Over 400 years ago polygamy was declared illegal in England and Wales.
Weakened by multiculturalism and its evil twin political correctness - along with the European Union's ludicrous anti-indigenous Human Rights Legislation - British Ministers now find it is "too politically sensitive" to curb a thousand muslim men (and counting) living in the UK -- guilty of polygamy -- and using their multiple wives to milk the British benefit system. Just more evidence that hundreds of years of British laws and culture are continually being tossed in the legal and cultural dustbin as a result of the rampant muslim colonization/Islamisation of Britain. Perhaps these dhimmified ministers also want to abide by Britain accepted Sharia Law?
"Ministers decided not to force through plans to cut benefits to hundreds of polygamous families in the UK after officials advised that the move would be too politically sensitive."LINK
Too bad these same ministers didn't spend more time addressing the crisis of 3000 young muslim women who fall victim to forced marriages per year in Britain OR recall the devastation and humiliation that young model,Sahar Daftary, felt when she discovered her new husband already had a wife (plus an ex-wife) & children. Sahar plunged 150' to her "suspicious" suicidal death.
Apparently the ministers prefer to pander to greedy over-sexed muslim males.
"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. "
A nurse, out on the frontlines of the "muslim enriched" Tower Hamlets area of East London, tells of polygamy being commonplace there:
An NHS district nurse working in Tower Hamlets, East London, explained that it was now commonplace. He said he knew of a Bangladeshi-born male patient with two wives and 13 children aged between three months and 15 years. 'The women have council flats, each paid for by the local authority. The elderly husband collects benefits for both women, who are in their 30s. The wives speak very little English, but they are in and out of each other's flats and are friends. 'On more than one occasion when I have been called to the flats to give treatment to the old man, I have heard them talking in the kitchen and even taking each other's children to the park.'
The male nurse said this family set-up was not unusual. 'I know of others that comprise of one husband, a number of wives and numerous children.
'It is not difficult to conclude that if there were no state benefits, a man could not afford to live like this, especially here in London. 'The system is at fault. The men want more wives for their sexual pleasure, but also because it is lucrative.'
Just like the plethora of killer diseases that have been brought into Britain via immigration from Third World countries, undoubtedly the British government would have rathered the public be kept in the dark regarding the plundering of taxpayer's coffers by muslim polygamists. Instead it is clear that the British taxpayer (who would be guilty of a crime for having multiple spouses) is subsidizing muslim polygamy and muslim men are allowed to finagle the system.
Taxpayer financed muslim POPULATION JIHAD continues on warp speed in the UK.
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These women are not "wives"...polygamy is illegal in the UK...they are single mothers/slappers/chavs..whatever phrase is appropriate to your description of women who produce many children to a man they merely hook up with.
Posted by: Elizabeth | February 26, 2009 at 02:37 PM
This is plain cowardice. Just pull up each polygamist, castrate him or carry out a vasectomy and be done with these shameless Muslim males. Throw their religious sanctions to the Thames and cover them under common civil law. No Dhimmitude. Strictly screen all Muslim immigrants to avoid this malaise from festering to a terminal cancer.
Posted by: PK | February 28, 2009 at 01:02 AM