Christian Marriage: A Great Witness to the World

Since childhood, as a Muslim boy, I was taught that Christian marriage lacked boundaries, exposing itself to every kind of immorality. In their teachings about marriage, all mullahs (Muslim clergy) introduced the marriage system in Islam as the best model for humanity and the Christian marriage as the opposite extreme. 

My 32 years of Islamic knowledge on Christian marriage proved untrue and unjust when I found myself in a church in Istanbul, Turkey, and saw first-hand the relationships of Christian couples. I will never forget the depth of amazement I went through in my conversations with these Christians and when I heard the teachings of the Gospel. One day in a conversation with a husband and wife, who were in their fifties, I was struck by their lovely and humble attitudes towards one another. As the wife spoke, the husband looked respectfully at her, showing a sincere gesture of respect in acknowledging her that this was her time, and lovingly waiting for her to finish her comments without interrupting her. His attitude was an eye-opening lesson to one who was from a pious Islamic background. I had not found such respect in the entire Quran and Muhammad’s biography toward any Muslim woman. I thought at the time that this wonderful family value was a product of Western modern thought. I never considered that it could be from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. However, in reading its words, I learnt new truths from its pages:

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it (Ephesians 5:25).

Whereas the Quran says:

Take in thine hand a branch and smite therewith [your wife], and break not thine oath … (Q.38:44).

The Gospel says:

Whoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is put away commits adultery.  (Mark.19:9).

Compare this with the teaching of the Quran that says:

And when thou (Muhammad) saidst unto him (Zeyd, Muhammad’s adopted son) …: Keep thy wife to thyself, and fear Allah. And thou didst hide in thy mind (your desire to Zeyd’s wife) that which Allah was to bring to light, and thou didst fear mankind (who would see your desire to someone else’s wife as immoral) whereas Allah hath a better right that thou shouldst fear Him. So when Zeyd had performed that necessary formality (of divorce) from her, We (Allah) gave her unto thee in marriage, so that there may be no sin for believers in respect of wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have performed the necessary formality (of release) from them. The commandment of Allah must be fulfilled (Q.33:37). [Descriptions in brackets are not part of the Quran but are in accordance with  the Islamic traditions and commentaries.]

This verse is saying that Muhammad desired to have  Zeynab (the wife of his adopted son, Zeyd) as his own wife.  So Allah (his god) rushed to bring his desire into reality, thus encouraging Zeyd to divorce his wife for the sake of Muhammad’s desire. After the divorce, Muhammad immediately took her as his wife.

We can see that Muhammad uses marriage primarily as an opportunity for fleshly desires and disregards the loving heart of the true God in marriage.  The God of the Gospel ordained a one man and one woman union from creation, where spouses may experience edifying relationships with each other; teaching their children based on this love and unity, forming pillars in building healthy societies.

Islam considers the abuse of spouses and polygamy as piety, where Christianity considers it immoral. Having more than one wife, or disregarding the Christian marital values, which is prevalent in the Western countries, are the direct result of refusing God’s love; they have nothing to do with piety and righteousness, or with freedom, as many in the West claim. These ungodly attitudes, rather, are motivated by the love of self that encourages the misuse of power for selfish gain and is a threat to healthy relationships within a family.

God’s desire for marriage is for the husband and wife to practice their freedom in the context of being one in body, mind and spirit.  As in a body, all members support and uphold each other, and none discriminates against any other.  The Gospel puts this relationship in a wonderful way saying:

[T]hat there not be division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another (1Corinthians 12:25).

In a similar manner, a husband and wife should truly be dependent on each other, having wholehearted interest in one another. One’s individual interests should not be at the cost of the other's, disregarding his or her rights as redundant or worthless. They must love each other completely; not fifty per cent, not eighty five per cent but one hundred per cent.

Love is the fundamental tool put forward by God from eternity as a creative and fruitful means for establishing a united family with a united hope. In a similar way,  united families will, in turn, be able to establish united communities and nations. For this reason, love surpasses every other thing in God’s philosophy for marriage. Godly love destroys the separating walls between a husband and wife (as with any other relationships) and leads them to a sincere unity in spirit and flesh. As the Gospel says:

For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh (Matthew 19:5).

Alienation from the marital values of the Gospel produces unfriendliness, fractions, rivalries, conflicts and separation. If a husband and wife wish to have effective values for the establishment of a joyful and loving family, they will find no greater source than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It truly is a blessing.

Allah the Opportunist and the Veiling of Women

The veil in Islam is described as protecting women’s modesty, so that they do not tempt men or bring dishonor to their families. Is this what it means in practice?

For about 14 years, from the birth of Islam in Mecca until the rise of Islam as an authoritarian religion in Medina, Muslim women were walking uncovered and Allah did not worry about their modesty or their families’ honor. He only stepped in after 14 years, when Muhammad and his pious followers attacked Jews and Pagans, and slaughtered their men, but spared their wives and girls for themselves as wives and slaves. Before Muhammad came, the Jews of Medina were 75% of its population. Some Jewish men were forced to flee Arabia but the others were all killed. Imagine the number of Jewish women and girls that were left behind for Muhammad and his followers! Added to this were the many pagan girls and women whose tribes did not want to follow Islam and lost their men fighting the Muslims. The resulting abundance of women for an inexperienced leader, Muhammad, and his followers created great disarray. Wherever he went or invaded he made himself overridingly busy with women. He even slept with a 17 years old Jewish woman called Safiyah in the same night after her husband was beheaded in front of her own eyes. Her father and brothers had also been killed by Muhammad’s order in another massacre a few months before this (Muhammad’s biography by Ibn Hisham, p.755ff; Ibn Sa’d, p.77f).

Not only non-Muslim women and girls were victims of the pious followers of Allah: Muslim women were too. We read in chapter 33 of the Quran of how Muhammad fell in love with his own daughter-in-law, Zeynab (the wife of his own adopted son), and eventually got her to become his own wife. Antoher time, he called a Muslim girl to his bed, slept with her at night, did not like her body so sent her back to her home the following morning. As a result, he gave the right to every Muslim man to check the private parts of a Muslim girl first before marrying her. As an ex-Muslim, I know how disgusted Muslim girls are by this practice, but in the meantime pious Muslims still honor this teaching.

Such abuses were all fine according to Allah and did not bother his so-called philosophy of modesty, as long as everything was according to the desires of his beloved prophet, Muhammad. Since Allah was being created in Muhammad’s own image, this god was ready to do everything for Muhammad’s pleasure. He revealed to Muslims in the same chapter 33 that Muhammad could not be called a father to Muslims but his wives were like mothers to them. In other words, Muslims were forbidden to take any of Muhammad’s abandoned wives as wives for themselves, but Muhammad had right to take any of their wives if he desired. This was the kind of example Muhammad set for his followers; he had more rights than other. Others did not have the same rights toward Muhammad as Muhammad had to them. Despite all this, Allah still calls him the best model in the Quran: In Allah’s messenger, you have a fine model… (Q33:21).

Every Muslim leader or scholar believes that Allah’s presence was more active in the time and life of Muhammad than for any other leader before or since. Allah never left Muhammad alone: he was present in everything he did in order to present him as a good role model to his surroundings. What was done to women by Muhammad was all done in the presence of Allah and by his permission. It was in Muhammad’s time that Allah revealed his so-called eternal and practicable words in the Quran, saying that Muhammad’s wives were like mothers to Muslims. Despite the presence of Allah, and his eternal Quran and Muhammad being the best role model, one of Allah’s pious followers had an affair with Muhammad’s most beloved wife, Aisha, who was called a mother to him. In other words, the Islamic cover for protecting the modesty of women did not work despite the active presence of Allah and his using his best man Muhammad. Why? Because Muhammad himself was not able to live according to the law of covering women: so he legitimized that boys had right to check the bodies of girls with whom they wanted to get married, exposing the modesty of women to threat again. Muhammad had always an exemption so that men could break the law. Now, Muslims want to keep the modesty of their women via covering them up. What nonsense!

Some of Muhammad’s own followers, who were exhausted and unable to correct Muhammad, asked him to force ladies to stay at home (Q33:33) or to cover themselves fully if they went out. They were not able to restrain Muhammad and therefore showed the edges of their swords to the already depressed women. He did not listen to them immediately, but after things got really unbearable, his Allah stepped in and decided to protect women’s honor and therefore decreed veiling. Interestingly, Allah revealed his decree in the same chapter where he allowed Muhammad to have his daughter-in-law as his wife, or any other women he desired to have, as recorded in chapter 33:

O Prophet! Speak to your wives and to your daughters, and to the wives of the faithful, that they let their veils fall low.  Thus they will not be known more easily, and they will not be affronted (Q33:59).

In the verses 60-62 of the same chapter, Allah says this is his way, and anyone (especially non-Muslims) who comes against this must be slaughtered.

Can you imagine that despite such a harsh decree there is a way provided for Allah’s pious followers to satisfy their fleshly desires at the cost of women’s modesty?

We learn from the Qur’an itself that women are not compelled to guard their private parts from their fathers, father-in-laws, their own sons or stepsons, brothers, nephews, slaves or even their sterilized male attendants.  They also can show their private parts to children who have not yet shown any interest in women’s nakedness:

And speak to the believing women that they refrain their eyes, and observe continence; and that they display not their [private parts and] ornaments, except those which are external; and that they throw their veils over their bosoms, and display not their ornaments, except to their husbands or their fathers, or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons, or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male domestics who have no natural force, or to children who note not women’s nakedness. And let them not strike their feet together, so as to discover their hidden ornaments.  And be ye all turned to God, O ye Believers! that it may be well with you (Q24:31).

This Arabic verse of the Qur’an uses the word “foroujahonna” which clearly implies the private and sexual parts of women.  The word “foroujahonna”, which is missing in translation, comes before the word “ornaments”.  Rather than translating the exact meaning of the Arabic word in this specific passage of the Quran, the majority of translations use much milder words. In English, words such as ‘private parts’ or ‘continence’ are used. The Noble Quran’s English translation includes the “private parts”, but places them inside brackets, confusing readers so that they will not understand that this could be a part of the Quran itself.  Moreover the word “farj” (the singular of the term “foroujahanna”) is used in reference to Mary, Jesus’ mother, in Q66:12, referring to her private parts:  the angel Jibril (Gabriel) is said to have breathed into Mary’s vulva when allegedly causing Jesus to be conceived.

What is this bizarre covering which Muhammad and the god of his image, Allah, have created for people? What are these two extremes: On one hand, Allah forces women to cover themselves in order to protect themselves from tempting men, but on the other hand, he exposes their nakedness to their male relatives? Isn’t this mocking women? Isn’t this opportunist? Isn’t this saying that even a veil is not able to protect women’s modesty?

How will people be able to escape sexual immorality if Allah’s prophet was not able to stay away of it, or if the Qur’an teaches women to neglect protecting their private parts from most male relatives and others close to them? Consider a city or village whose population is only made up of relatives and others who are mentioned in the above verse. If women in the streets of that city or village were encouraged to follow the teaching of the Qur’an, how would she be looked upon? What kind of moral message would the children of the families from that village or city take out to the rest of the world?  Wouldn’t the boys of that village feel justified in raping their family members or going to rape the women and girls of other villages?

All the evidence points to the fact that Muhammad was not ready in his heart to protect women’s modesty. If his heart was ready, he would not have needed a veil to protect women’s honor; his heart was not ready and for this reason he was not able to find a real tool for combating the urge to immorality. Muhammad, therefore, has not left a genuine legacy for Muslims to protect the modesty of their women through the veil.

Islamic history provides great testimony of veil’s uselessness. So many ladies have been stoned and hanged over 14 centuries of Islamic history because Muhammad’s decrees were impractical. Pious Muslims ignore this fact and are hesitant in putting an end to Muhammad’s mistakes. Instead they march ahead to establish their Islam everywhere and bring dishonor to all women in the world with their veil.

Daniel Shayesteh

Why Are Committed Muslims Trying to Get Polygamy Legalized in the West?

Committed Muslims in the West have declared polygamy in Islam as grounded in science and humanitarianism in order to make it more acceptable. These Muslims claim that it is both scientific and humanitarian for a man to have more than one wife when the population of women is greater than men. Do they really believe their solutions are scientific or humanitarian? No. They are saying this because they know there are so many people who simply will not trouble themselves to consider whether or not this is based on truth but will simply believe whatever may seem pleasing or enticing at the moment, thus enabling the establishment of the Islamic agenda in the West with their support. This is an opportunity that committed Muslims will not miss.

Why aren’t these Muslims willing to call it scientific or humanitarian for a woman to marry two or more men when the male population exceeds that of the female population in a society? Why won’t they allow Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men, even though Muslim men are allowed to marry non-Muslim ladies? Why do they kill Muslim girls for loving and marrying non-Muslim boys? They are oppressed or killed because Allah’s declaration regarding polygamy seeks only to please the fleshly desires of Muslim men and to eradicate all non - believers, which undermines every allusion to anything scientific or humanitarian.

The United Nations’ 2005 gender statistic (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/ww2005/tab1a.htm) proves that the population of men in most Islamic countries is typically greater than that of the female population. What is the scientific solution of Islam in this case? There are no scientific applications to be found here. Instead, Allah decreed war against all non-Muslim societies, calling all Muslims, as a matter of religious obligation, to brutishly invade these societies, and to slaughter all non-Muslim men who refuse to accept Islam, in order that there may be a majority of women, which would allow for every Muslim man to have up to four wives and as many slaves as he desires.

It is a fact that never once, during the first thirteen years of Muhammad’s ministry, before he came to power as a statesman and Commander of the Islamic Army, was there any decree given by Allah that Muslims should engage in polygamy. It was only in the last ten years of Muhammad’s ministry, after he became rich by looting Meccan caravans and Jews, and after war (jihad) against non-Muslims became obligatory, that polygamy was mentioned. Thousands of Jewish and pagan girls and women were taken captive for the pleasure of Muslim men. There is also evidence that even some of Muhammad’s own friends and followers were embarrassed by his hostile decrees and eventually left Muhammad and Islam. Some of these men were murdered for deserting Muhammad after the Islamic Army became sovereign over Saudi Arabia, but those who were not killed were given the opportunity to redeem their lives by returning to service in the Army of Islam.

Committed Muslims are also obtaining wives in non-Islamic countries via financial and cultural jihad. An important example of how completely effective this tactic is, can be traced back seven hundred years ago to Indonesia when Muslim merchants began targeting Indonesia, and attracting its authorities’ attention to their wealth. Muslim men were able to obtain the consent of these unwary authorities to marry Indonesian women, focusing on demographical increase and, eventually, Muslims replaced a Hindu-Buddhist Indonesia with the Islamic Indonesia we know today.

Clearly, the scientific and humanitarian solutions so loudly proclaimed by committed Muslims are not really scientific or humanitarian at all, which is why they work so persistently to keep Islam’s anti-women legacies alive: If women were given any value as humans in Islamic countries, Muslims could not hold on to their polygamist traditions. The reality is that they have closed themselves off from the Truth. In the Truth, only a man and a woman can join together in marriage and establish real love. For this reason, God created one Adam and one Eve, not many Eves for one Adam. Sadly, some in the Bible have also ignored this truth. To justify Muhammad’s polygamy, committed Muslims have started to use biblical references of polygamy. For their own purposes in discovering logic and truth, they declare the Bible to be distorted and useless, but for the justification of polygamy, the Bible seems to hold value for them.

The reality behind the committed Muslims’ motives for polygamy in the West is to increase their numbers by having many children, thereby achieving a dominant majority as speedily as possible, while imposing themselves on Westerners, as their forefathers did to other non-Muslim societies in the Middle-East. Polygamy was not commonly used by Muslims as a primary tool for domination, but the use of force and violence was used first in order to bring people under submission, making them ripe for domination through the use of polygamy. Now, it is being used in contemporary society as a form of spreading Islam in a subtle, yet effective way.

The contemporary army of Islam does not have the war power to invade western countries, and dominate them by killing their men and taking their wives. They have, therefore, chosen cultural and financial fighting approaches for which the contemporary mind of the West is ready. First, the establishment of Sharia (Islamic law) under the pretence of multiculturalism which will gradually, but inevitably, lead to total domination. The Western liberal and altruistic attitude has become a poison to its own people. A poison which will quickly spread until Islam has gathered as many supporters as it needs to accomplish its ungodly mission.
Decades ago, committed Muslims realized that a bloodless victory over passive non-Muslim societies was an investment in demographical increase and domination by numbers. The increase of the Muslim population in western countries in recent decades is proof of their success. If polygamy is legalized in western countries, success will be highly rewarding for the Islamic agenda: Within a span of 7 to 14 years, every committed Muslim man could potentially add as many as 28 children to the Islamic population in any Western nation. That is, if each of a possible four wives bears the average seven children per household, which is fairly standard for traditional Muslim families. This will not be the end of the story: When polygamy is established, committed Muslims will certainly push hard to legalize concubines, referred to as mistresses in the West, and short term marriages.

Western countries do not know the hidden agendas behind the requests of committed Muslims. There are some humanists and atheists who have sided with committed Muslims because of their own ideologies, uniting to establish a stronger anti-Christian stand in the West. Sadly, these people do not know that once Islam gains power they will no longer have the freedom to exercise their rights. Since the rise of Islam, many humanists, atheists and others have been burned and killed, as has been the case in the contemporary radical Islamic countries, including the Islamic Republic of Iran. There is no doubt when committed Muslims take over the West they will first kill their non-Muslim western supporters, who once opened their arms to them in the name of ideology or democracy. Almost all communists in Iran supported Ayatollah Khomeini against the Shah in the years prior to the 1979 Revolution, but they were either killed or imprisoned, or were forced to escape after the Revolution. Escaping did not mean that they were completely out of danger. Some who did manage to escape as far away as Europe were quickly discovered and brutally murdered by the agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

There is a trap behind every Islamic value that committed Muslims proclaim as righteous, and Westerners will be in a much safer place if they recognize the hidden agendas in Islam before it is too late. Committed Muslims can be easily compared with the Angel of Darkness: They outwardly appear to be a people of light and peace, but inwardly they are dark and hostile (“…for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” 2 Corinthians 11:14). These men who seek to dominate the West through polygamy and violent extermination have deceived westerners with their pious disguises, but Jesus Christ warned men such as these: “Woe to you…hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also appear outwardly righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” (Matthew 23:27-28).

Polygamy: Embarrassing to Middle-Easterners Too

The Muslims who press for polygamy in the western countries are a source of embarrassment to millions of their own fellow Muslims throughout the world. 1400 years after the domination of Islam, not even one percent (1%) of Muslims supports polygamy. One reason for this is that since Muhammad, the best man humanity has ever known according to Islam, was unsuccessful with his multiple wives, it would be very unlikely, almost impossible, for his followers to be successful with their wives. To rescue themselves and their societies from the Islamic decree of polygamy, Muslims in the Middle-East have shown that the actions of Muhammad and his immediate successors are irrelevant to their own lives. Because of fear from Islam, Muslims do not have any choice but to justify what Muhammad and those after him did, but even the way they justify the polygamous lives of their prophet and other leaders is done in such a way as to excuse their families from polygamy. Their justification is that Muhammad and his successors were righteous men closer to Allah than they themselves are, and therefore able to treat their multiple wives equally.

Polygamy wouldn’t be practiced in the Middle-East if the religious leaders did not impose themselves on people, as they are trying to do in the western countries. Due to the influence of the western life in Middle-Eastern countries throughout the previous decades and Muslims’ strong disinterest in polygamy, almost all Islamic countries have made polygamy conditional, ignoring the expectation of Islam. One condition is that you need to get permission from your wife for the second marriage. Did Muhammad or his successors ask permission from any of their wives for their next marriage? The other one is that the age of marriage is higher than the recommendation of Muhammad. Time and time again he encouraged his followers to marry little girls in order to justify his marriage with the little girl, Aisha.

The reality is that if a Muslim man aims to have a second wife, he will receive extreme opposition from his own family members. Why? Because polygamy among Muslim leaders was the cause of political, social, moral and economic disasters in Islam’s history since the rise of Islam.

The following verses and comments of Muhammad regarding women give some insight into why he was unsuccessful in his polygamous marriage and did not leave a good legacy for Islamic societies. Once Muhammad said, “The best of you is he who is best to his wife” (Tirmidhi & Ibn Majah). As he offers no specific answer for this, allow me to provide you with some statements directly from Muhammad and his Qur’an:

• Among the Believers (Muslims) are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah… (Q.33:23).
• They ask thee (Muhammad) concerning women’s courses. Say: They are a hurt and a pollution: … (Q.2:222).
• Women are discouraged from going outside the house (Q.33:33), but if they go, they must cover themselves in order not to be recognized (Q.33:59).
• Muhammad once said to a woman: ‘Watch how you treat your husband for he is your Paradise and your Hell (Suyuti, commenting on Q.4:34)
• Husbands can beat their wives (Q.4:34; 38:44)
• Wives should not be saddened for anything you may give/tell them (Q.33:51)
• Muhammad struck his favorite wife, Aisha, in the chest one evening when she left the house without his permission. Aisha narrates, "He struck me on the chest which caused me pain.” (Muslim :: Book 4 : Hadith 2127 )
• Muhammad said: “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler” (Bukhari: Volume 9: Book 88: Hadith 219).
• If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way (Q.4:15).

But the punishment for men with the same crime is so different if they simply repent:

• If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful (Q.4:16)

There are hundreds of other references which I am not able to refer to here, some of which are highly disrespectful towards women.
1400 years of bloodshed between Sunnis and Shiites started with the problems arising from Muhammad’s polygamy. As Abraham’s problem in marriage caused hatred and bloodshed between the descendents of Ishmael (Arabs) and Isaac (Jews), the polygamous marriage of Muhammad has also caused innumerous bloody wars that Sunnis and Shiites were not able to get over.
There were a number of things which Muhammad did that made his wives unhappy, one significant thing being that throughout war time, Muhammad slept with some of the female captives, even in the war zone. Sometimes, he had a wife only for a night (called temporary marriage). As a result of his wives’ discontent, Allah revealed verses to him threatening his wives with divorce if they did not keep quiet (Q.66:3-5). Even his most favorite young wife, Aisha, said to Muhammad several times that Allah was always interested in pleasing himself alone. In one case, two men found Aisha guilty of adultery, which created the chaos between the later established Sunnis and Shiites. This made Muhammad unhappy of course and he did not speak to his wife for a month. He consulted his son-in-law, Ali, who was in favour of a divorce (Bukhari :: Volume 9 :: Book 92 :: Hadith 462). On the other hand, Muhammad was under pressure from her father, Abu Bakr, who was Muhammad’s right hand man and therefore did not dare to apply the punishment for adultery on her. He was trying to find a way to release himself from his duty. He eventually received a verse from Allah that four men are needed to witness adultery (Q.24:13), not two. This made Ali unhappy and eventually created a huge chasm between the family of Ali and Abu Bakr and thereby between Shiites and Sunnis. Just immediately after the death of Muhammad, there was a bloody war between friends of Ali and of Aisha.
Shiites still call Aisha an adulterer. I have even witnessed ceremonies, in Iran, where scarecrows of Abu Bakr (Aisha’s father) and Omar (the second successor and father-in-law) are burnt to express hatred towards these top leaders. No Shiite would name his daughter Aisha. For practicing Sunnis, Shiite women and girls are categorized as slaves, as is also the case for practicing Shiites towards Sunni women and girls. This explains why Zarqavy, the master mind of Al Qaedah, issued in an internet order in Iraq that female Shiites (including wives) are the property of Sunni men and belong to them.
The above will attest to the influence of Muhammad’s polygamy within the Middle-Eastern communities. The affects of polygamy in Muhammad’s time has largely contributed to the wars among Muslims throughout the history of Islam. Coming from a polygamous family, I know from my own experience that the injustice, discrimination, jealousy and unfairness towards ladies in Islam do not match the marital values of Christianity. Westerners need to wake up and reject the lies of those Muslims who press on for polygamy in the West.