Malaysian Muslim women agree on polygamy, but only a third say hubby can take new wife

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According to a survey by a rights group in Malaysia, 70% of the respondents accept that a husband has the right to practise polygamy if he can treat all the wives fairly.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 — Seven in 10 Muslim women here agree that polygamy is a right accorded to Muslim men, a survey by rights group Sisters in Islam on Muslim women’s realities in Malaysia published today found.

“However, only 32 per cent among them would allow their husbands to take another wife,” said the report titled “Perception and Realities: The Public and Personal Rights of Muslim Women in Malaysia”. East Coast women were also those agreed the most that polygamy is still relevant and could be accepted today at 70 per cent, compared to the South , North , Central , and East Malaysia .

Muslim men who wanted to marry an additional wife previously had to show the marriage was both “just and necessary”, but the 2005 amendment loosened it to either “just” or “necessary”, with the risk of adultery by the husband also accepted as a necessary condition.

 

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