Polygamy and the problems of having too many children

 George Banna, M. Bitar

            We do not find it necessary to elaborate on the rhetorical statements aimed at justifying the pursuit of equality between men and women, as equality is self-evident and does not require delving into the seas of proof and justification!

  Women in this region are burdened by the meeting of ancient heritage with modernity. They are still traditionally considered servants in the house during the day and slaves in bed at night or whenever the man desires, While modernity has enabled women to practice men’s professions, meaning they have become teachers, doctors, or other professions, they have nevertheless remained vulnerable to the erosion of their dignity through polygamy and similar concepts and practices that diminish their human rights and turn them into commodities to be bought and sold in official marriage contracts, and not only in other forms of slavery such as the slavery of what is called temporary marriage or Misyar marriage and others of about 16 types of forms of slavery.

The woman is ostracized, rejected, and considered deficient in intellect and religion, and a corrupter of prayer, She is controlled by a sick, neurotic, male mentality that distorts her and diminishes her social and life role, turning her into a mere “object” necessary for marriage and procreation, Her sexual needs are not acknowledged, as they are monopolized by the male. Therefore, she is circumcised based on the mistaken belief that circumcision modifies her sexual needs, Where is the logic or right in modifying her sexual needs? Why isn’t the male’s sexual need modified by castration, for example? Here, religion insists on securing the male’s sexual needs through polygamy, which supposedly fulfills his sexual needs during the menstruation of one of his wives, even though intercourse with a menstruating woman is possible, as narrated by one of the Mothers of the Believers, The monopolization of sexual needs by the male is considered a type of male neurosis that negates the humanity of the woman and of himself as well, and negates love, turning it into an animalistic practice.

To defend polygamy and other disastrous practices, a group of pseudo-men of this world and religion claim that, statistically, polygamy is not that disastrous, that it is very rare and limited to some isolated cases and to some small segments of society!!!!!!, which constitute 30% of marriages in rural Damascus, for example, and the spread of polygamy in Upper Egypt may be similar, Therefore, it is said that this small minority cannot cause a significant social imbalance, despite the fact that polygamy is a debilitating phenomenon because it is animalistic, in addition to the impossibility of being just between wives, as advised by the author of the verse, “Marry those who please you of women,” etc.! Furthermore, achieving justice does not justify polygamy, and polygamy is not a marginal phenomenon, as the 30% figure is not marginal, and even the fact that the percentage is marginal does not justify the insistence of religious men on polygamy, which represents an animalistic, not a social, state, meaning that it strips those who practice it of their social and human nature.

  Some see polygamy as an expression of a suffocating schizophrenia of the principle of equality, because it prevents multiple husbands, as Nadine Al-Badeer demanded, It is a legitimate privilege to practice bestiality, and whatever its statistical status, it remains antisocial and despised of humanity in general and of men in particular, who are considered disturbed and psychologically ill even if they are forced to be satisfied with one wife, Even the one wife remains deprived of dignity by a masculinity that is very different from manhood.

The masculinity of the Bedouin is charged with violence and the desire for domination and possession, Polygamy was originally a result of those contemptuous concepts and not a cause of them, Imam Al-Ghazali wrote under the title “Mention of the Lives of Women and Their Customs” the following: I know that women are of ten types, and the description of each one is like some animals, The first is like a pig, the second is like a monkey, the third is like a dog, the fourth is like a snake, the fifth is like a mule, the sixth is like a scorpion, the seventh is like a mouse, the eighth is like a bird, the ninth is like a fox, and the tenth is like a sheep,The sheep was the final touch for Imam Al-Ghazali, the destroyer of philosophy and the first man of decadence, who was not content with rejecting the dog-woman, but rather rejected every masculinity that believes in the human value of women and their role as a mother, as a nurturer, and as a partner, How can a crushed, rejected, and despised woman perform the task of a loving, affectionate mother when she does not feel the presence of anyone who loves her, respects her, and is affectionate towards her and for her.

This abnormal, pathological situation has generally led to psychological disturbances and family breakdowns that are reflected on girls and boys, distorting them and emptying them of human feeling, The male son becomes more distorted than the crushed girl, This situation exposes the female and male to emotional emptiness and to the animalization of sex and the problems of impotence, frigidity and frequent divorce that follow, Sex without love is animalization. Correct sex cannot be practiced except within the framework of correct love,Sex in brothels is deficient, and what it lacks is love and creative affection that accompanies true sexual desire.

The people who talk the most about women’s rights and gender equality are the Salafists from various religious schools, Their throats are nearly bursting with cries of anguish over women and their rights, and their tears have turned into rivers and seas as a result of their obsessive weeping for women, In reality, we see them treating women as something shameful, to the point that their presence is considered an obstacle to prayer   : “A dog, a donkey, or a woman interrupts a person’s prayer.” And when a woman leaves the bed of the beast, angels will pursue and curse her until she returns, humbled and submissive, She is the absolute victim, and the man is nothing but an absolute deviant, sick, deficient in intellect and religion, emotionally, morally, and humanly handicapped, and intellectually backward… a sadist, incapable of imagining the situation of wives in the event of polygamy, He considers wives a kind of captive property, prostitutes without wages except for the vague reward of God, Imagine, may God protect you, this earth when it is transformed into paradise according to the visions of Sheikh Al-Muhsini, and on earth as in heaven, meaning that each man’s share will be 70 A woman, so how can they be fed and sexually satisfied, knowing that a woman’s sexual need is higher than a man’s, so who benefits from polygamy? Especially in communities that suffer from overpopulation and a disproportion between economic growth and human growth, i.e. programmed for a program of rising poverty and hunger!

Every attempt to humanize the treatment of women or the relationship between women and men is met with fierce resistance from pseudo-men of the world and religion, Sometimes, the idea of ​​women being treated as contrary to the text, Sharia, Hadith, and interpretation is presented as an imitation of the innovations of the infidel West, as if the West is the one that orders the beating of women to discipline them, allows them to be divorced three times, imposes the hijab and niqab on them, and turns them into an “object” to be bought and sold, The West is the one that allows polygamy, the West is the one that established Sharia courts and allowed temporary marriage and pleasure marriage, and the West is the one that eliminated the name of any female candidate in any election, In short, the West is the “scapegoat” that pseudo-men of religion and the world cannot do without!

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