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...King) of Bikom to have as many wives as he liked? The U.N. has been burdened with this question since July 1948, when St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance of London (a Roman Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) presented a complaint concerning plural marriage in the British Cameroons. One missionary, said the complaint, had reported that the Fon had 600 wives, charged that he had taken one girl to his harem by force. Last year the U.N. Trusteeship Council sent a visiting mission off to West Africa to investigate. Last week the mission sent...
...Plural marriage in Bikom," the U.N. mission report concluded, ". . . is a type of social security which will have to remain until Western civilization through education convinces the Africans that other ways are better and preferable...
There is no civil law against polygamy in Israel. The Law of the Prophet permits the Moslem Arab minority the privilege of plural wives. The Law of the Rabbis binds Ashkenazi Jews (mostly of Central European origin) to monogamy but does not affect Sephardic Jews (of Spanish, Portuguese and North African origin) or Yemenite Jews (of Arabian origin...
...barb aimed less at the Arabs than at Israel's own polygamists. Among the legislators were three Yemenites. Only one of them, bearded sexagenerian Abraham Tabib, had ever practiced plural marriage, and one of his two wives had just died. Old Tabib did not take part in the Knesset debate, but his fellow Yemenite, Monogamist Zacharia Gluska, rose to defend the morals of the sect...
...churches (O the misery of the plural!) must now do four things. They must have a clear understanding of the ground on which they stand, so as not to make a compromise of the faith. They must in all earnest start a process of internal revitalization to sweep away idol worship, worldliness, hypocrisy, division, ignorance, and heaviness of the eye and lukewarmness of the heart . . . They must quickly plan together and decide upon a program of practical and concrete social service. And they must revolutionize their organization, their theology, their ways of living, and their methods of evangelism...