There is also the problem of multiple marriages. You have to have a good reason by law to take another wife, but it's often easy to find a reason. Having more than one wife is a kindness if you are able to provide for them and treat them equally, in countries with over whelming poverty, no welfare system and high risk of being killed. But I haven't seen too many examples of this. It seems to be used more to legitimise a man dipping his wick in another woman. Lust, not love... ergo anti-Islam. Once a man sees this happen to his sister, and sees the heartbreak that taking another wife can cause, it often changes his mind about his right to take several wives. In good men this happens anyway.
We have a long way to go don't we? I was asked to go to a very dangerous place in Afghanistan and work as an adviser for the Minister for Women's affairs. The job of Minister lasts maximum 2 years, because every Minister has been killed by the time the 2 year mark passes. The way I am I may as well run around in Kandaher covered in tinsel shouting "I'm an infidel shoot me." So I declined. Can't help if I'm dead.
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