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Qatari women outraged as activist backs polygamy
By Barbara Bibbo', Correspondent
Doha: A Doha-based social activist has come under fire after inviting nationals to engage in polygamy to solve what he called "the serious problem of unmarried women".
Telephone calls from irate Qatari women have poured in to the local media over the past two days, stirring a debate on Abdulaziz Al Ansari's public appeal.
"Social stability is at stake. Al Ansari is destroying families," said a Qatari woman to local daily Al Sharq, which published some of the protests it received.
Self-restraint
"Ramadan is a month of austerity and self-restraint, but Al Ansari is only harping on about marriage. He should be stopped," said another lady.
Women voiced their concern after Al Ansari delivered a speech in a mosque here on Friday following noon prayers. However, Al Ansari, who has been running a non-profit marriage bureau for the past six years, has constantly promoted polygamy.
In his last public appeal, he called on Qatari men to marry more than one woman to help curb the growing number of unmarried females.
"We are getting more inquiries for marriage from women than men, so finding a suitable match for each woman is a major challenge. It is a social responsibility to find a match for each woman willing to marry. If we neglect this area it can bring about serious moral problems," he told the Arabic daily Al Raya.
He said more than half the number of women of marriageable age in Qatar are unmarried. The problem is so serious, he said, that there are 30 to 40 unmarried women, including widows and divorcees, for every two to three eligible bachelors.
He added that his objective is to help young people get married and not indulge in immoral behaviour.
But Qatari women regard the matter much differently. In a local survey women questioned the way Al Ansari was propagating polygamy in public and through the mosques, as polygamy can be practised only by following strict rules, they said.
"Al Ansari should utilise Ramadan for fasting and for the sincere worship of God and not to spoil our family life," a lady said.
Meanwhile, the activist said he will continue his propaganda "for the benefit of his country". To encourage polygamy, he is preaching that a man's dowry to his bride can be as low as 25,000 riyals (Dh25,000) a statement that Qatari women have found outrageous.
"Some of our husbands have already two wives. If the dowry amount is so low, they will not hesitate to marry a third or even a fourth wife," a woman said.
Polygamy is regulated by Islamic law, Sharia, which allows men to have up to four wives with the strict provision for equal justice for all.
However, some modernist scholars argue the Quranic norm is monog-amy and polygamy is permissible only in exceptionable circumstances.
"It is a social responsibility to find a match for each woman willing to marry. If we neglect this area it can bring about serious moral problems."