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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
I don't know you are directing this post to me. I have not called you a Christian-Evangelist-Crusader-Racist-Islamophobe. There are a lot of posters in this thread and it's a bit to tell one anonymous poster from another. But, there are clearly posters here who appear primarily committed to spreading negative information about Islam.

I think when someone picks a topic such as slavery or concubines and attempts to convey that this is an accepted and non-controversial practice that is unquestioned within the religion, when in fact very few adherents actually believe such a thing and there is quite a bit of debate among scholars, that poster is attempting to spread negative perceptions of Islam. If the poster was solely interested in providing broader perspective, the poster would not completely ignore [b]common practice. [/b]

Islam, like any religion, is an easy target for criticism. It is fair to question its practices. But, just as I illustrated here with the example of Hagar, most posters here are not willing to subject mainstream Western religions to the same scrutiny. That suggests a certain basic lack of fairness.
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Common practice has nothing to do with the letter of religious law. [b] Polygamy in Muslim countries isn't common practice, either. [/b]Yet you'd be hard-pressed to find a Muslim scholar who'd call it banned.

Mainstream Western religions contain as many vile bits as Islam. You'd get no argument from me.  Start a thread on that, and I'll be your guest.[/quote]

New poster here.  What would be your definition of common with respect to polygamy? I feel it's fairly common in Egypt, for example.  Wealthy businessmen who can support more than one wife often have two.  And on the opposite side of the spectrum, very poor farmers sometimes have two wives.  Then there are the Western women who become second wives in Egypt.  I know two personally.  Both married to businessmen who do not divorce their first wives because it would dishonor their wives and hurt them financially.  One guy has sex with both wives.  The other guy says he doesn't -- Egyptian version of a divorce in everything but name from the first wife.  Who knows?  I'd say about 10% of the Egyptian marriages I know personally include two wives.  I've never met someone with three.  I don't know if that's common or not.  But it's definitely there and not hidden, and it depends who you ask whether it's a negative or not.  
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