For a woman to take to social media to endorse and celebrate the fact that her husband is marrying a second wife and request God’s blessing for the marriage is pretty shocking. Mostly, we would expect her to be serving the divorce papers or be throwing unkind words to the new woman or her husband.
But she has been lauded as a true Muslim who understands that her religion permits her husband to marry a second, third or fourth wife if he desires. And they say what she should do as a Muslim woman is to celebrate this.
Of course it’s beyond pathetic in fact this exposes the intrinsic bigoted frame of religion (here Islam), allowing men to marry as many as four wives and denying women the same privilege. And it can be argued that Christianity permits this too.
Interestingly, several other Nigerian Muslims tweeted in support of this calling the woman’s tweet courageous when they should rather be condemning the doctrines which make her tweet even relevant.
If something is not right to be done to a man then it should not be right to be done to a woman irrespective of whatever absurd philosophy or theology that sanctions it.
See what Twitters had to say to the woman’s tweet:
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