{"id":461609,"date":"2011-07-15T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/15\/muslim-party-opposes-marriage-bill\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T10:07:54","slug":"muslim-party-opposes-marriage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/muslim-party-opposes-marriage-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Party Opposes Marriage Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"26.5787106447\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Brian Otieno<\/p>\n<p>14 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>A section of Muslims has opposed the Marriage Bill that seeks to abolish dowry payment and allow a man to marry more than four wives. The Islamic party of Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa yesterday criticised the Bill introduced by the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution saying it demeans women.<\/p>\n<p>The party said marriage between men and women is a divine ruling that honours the status of a woman, adding that those against payment of dowry are promoting oppression of women. &#8220;Allah understands our needs far better than we do. He has allowed polygamy and obliged men to pay dowry. These are definite Islamic rulings which cannot be debated,&#8221; said Shabani Mwalimu, the media representative of the party.<\/p>\n<p>The CIPK organising secretary Sheikh Mohamed Khalifa said the Bill of Rights provides that marriage issues between Muslim couples will have to be restricted to the Islamic sharia. &#8220;That is not an important issue to us because when it comes to marriage, we have Islamic guidelines that the new constitution allows us to follow,&#8221; Sheikh Khalifa said.<\/p>\n<p>The Marriage Bill does not specify the number of women a man in a polygamous family can have. Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa said if the Bill became law, many Islamic men may be tempted to be promiscuous. Mwalimu said the restriction to a monogamous family set up for those who had not declared that their family would be polygamous in the first marriage is oppressive. &#8220;Our faith allows us to have up a maximum of four wives. So what happens if I want to add a second, third and fourth wife today?&#8221; posed Mwalimu.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107150503.html\" title=\"Muslim Party Opposes Marriage Bill\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muslim Party Opposes Marriage Bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Brian Otieno 14 July 2011 A section of Muslims has opposed the Marriage Bill that seeks to abolish dowry payment and allow a man to marry more than four wives. The Islamic party of Hizb ut-Tahrir East Africa yesterday criticised the Bill introduced by the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution saying it demeans women. The party said marriage between men and women is a divine ruling that honours the status of a woman, adding that those against payment of dowry are promoting oppression of women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Muslim Party Opposes Marriage Bill - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/muslim-party-opposes-marriage-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Muslim Party Opposes Marriage Bill - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Brian Otieno 14 July 2011 A section of Muslims has opposed the Marriage Bill that seeks to abolish dowry payment and allow a man to marry more than four wives. 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