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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 752494" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=181305" target="_blank">(JPost)</a> — <strong>A group of young Saudi men have launched a campaign to convince Saudi men of the unappreciated virtues of polygamy. </strong></p><p> It is a response to young Saudi women uninterested in joining a polygamous marriage, older Saudi women divorcees and Saudi men unable or unwilling to support more than one woman. The campaign seeks to counter what Saudi traditionalists see as an increasingly negative stigma attached to polygamy.</p><p> <strong>Campaigning under the slogan “Prophet of Four”, a reference to the Islamic edict allowing men to marry up to four wives, the group calls for every Saudi man to take four wives so as to rid the country of so-called ‘spinsters’, a term referring to unmarried Saudi women over the age of 30.</strong> Launched at the start of Saudi Arabia’s ‘marriage season’, the campaign’s Facebook page has already garnered a few hundred supporters.</p><p> Saudi Arabia’s strict patriarchal guardianship system requires all women to be represented by men, either their husband, father or son, in all public and official spheres of life. Women are not allowed to drive, inherit, divorce or gain custody of children, and cannot socialize with unrelated men.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 752494, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=181305"](JPost)[/URL] — [B]A group of young Saudi men have launched a campaign to convince Saudi men of the unappreciated virtues of polygamy. [/B] It is a response to young Saudi women uninterested in joining a polygamous marriage, older Saudi women divorcees and Saudi men unable or unwilling to support more than one woman. The campaign seeks to counter what Saudi traditionalists see as an increasingly negative stigma attached to polygamy. [B]Campaigning under the slogan “Prophet of Four”, a reference to the Islamic edict allowing men to marry up to four wives, the group calls for every Saudi man to take four wives so as to rid the country of so-called ‘spinsters’, a term referring to unmarried Saudi women over the age of 30.[/B] Launched at the start of Saudi Arabia’s ‘marriage season’, the campaign’s Facebook page has already garnered a few hundred supporters. Saudi Arabia’s strict patriarchal guardianship system requires all women to be represented by men, either their husband, father or son, in all public and official spheres of life. Women are not allowed to drive, inherit, divorce or gain custody of children, and cannot socialize with unrelated men. [/QUOTE]
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