their way and we don't want to offend them". Correction - in this case it should be "RC" (religiously correct).
If you are a practising Muslim, it is not that I disrespect your beliefs. I think if there are elements of your religion that do not conflict with or alter in any way existing British Law, then you may privately practice them. In the UK, however, we do not allow people to have more than one wife, and we should not legally recognise more than one wife if your multiple marriages occurred in countries where bigamy/polygamy is legal. You should only be allowed to collect welfare based for one wife because it would otherwise not only goes against British Law, it goes against my sense of what's not messed up. I am not against cosmopolitan, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic societies - quite the contrary - but I am against bringing stuff from abroad that goes against the grain, that doesn't work here. If you come to England, you must learn to speak the language, you need to understand British culture and you must know and respect our law. If your religion says you can have more than one spouse, then do that in a country that allows it but the UK does not so it should not officially recognise more than one marriage and not pay out state benefits for three wives. Period.
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another case of giving better treatment to outsiders out of fear of upsetting people
Since I live in Utah (but am not from, thank God)--epicenter of "pligs" originating from within, rather than imported from without, what is generally thought of as "western culture"--I entreat: hold the line, as firmly as you can. Everyone knows how expensive it is to support ONE family, and because these families tend to be exceptionally insular and exist on the fringes, many abuses don't register, but they can't turn rocks into bread, and with many mouths per breadwinner, they will exploit whatever wobble there is in your system. Some such families here in Utah have been around a long time and have vast holdings, but still some of the wives and their children, who often live separately and at some distance, live in squalor, and the children are rarely properly educated (personally tragic and publically expensive). And do the "other" math: the many-women-per-man scenario (which favors old men over young ones) also necessitates forced purges of some of the younger men from the community at rather regular intervals (on obviously trumped-up theological grounds), boys in their teens who've been taught how to do absolutely nothing that will help them make their way in today's world of work, and if kindly people (often former polygamists) don't take them in, they're homeless wanderers.
Polygamy gives rise to so many problems and heartbreaks that it would be a project to enumerate them. No matter how respectful and fairminded one is trying to be, and how well that seems to work in principle, in practice it is entirely different.
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