FMT - PETALING JAYA: Sisters in Islam (SIS) has accused the Kedah government of indifference to the demands of natural justice with its decision to ease the legalisation of second and subsequent marriages that are solemnised outside the country without the consent of senior wives.
SIS executive director Rozana Isa said Kedah was giving the message that a man would not be committing a serious offence if he took a second, third or fourth wife without the permission of the wife or wives he had married earlier.
“Sisters in Islam views the decision to reduce the penalty and allow registration without the consent of the first wife as easing the practice of polygamy for men and encouraging dishonesty and injustice towards the first wife,” she said.
The Kedah government recently announced that it would introduce a programme to legalise unregistered Muslim marriages done outside the country.
The programme, expected to start next month, would see such marriages legalised even if the men were already married to other women.
SIS executive director Rozana Isa said Kedah was giving the message that a man would not be committing a serious offence if he took a second, third or fourth wife without the permission of the wife or wives he had married earlier.
“Sisters in Islam views the decision to reduce the penalty and allow registration without the consent of the first wife as easing the practice of polygamy for men and encouraging dishonesty and injustice towards the first wife,” she said.
The Kedah government recently announced that it would introduce a programme to legalise unregistered Muslim marriages done outside the country.
The programme, expected to start next month, would see such marriages legalised even if the men were already married to other women.
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