Polygamy in Islam
From WikiIslam
Islam allows a man to marry four wives. Muslims claim that the reason why Allah allowed men to marry four wives is that men are killed in battle, thus resulting in women being in more numbers more than men. Here are some points that deal with Islam's defense of polygamy.
- Point 1 - World Population shows a surplus of men
Here's a breakdown of the world population according to CIA Statistics[1]
- World Population age group 15-64 years: 65.2% (male 2,152,066,888/female 2,100,334,722)
This means there are 51,732,100 extra males in the world at marriageable age.
Even the worst war in history did not kill off enough males to make polygamy justified. In WW2, 24 million "military" died, leaving still another 26 million spare men.[2]
- GENERAL POPULATION: women and men casualties: 1,986,370,000 (probably mostly women)
- Military casualties: 24,456,700
- Point 2 - Allah creates more males than females
The ratio of births is 105 males to 100 females. So, if Allah intends the polygamous marriages for war, then why is Allah putting so many extra males in the world that even the worst war in history didn't unbalance the other way?
- Point 3 - Men are better off married
Using the same Islamic reasoning, it should be that some women marry an extra man. Science has even proven that single men suffer more health and emotional problems than do single women. Men find it hard to live without a woman. (reference coming soon)
- Point 4 - Men die younger and leave more females in old age
Men also die younger, and if polygamy was an institution that really did have women's best interests in mind, then when a man with 4 wives dies, he leaves 4 elderly single women. This means now there are even more females than before, i.e. because males have died off; 65 years and over: 7.4% (male 213,160,216/female 270,146,721) but how many men would take on a 70 year old as an extra wife or two?
- Point 5 - Male domination is bad all round
The latest UNICEF study titled The State of the World's Children - 2007 [3] is a research study of women's oppression and overall quality of life of the family. It can be seen from this report that Islamic countries are faring the worst.
[edit] References
- ↑ Global Population Statistics - CIA.gov
- ↑ WW2 Casualties - Wikipedia.org
- ↑ The State of the World's Children - 2007 - PDF Report from UNICEF, hosted on BBC.com
