“One wife is enough”: Al Azhar Grand Imam calls for reform of polygamy
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The head of Al Azhar, the center of Sunni Islamic learning, has called for the swift reform of the practice of polygamy in Muslim societies, describing it as an institution that oppresses women, in comments that are likely to anger ultraconservatives in Egypt. "Those who say that marriage must be polygamous are all wrong and I say this on my own responsibility,” said Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb. “The Koran states that one wife is enough.” "Women represent half of society,” he added in his program, The Sheikh of Al-Azhar, which is broadcast on Egyptian satellite television every Friday. “If we don't care for them it's like walking on one foot only.” In recent years, the issue of polygamy has emerged as a hot button topic, with pages on social networking sites that are run by women advocating for the acceptance of polygamy to eliminate spinsterhood in Egypt, as well as numerous fatwas or religious edicts supporting the practice being issued by Salafi religious scholars.
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