Nafigullah Ashirov asserts that some 10% muftis of Russia have more than one wife
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 8, 2006
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Ashirov asserts that some 10% muftis of Russia have more than one
wife
“Interfax”
(16.01.2006) / HRWF Int. (16.01.2006)
–
the Council of Muftis of Russia Nafigullah Ashirov thinks that the practice of
polygamy had spread widely among the Muslim population of the country in the
past years.
‘Some ten percent
of male Muslims is a constant indicator. They have a dozen children by their
second and third wives’, the mufti said to Interfax and underlined that ‘this
threatens the anti-Islamists’.
According to
Ashirov, there are some ten percent polygamists among Russian muftis. Ashirov
himself announced his willingness to take the second wife. He added, however,
that ‘not all women would agree to marry a
polygamist’.
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