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Polygamy in Spain
Reader comment on item: Westerners Welcome Harems

Submitted by Gudrun Eussner (France), Nov 26, 2008 at 22:17

In Spain there are the Murabitun, mostly converts to Islam, financed by the Emirate of Sharjah, the king of Morocco, et al., who are trying to implement polygamy and the rest of sharia in Spain. Their leaders are mostly ex-communists and from the Izquierda Unida, the United Left.

They are well received by highranking Spanish government officials, their boss, Francisco Abdussalam Escudero, is consultant to PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

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Title	By	Date
more than one wife [268 words]	nadira	Sep 10, 2009 06:45
↔ I am itching to grow a beard [245 words]	true believer	Sep 11, 2009 08:32
Islam needs a revival [293 words]	Rekha	Jan 2, 2009 15:14
↔ "Islam" needs to find a religion of truth and love towards fellow mankind - Jesus Christ. [348 words]	kman	Jan 3, 2009 17:23
↔ To Rekha [116 words]	FFFFF	Feb 25, 2009 01:43
↔ Islam needs NO revival [86 words]	TruthAloneTruimphs	Mar 7, 2009 05:24
polygyny than what atleast 60% of American men do... [215 words]	kelly	Dec 25, 2008 00:11
↔ La La land [86 words]	pb	Dec 27, 2008 12:29
↔ New political streams needed. I demand polygamy for women! [106 words]	Lola	Dec 29, 2008 05:51
↔ polygamy definitely better than cheating [130 words]	hiena	Feb 14, 2009 04:59
One Final Point [120 words]	orange yonason	Dec 21, 2008 05:20
Similarity of Tolerance of Slavery with Tolerance of Polygamy [218 words]	Mishah Pipik	Dec 18, 2008 18:28
↔ Worldwide Islam [70 words]	Ralph Ekwall	Mar 26, 2009 21:00
polygyny [100 words]	Naheem Malik	Dec 16, 2008 18:15
↔ naheem-male arrogance is polygamy [85 words]	btilly	Dec 17, 2008 23:07
Power of Islam [36 words]	Nari	Dec 11, 2008 06:55
Polygamist marriages = consanguineous marriages = neurometabolic, nuerogentic, autosomal disorders, etc. [391 words]	jennifer solis	Dec 10, 2008 19:38
↔ nari-fornicating in a god's name [79 words]	btilly`	Dec 12, 2008 21:00
See Video of a Polygamous Muslim Man in Australia beating Jounalists when they ask him about his four wives.. [37 words]	Freedom	Dec 7, 2008 13:51
↔ Oh, PRICELESS !!!! [98 words]	kman	Dec 7, 2008 19:06
↔ KMAN [75 words]	btilly	Dec 8, 2008 20:08
↔ You called it!! I agree. [148 words]	kman	Dec 9, 2008 19:25
↔ "It's None Of Your Business!" -- Mohamed [95 words]	orange yonason	Dec 10, 2008 12:32
Quoting CNSNews ...Islamic nations against connecting Muslim atricities with "Muslims". [80 words]	kman	Dec 6, 2008 19:54
Harems are an inevitable sideshow, a symptom of the real problem [108 words]	Sully	Dec 6, 2008 10:08
↔ There is No god but God and that Muhammad is his Messenger [24 words]	abdul	Jan 5, 2009 18:52
Harems are better options [27 words]	Syed Kasim	Dec 2, 2008 23:21
↔ syed hasim [6 words]	btilly	Dec 3, 2008 23:20
↔ What a silly comment [47 words]	Tim	Dec 5, 2008 13:30
↔ Harems - easy way for men to sleep around in "legal" fashion. [90 words]	kman	Dec 5, 2008 21:33
↔ KMAN-it's called "shacking up" [10 words]	btilly	Dec 7, 2008 16:19
↔ Yeah, truth - that tickles my sense of humor ...good! [5 words]	kman	Dec 7, 2008 18:47
↔ Better for who? [65 words]	Don	Dec 8, 2008 08:08
↔ Read Between the Lines [14 words]	cynic2	Dec 8, 2008 09:38
↔ Re: Harems are better options [60 words]	Del Phantom	Dec 21, 2008 11:51
↔ Harems =Brothels [80 words]	Arlinda	Dec 22, 2008 06:41
↔ Islam and multiple wives [142 words]	Dan Barnes	May 9, 2009 05:02
Polygamy is the life [72 words]	Abu Hazir	Nov 30, 2008 18:53
↔ 13 year old wives are illegal in NZ [319 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Dec 1, 2008 20:17
↔ abu hazir the greedy [30 words]	btilly	Dec 1, 2008 20:48
↔ Polygamy is the life [12 words]	mo	Dec 3, 2008 17:12
↔ Abu a 'troll' ??? Could be, I hope so, but would not surprise me in the least if he were not. [126 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Dec 4, 2008 03:27
↔ Lust & Mind Control [144 words]	Rian	Dec 5, 2008 15:25
↔ I get here late, the others have all the fun with you [48 words]	kman	Dec 5, 2008 21:42
↔ In Kuwait you can tell... [172 words]	Don	Dec 8, 2008 08:20
As Winston Churchill said of Islam . . . [202 words]	orange yonason	Nov 30, 2008 18:35
↔ You forgot Israel [w/response] [86 words]	yuval Brandsteter MD	Dec 1, 2008 16:36
↔ You are right. [25 words]	Ynnatchkah	Dec 2, 2008 15:11
↔ I think I've answered your question numerous times... [40 words]	kman	Dec 5, 2008 21:52
↔ And, also, amongst the wisest. [115 words]	kman	Dec 5, 2008 21:59
↔ West's policy = present a glass jaw [312 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Dec 6, 2008 22:22
↔ @kman [33 words]	orange yonason	Dec 6, 2008 22:59
↔ Excellent - no less than Churchil himself - whew! [78 words]	kman	Dec 7, 2008 18:34
↔ You are correct ... [104 words]	kman	Dec 7, 2008 18:45
↔ Correction [16 words]	orange yonason	Dec 8, 2008 01:50
↔ kman - check who my first post was directed to again [74 words]	orange yonason	Dec 8, 2008 22:36
Unions non-traditional in the US [189 words]	John Blakemore	Nov 30, 2008 11:58
Monogamy is not eroding under the influence of Sharia [70 words]	Peter Herz	Nov 30, 2008 05:56
↔ The slippery slope [342 words]	kazander	Nov 30, 2008 18:12
↔ Q for Mr Pipes and Mr Herz: Doesn't our Bible approve Polygamy? [w/response] [93 words]	Morris Graham	Dec 1, 2008 11:11
↔ I agree with you in part Kazander [77 words]	Sully	Dec 5, 2008 00:48
↔ Morris Graham, traditions of men [237 words]	Infidel	Dec 8, 2008 22:32
↔ for Morris Graham on Biblical polygamy, [296 words]	Peter Herz	Dec 9, 2008 10:41
↔ Examples of monogamy in the Bible [92 words]	jennifer solis	Dec 11, 2008 22:00
↔ Polygamy is legal in Canada [27 words]	Hazem	Mar 30, 2009 09:58
Third World Sharia Law is poisoning Western Civilizaton [261 words]	Ron Kilmartin	Nov 29, 2008 18:54
on topic web radio [32 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Nov 29, 2008 04:51
WE ARE ALL HEADING TOWARD SLOW DEFEAT and DEATH UNDER ISLAM! [60 words]	TTS	Nov 28, 2008 22:30
↔ WAR OR ASSIMILATION [125 words]	PhiL	Nov 30, 2008 16:10
Incrementalism [41 words]	jennifer solis	Nov 28, 2008 16:36
Trouble and strife [445 words]	Rebecca Moulds	Nov 28, 2008 13:56
WHICH IS BETTER? [185 words]	Rawi	Nov 28, 2008 11:08
↔ Something is missing. [269 words]	Mary Connor	Nov 29, 2008 07:03
↔ Rawi, disobeys the Qur'an [76 words]	Infidel	Nov 29, 2008 12:17
↔ WHICH IS BETTER? [167 words]	Rawi	Nov 29, 2008 23:23
↔ Rawi flawed figures [183 words]	Jorge	Nov 30, 2008 19:05
↔ poly-anything... sure - but, you got to pay for it! [187 words]	Karl	Dec 2, 2008 05:39
Westerners welcome harems [132 words]	kim segar	Nov 28, 2008 09:16
What's wrong with polygamy? [86 words]	kazander	Nov 27, 2008 16:25
↔ hear hear [49 words]	Ari Zade	Nov 28, 2008 00:00
↔ kazander [58 words]	btilly	Nov 28, 2008 03:57
↔ Two Things Wrong With Polygamy [80 words]	AnneM	Nov 28, 2008 07:30
↔ There are 57 Islamic States...... "What's wrong with polygamy?" -- kazander [61 words]	Krista	Nov 28, 2008 09:45
↔ Polygamy [45 words]	Carla Bauer	Nov 28, 2008 13:11
↔ AnneM [180 words]	kazander	Nov 28, 2008 19:30
↔ Krista and Carla [191 words]	kazander	Nov 28, 2008 19:42
↔ polygamy - great idea for fat egos [316 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Nov 28, 2008 21:13
↔ not possible. [126 words]	havas	Nov 29, 2008 14:31
↔ What is wrong ? [139 words]	Rian	Nov 29, 2008 14:46
↔ Morals, values, ethics [35 words]	Krista	Nov 29, 2008 21:05
↔ Huh? [18 words]	kazander	Nov 30, 2008 03:40
↔ Greater Sucess Was Realized By The West Because The Bible-Based Monogamy Marriage Made It Possible [45 words]	AnneM	Nov 30, 2008 16:17
↔ Rebecca and AnneM: Then why the Polygamist Ranch wives were happy ? [55 words]	Vanessa Douglas	Dec 1, 2008 11:26
↔ Carla: Two Huge Problems in a Reverse Situation. [91 words]	Ibn Masud	Dec 1, 2008 17:21
↔ The loosening of any moral base will lead to many ultimate debaucheries ... [713 words]	kman	Dec 6, 2008 01:26
↔ success and west...... poles apart. :) [58 words]	ayatul islam	Dec 6, 2008 02:52
↔ There Is One Bride That Jesus Has, It Is The Christian Church [56 words]	AnneM	Dec 9, 2008 09:38
↔ ari zade-ONE man one woman is fair [104 words]	btilly	Dec 18, 2008 12:45
The Essence of Our Culture [45 words]	Charlie	Nov 27, 2008 13:54
Westerners regarding Harems [276 words]	Margaret Hood	Nov 27, 2008 12:18
Thank you D. Pipes. [43 words]	kman	Nov 27, 2008 02:21
Sharia does not REQUIRE polygamy, and we should not tolerate it. [67 words]	Norm Green	Nov 27, 2008 01:57
↔ Islam, polygamy,sharia law [170 words]	Laurie	Nov 28, 2008 06:30
↔ norm green aka muhammad [109 words]	btilly	Nov 29, 2008 08:16
↔ Norm Green, polygamy acceptable in Qur'an [59 words]	Infidel	Dec 4, 2008 15:15
↔ No polygamy neede in the Wester world [37 words]	Norm Green	Dec 5, 2008 20:23
↔ Polygamy Canada [161 words]	Rogerthat	Feb 16, 2009 10:15
.... guess who strikes again ? [169 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Nov 26, 2008 22:56
↔ Religion of Peace strikes again and again and again... [287 words]	Jaladhi	Nov 28, 2008 22:14
↔ ....deranged is incorrect [874 words]	the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan	Nov 30, 2008 05:00
↔ In India , Deputy CM of Haryana State converted to Islam inorder to take second wife.. [438 words]	Indian	Dec 7, 2008 13:35
⇒ Polygamy in Spain [70 words]	Gudrun Eussner	Nov 26, 2008 22:17
↔ Polygamy [54 words]	Zentrist	Dec 11, 2008 22:00
↔ So what? [27 words]	Edward	Jan 23, 2009 11:24
↔ Polygamy is better than same sex marriage [66 words]	John	Sep 18, 2009 07:42
↔ What Yeshua says, and what man-made religions say, are at odds. [171 words]	gordon weare	Sep 27, 2009 15:02
Harems [106 words]	Ayasha	Nov 26, 2008 21:41
Polygamy [114 words]	joe six-pack	Nov 26, 2008 21:38
polygamy? [10 words]	B. Soetoro	Nov 26, 2008 19:49
post name of judge [36 words]	kaw	Nov 26, 2008 16:27
↔ post name of judge [66 words]	Chancy	Apr 2, 2009 09:44
Mormons aren't polygamists [w/response] [158 words]	Jason Alder	Nov 26, 2008 15:53
↔ Mormons & polygamy [92 words]	pigpen	Nov 26, 2008 19:46
↔ Canda already allows polygamy [35 words]	Terry	Nov 27, 2008 11:15
↔ Mormons & Polygamy [271 words]	Jason Alder	Nov 28, 2008 10:10
↔ Mormons WERE polygamists, Jason [62 words]	jennifer solis	Nov 28, 2008 16:52
↔ Joseph Smith was a polygamist with 30 wives [96 words]	btilly	Dec 21, 2008 12:00
↔ The Mormon Church and Racism [546 words]	Jason Alder	Dec 22, 2008 13:59
Feminists mute [59 words]	Darryl	Nov 26, 2008 15:35
Why? [37 words]	Francesco Mangascià	Nov 26, 2008 14:29
↔ Why not ? [42 words]	Anne-Marie Delcambre	Nov 27, 2008 11:43
↔ Anne-Marie Delcambre, don't run away, answer [41 words]	Francesco Mangascià	Nov 27, 2008 17:23
↔ I am not feminist ! I am a jurist [78 words]	Anne-Marie Delcambre	Nov 29, 2008 05:27
↔ Anne-Marie Delcambre I knew you are not a feminist [100 words]	Francesco Mangascià	Nov 30, 2008 02:43
↔ The Feminists are crazy ! [76 words]	Anne-Marie Delcambre	Nov 30, 2008 20:23
May polygamy rule! [67 words]	Ari Zade	Nov 26, 2008 14:11
↔ Where does it end Mr. Zade? [260 words]	jkman	Nov 26, 2008 23:15
↔ Ms Zade, actually [17 words]	Ari Zade	Nov 27, 2008 23:52
↔ Moral decadence. [42 words]	M.D'Souza	Nov 28, 2008 17:27
↔ My apologies Ms. Zade [97 words]	jkman	Nov 28, 2008 21:54
Fascinating: Development or Degeneration? [115 words]	Stuart Teich	Nov 26, 2008 13:30
Vulnerability to Polygamy [37 words]	Douglas Van Devender	Nov 26, 2008 13:01
The Foundations are being destroyed [67 words]	Thomas F.	Nov 26, 2008 12:44
Asinine judgement [83 words]	Vijay	Nov 26, 2008 11:53
↔ The not so subtle influence of Islamic intimidation through ... [243 words]	kman	Nov 27, 2008 02:40
Flabbergasted [106 words]	Aaron Z Snyder	Nov 26, 2008 11:42
Polygamy in the U.S.? [34 words]	Stephen Merkel	Nov 26, 2008 11:30
↔ Unbelievable [168 words]	John Walker	Nov 28, 2008 23:35
↔ Why shouldn't the Polygamist be rewarded? [52 words]	Aneeta Kumar	Dec 1, 2008 11:04
↔ aneeta-greed is 4 wives [108 words]	btilly`	Dec 1, 2008 20:58
↔ Aneeta Kumar, Bible or Qur'an [48 words]	Infidel	Dec 2, 2008 14:01
↔ The Bible Gives Preference To One Man, One Woman Marriage [47 words]	AnneM	Dec 2, 2008 16:26
↔ AnneM Is Correct, ...But... [14 words]	orange yonason	Dec 8, 2008 22:45
↔ Aneeta Kumar - There Has To Be One Law For Everyone, That's why... [146 words]	orange yonason	Dec 8, 2008 23:20
↔ Torah never gives "green light" for polygamy, Orange Yonason [532 words]	jennifer solis	Dec 14, 2008 19:23
↔ Sorry, Jennifer, But You Are Mistaken [290 words]	orange yonason	Dec 16, 2008 12:29
↔ reply to Orange Yonason [533 words]	jennifer solis	Dec 18, 2008 00:59
↔ orange yonason, Torah laws [45 words]	Infidel	Dec 18, 2008 02:11
↔ Reply To Jennifer Solis [309 words]	orange yonason	Dec 18, 2008 21:58
↔ To Infidel [10 words]	orange yonason	Dec 18, 2008 22:20
↔ Why does Deut. 21:15 not use the Qal imperfect of "satam"? [710 words]	jenifer solis	Dec 20, 2008 02:55
↔ Jennifer Solis, Please Consult A More Knowledgeable Source [318 words]	orange yonason	Dec 21, 2008 00:15
↔ Jennifer Solis, More Problems With Your Interpretation [396 words]	orange yonason	Dec 21, 2008 03:57
↔ Agree to Disagree [87 words]	jennifer solis	Dec 22, 2008 00:36
↔ "Dikduk"? OH, my gosh, you are FUNNY, Orange Yonason [104 words]	jennifer solis	Dec 22, 2008 00:58
↔ ? ? ? ? [24 words]	orange yonason	Dec 22, 2008 19:20
↔ Agree To Disagree [198 words]	orange yonason	Dec 22, 2008 19:36
↔ Islam "agrees to disagree" - temporarily? [391 words]	jennifer solis	Dec 27, 2008 15:45
↔ Wrong assumption ? [29 words]	true believer	Jan 16, 2009 07:19
↔ Thats why [20 words]	true believer	Sep 11, 2009 07:14

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