A chilling piece in today’s Toronto Star. GTA’s secret world of polygamy:
Polygamy is happening in Toronto; it’s not common, but it’s happening,” said [Aly] Hindy, imam at Salahuddin Islamic Centre.
Hindy, hardly a stranger to controversy, is well known for his friendship with the family of Omar Khadr, the young Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and his outspoken views on the implementation of Islamic law. In the past five years, Hindy said he has officiated or “blessed” more than 30 polygamous marriages; the most recent was two months ago. Even some imams in the GTA have second wives, he added.
“This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion,” he said. “If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that.”
How much you wanna bet nobody forces him to choose?
[cross-posted to PWPL]
I believe this article also brings out the important point that Islam does not require a man to have more than one wife; it allows it. Nobody is asking this man to choose between the laws of Canada and Islam. The fact that he is trying to present it as such is rather telling.
How the hell is that ‘chilling’? Since when did polygamy become some evil, hellbound practice? Yeah, so I’m against it, but this is just a simple case of a man who will not accept the abolition of a religio-cultural practical that still occurs in many parts of the world.