legislation of gammies. Gammies are contractual arrangements between consenting adults. Therefore gammy becomes a fundamental human right. You may have 0, 1, 2, 5, 10, or 50 spouses (male or female) as long as these contracts are recorded with the state. Religious marriages should not be recognized by any state or nation UNLESS the marriages are recorded with the state or nation. In other words, you can get married in a cave or undersea if you so desire as long as it is consensual, witnessed, and recorded with your state or nation. What a state or nation must do however is to prosecute crimes. A crime committed by one individual against another be it a husband against a wife, a wife against a husband, or one wife against another wife. No nation can legislate love. It will be foolhardy to sanction polygammy but be mute over multiple mistresses or multiple masters. I think Malawi is pandering to zealots of other religions against Islam. I advise against it. Your gains in democracy will have been reversed if ever so slowly. Haruna. Courtesy: BBC News. Malawi move to ban polygamy angers Muslims Patricia Kaliati says men are unable to love more than one wife equally Muslims in Malawi have been angered by government plans to ban polygamy. A spokesman for the Muslim Association of Malawi told the BBC the proposed law would discriminate against the country's Muslim minority. He said with about 6% more women than men in Malawi, if polygamy were banned, many women would be left without a husband and become prostitutes. The gender minister said the ban was necessary to prevent women from being abused in polygamous relationships. She said problems occurred because men could not give their full attention to more than one woman. I have only one wife, my dear wife... but the moment they proceed with this, I will take a second wife Imran Shareef Muhammed Muslim Association of Malawi "When a man has two, three, four wives, they are not co-operative - one will be the loved one," said Gender Minister Patricia Kaliati. It had not been a hasty decision and there had been wide consultation about the matter, she said. But Imran Shareef Muhammed - secretary general of the Muslim Association of Malawi - disputed this. "The minister is lying - she didn't consult the Muslim community," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme. "We are totally rejecting it. There are also other ethnic groups [who practise polygamy] and they also totally reject this," he said. "If these people go ahead banning polygamous marriages it means many women will go into prostitution. "Every woman has the right to be under the shelter of a man." He said under Sharia law, polygamy was optional. "I have only one wife, my dear wife... but the moment they proceed with this, I will take a second wife," he said. Should the ban come into affect, those already in polygamous marriages would not be affected, but those who flout it could face imprisonment, the minister said. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤