Wanting More Catmeat For Themselves

Members of Australia’s Muslim community are pushing for polygamy.

For the women’s sake, of course.

Members of Australia’s Islamic community believe polygamous marriages should be recognised to protect the rights of women.

Sheikh Khalil Chami of the Islamic Welfare Centre in Sydney’s Lakemba today said polygamous marriages, although illegal, existed in Australia and should be recognised.

“… Not an open door but in a way everyone will have control,” he told Triple J radio’s Hack program.

“It’s a bit hard, very difficult, but unless we face it, how (do) we overcome it?

“If you know there is law that will help you, there is community will help you. Why not? Why not change the law?”

Sheikh Chami said he was asked almost weekly to conduct polygamous religious ceremonies.

While he declined to perform such ceremonies, he said, other sheikhs did not.

“There are a lot of sheikhs here without any qualifications, without any place,” he said.

“They’ll conduct that marriage no problem at all.”

Islamic Friendship Association of Australia president Keysar Trad said recognising polygamous unions would help protect the rights of women in the relationship.

Mr Trad once proposed to another woman with the consent of his wife, Hanefa, but the second marriage did not proceed.

“I certainly would not have entertained the thought of having a relationship without a religious marriage and I thought the relationship with that person was developing to the stage where we had become too friendly with each other,” he told the program.

“Rather than entertain any thoughts of an affair I thought the only decent thing to do was to consider a proper commitment to that person.

I guess it didn’t occur to him that the real decent thing would be to not flirt with other women in the first place.

“This idea of plural sexual relationships, it is not so much frowned upon by society as long as these people don’t say we want a polygamous relationship.”

Mr Trad’s mother was a third wife in a polygamous relationship overseas and he said the women had admiration and respect for each other and supported each other.

“In a sense, it’s a compliment to the original partner that if he didn’t find marriage to be so good why would he go into it again,” he said.

“In a sense, he’s saying that his first wife has made life like heaven for him so he’s willing to provide the same service, love and support to a second woman.”

Can you believe this guy?

He said women were choosing to enter into such marriages.

Mrs Trad said many people in polygamous marriages kept it a secret – not only because it was illegal, but because society did not accept it.

“Tell you the truth, the hardest part of it (is) the way the others perceive it not what’s happened between me and him,” she said.

Asked if it was just about wanting sex with more women, she said: “Yeah it can be, but having it in the right way instead of having it in like go to prostitute or just date”..

Talk about wishing to have your cake and eat it (assuming the cake was not purchased here).

By the way, Keysar Trad is the spokesperson for the infamous Sheikh Taj Din Hilaly, someone not exactly known for protecting the rights of women.

4 thoughts on “Wanting More Catmeat For Themselves”

  1. Paul-Michael Bauer

    *shakes head*
    Wow. Just wow. And people think it’s possible to rationalize with them?

    Reminds me of that Saudi “Dr. Phil” admonishing young men to not beat their wives, but if they did, gently and never in the face. I’m sure that was for the sake of woman too.

  2. can we book him for promoting illigal activities ( including haram marriages… afterall illegal marriage is also haram, isn’t it ?)

    was just thinking the urdu word for such person.. whatz that.. “Haramzada”, right ? so shouldn’t all those bastard output of illegal marriage be tagged as Haramzada, as per islamic tradition…

  3. dumbledoresarmy

    You know what gets me? These …wretched excuses for men don’t seem to have the tiniest idea that they might be able to, oh, exercise a leetle bit of self control? They don’t seem to begin to imagine the idea of working hard to love, cherish, please and care for JUST ONE WOMAN, and see her blossoming in that loving care. Nah: with a lot of Muslim men, it seems it’s monkey see more banana, monkey want more banana, monkey GRAB. Meanwhile, plenty of Jewish and Christian men, and men of no religion, and men of other faiths, seem to be able to stick to just one wife, all their lives long. Sure, some are tempted. Some fall, and cheat, or take a mistress, or divorce and remarry. But lots manage to stay faithful. Monogamy is still the Gold Standard. Speaking as a wife who’s enjoyed 23 years of monogamous marriage, to a faithful husband, I CANNOT comprehend any woman so stupid as to be willing to share her man with ANYONE else, or to consent to be wife #2, #3, #4, or a ‘woman whom the right hand possesses’ (concubine), if she has any choice in the matter at all [of course, if she’s aged 7 and upwards, in a traditional Muslim family, she gets handed over to the guy whether she wants or not; she’s a thing, not a person]. I hope the Australian authorities have the guts to clamp down HARD: any Muslim caught conducting, or planning, or taking part in, a polygamous marriage, should be BOOTED OUT of the country, sans citizenship. BTW – Aboriginal Australians used to practise polygamy but so far as I know the women at least were very pleased to switch to Euro/Christian-style monogamy (you find stable monogamous Aboriginal couples on record as early as the mid-late 19th century).

  4. I think 2 issues are being conflated here – there’s polygamy and then there’s forced marriage. Thy are 2 separate things.

    Forced marriage – whether of minors or “adults” who are unable to have a say) is obviously wrong.

    As for polygamy here’s a couple of points:

    1. Judaism accepts polygamy
    2. Nobody seems to have asked any of the women in these marriages if they are happy – sorry Ms. “dumbledoresarmy” – you saying you can’t imagine someone wanting it doesn’t mean it’s not what other people want.
    3. If someone Muslim expresses himself badly that doesn’t actually nullify his argument. You might not like him saying his reasons for marrying a second wife, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. If a Jew badly expresses his love of Shabbat does that mean Shabbat is wrong?

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