Polygamy, Prostitution and a cold look at reality

How To Spot a Persian ProstituteStreetwalkers in chadors.By Juliet LapidosPosted Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at 6:53 PM ET
Qom, Iran
Tehran's former police chief Reza Zarei attempted suicide in prison yesterday, a month after being arrested for consorting with six naked women in a brothel. In the aftermath of the scandal, the Times, the Associated Press, and the BBC all reported that prostitutes are becoming more visible on Iranian streets. Given the Islamic dress code, how do Persian prostitutes signal their trade?... More on that...

This problem has come up in the Islamic world in the past and the solution was simple. Exhort men who were able to marry the excess women. Many Muslim scholars have resorted to this kind of tactic each time this problem arose. Marry the excess women off, and remove them from the local of their employ. It is a classic example of the story of the murderer in hadith where Allah shortened the earth for the murderer in the angels dispute. In this situation the prostitutes don't begin with the mindset of prostitutes, many of them are only trying to escape a bad situation and enter into a better one. I am sure that many of them leave with intentions or promises of going to the big city where there are large populations of pious men who will marry them only to find nothing but predators and men ambivilant to marriage. The reality is that the surplus of women severely limits their chances as most men in an atmosphere of freely available sex are in no hurry to get married at all.

So it would seem that most of these women their primary motivation is survival and as they remain in the lifestyle they are raped of all compassion and are left with nothing but scorn. A travesty of reality. Then there is the casual dismissal of these women by all of society. Men and women alike. They receive no compassion from their families, the government, their clients or their fellow women on the streets.

It takes a man who is responsible to take them on as wives and provide a way for them to get the treatment that they need. A patient person who can help them heal. But where are these men? Now let's shift focus to the states where the community of young adults now is also being absorbed by a prostitutes mindset. American Women are so bombarded by images of self and self worth and families are so broken and fractured raising a woman that has sense of self and respect of her body is increasingly becoming a daunting task. No matter how confident the woman there are always issues of self-image. Then there is the phenomenon of money for something lifestyle where women are so superflous and so geared to believe that sex is the cornerstone of the relationship there isn't a day that goes by that I do not hear men of all types complain that there are no marriageable women out there. They are all hoes (excuse the expression). So trained and indoctrinated by television, radio and movies that sex is a passing event in a relationship that it hold little to no worth whatsoever. The incubation time of new relationships before sex has been greatly reduced from years to days and sometimes hours. Why then would the American Man need to marry regardless of his denomination.

Then we get to our community as Muslims and the superfluity of women is then greatly exacerabated as Muslim women are not supposed to marry outside of the religion, but when they come to the marriage table they are faced with a myriad of reasons why men shouldn't get married. Muslim men who are weak are enticed by easy women of the world in great abundance, then if that isn't an issue women are faced with women who are looking to get married who have no children, and are younger and have no qualms marrying older established brothers or younger unestablished brothers. Then there Women with children from a prior relationship so who would want to marry them, as they would have to be even more cautious about the spouse that they choose as a safety measure (hopefully) for her children while fending off her prospective mate from younger more available and possibly attractive women. Then there are the older women who have even less chance at getting married. Then there are professionals, who circulate in circles so small and time at a premium that they have no exposure to a selectable cadre of mates. And lastly there is the ethnic card as some women choose of their own devices to marry inside their ethnicity this brings the number of WILLING marriageable partners down to an ants ass of selection.

I would like to open the floor to Opinions given these factors do you see the wisdom of polygamy or even the necessity of polygamy in these times? What is your opinion and why do you hold it? For me I hold that polygamy isn't for every woman, however for society right now at this juncture it is definitely a serious choice to be considered. As Muslims the prospect of our Muslimahs marrying outside of the religion has nothing to do with her happiness as an individual, but the extended strength of the Ummah as a whole without leadership of a forthright Islamic male position, is to leave the Ummah at a severe disadvantage. She may live a happy life, but the odds of the quality of her children's Islamic identity past a cursory academic study is at severe harm as the core of the religion the family has been hypocritized at the outset. I'm not saying everyone, but as a trend this will inevitably be the case.

I am interested in feedback, Let me know where you stand.