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Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov has urged men to stop their wives from using WhatsApp after anger over a police chief's forced marriage to a 17-year-old spread on the messaging service:
"Lock them in, do not let them go out, then they will not post anything," Ramzan Kadyrov was quoted as saying. Mr Kadyrov had earlier backed a police chief's marriage to a 17-year-old, even though he was already married, in apparent violation of Russian laws. His chief of staff has since proposed legalising polygamy in Chechnya.
Mr Kadyrov, an authoritarian leader and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has in recent years outlawed the abduction of brides and underage marriage. He is also thought to be in favour of polygamy. His top aide Magomed Daudov said: "It all has to be in keeping with Sharia: But if a man can support more than one wife, then why not?"
Before Saturday's ceremony, local media reported that police chief Nazhud Guchigov, 47, had prevented Kheda Goylabiyeva from leaving her home and threatened her family with reprisals if they did not hand her over.Mr Kadyrov denounced discussion of the marriage on WhatsApp in comments broadcast on local state-run TV. "Stop. Behave like Chechens," he was reported as saying. "The family honour is the most important thing. Do not write such things. Men, do take your women out of WhatsApp." Last week he took to his Instagram account to criticise Russian media coverage of the marriage as "this fuss ordered by some liberals". "The girl's parents gave their blessing to this marriage," he claimed, arguing that reports to the contrary were filled with lies.
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Friday May 22 2015, @08:38PM
Because there is only so many women to go around. If you want men to be resentful, then go ahead, have your "second wife". Then don't be surprised someone doesn't come and kills you for your wife.
Actually, in many places in the world there simply aren't enough women available, which leads to an excess of angry males. But unlike your suggestion, this virtually never results in killing the powerful to take their wives.
The excess of men are made into soldiers, and the rage is turned against the enemy. The men are subtly (and not so subtly) trained that power and respect and wives will come from defeating the enemy. And if you die in the effort you still get the women, maybe even more women, all virgins.
An Excess of males is historically true of many civilizations, often, but not always due to polygamy. Sometimes due to post-natal gender selection.
There is a reason ISIS and Bokoharam have a penchant for executing defeated males and making off with large numbers of women. We in the west are incensed by this, but in those parts of the world it is taken as something to be expected.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 23 2015, @12:28AM
That's just how things were in the old world. Women were spoils of war, just like food and gold, prizes to be carried home. Raping and pillaging and bringing home slave women was traditionally one of the benefits of war. Most of the world has grown past this kind of savagery, but there's still some extremist holdouts left that want to take the world back to the stone age.