The latest example of one unelected elite bending the laws of our country to benefit another small but extremely vocal elite was revealed last week.
Although bigamy - i.e being married simultaneously to more than one person - is illegal in the UK, the law only applies if you happen to be non-Muslim.
Muslim men who have grabbed their allotment of four wives under Sharia Law will, apparently, not only be allowed to stay married to them but be able to get the rest of us to pay for them if necessary. That means not just getting a tax allowance for each one but receiving benefits to pay for their accommodation and to feed them should the need arise. Trying to put a positive spin on this obsequious, discriminatory and extremely dangerous act, a Government lackey assured us that everything would be alright because " They will only be allowed to have the wives if the marriage took place in a country where polygamy is legal".
Well, since Islam takes the words and action of the Prophet as the template for its laws, that basically means every country in the Middle East and all of those in Asia, including Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia, where Islam holds sway.
As usual, however, the people that we rely on to administer our legal system and ensure its universal fairness haven't looked beyond the ends of their collective nose. More pertinently, they haven't bothered to investigate the age of consent or how and when marriages are contracted under Islamic law.
In this country the age of consent for sex is 16. The legal age for marriage without the consent of a parent or guardian is still 21.
The same is not true under Islam. Taking their lead from Mohamed who, if history is to be believed, was betrothed to his wife when she was 6 - yes, you read it correctly SIX - and married her when she was seven or nine depending on which version you believe, Muslims generally consider females ready for marriage once they have had their first menstrual period. This means that in some countries, such as Iran, the LEGAL age of consent is nine years old. In many others it varies from between 12 to 14.
To be fair, the age of consent in a thoroughly modern country like Holland is 12 , but only when the two people involved are both of the same age. A forty year old having sex with a twelve year old would still be considered a paedophile. However, under Sharia law, there is nothing to stop a 70 year old man having sex with his legally-contracted bride, even if she is only 12 at the time.
By legalising bigamy for Muslim men, we are effectively also condoning legalised paedophilia. I can't see anything to stop some Iranian heading back to the old country, picking himself out a nice child bride and then bringing her, perfectly legally, back to the UK.
As long as he has contracted the marriage legally in Iran and managed to obtain the right papers for her can you imagine any craven police officer or social worker demanding to know her true age? Of course they won't, for fear of being branded racist. Even if they did discover she was under age by English Law, how long would it take for some ambulance chaser to turn up and claim that our Laws breach the newly-weds' human rights?
Imagine as well the opportunities this relaxation of the law opens up for our own home-grown legions of kiddie-fiddlers. Once one of them has worked out how to go about things, I think we can expect a sudden surge in the number of middle age men who suddenly experience a personal epiphany and convert to Islam. The planes to Islamabad, Jakarta and all points east will be packed to the gills with new pilgrims flying off not to pay homage to their newly found Prophet but to bag themselves a couple of nice, fresh child brides.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
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