Thursday, August 25, 2005

Polygamy helps keep spinsters from becoming aged virgins!


Now, let's take a little trip from the sublime (Donald Rumsfeld) to the absurd (Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat - pictured at left).

Polygamy is common in Malaysia with its 60% Muslim population and as you can imagine, where there's polygamy, there's problems. Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat is a radical Muslim cleric whose party has governed the province of Kelantan for 15 years. Nik was commenting on two recent problems where good Muslim polygamists had tried to save an old virgin and got a faceful of acid from their loving Muslim first wives. Nik is well known for his off the wall remarks about women. Here's one: Stop wearing lipstick and perfume to reduce your risk of being raped.

Read all about it here.