Politicians ‘ignoring’ polygamy

British politician Baroness Warsi has called for restrictions to prevent polygamy in the UK. A Muslim herself she claims that cultural sensitivity has prevented politicians from discussing the issue of polygamy. She is a member of the Conservative Party and Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action and urges the government to consider the…

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    Veil is cultural not religious, asserts Tory peer

    The veil was claimed to be cultural and not religious one of Britain’s most senior Muslim politicians said. Yorkshire peer Baroness Warsi called on communities to question non-religious rites and rituals that did little more than create and exacerbate divisions. Shadow Communities Secretary Baroness Warsi of Dewsbury warned that British Muslims as a whole risked…

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      Muslims have duty ‘as a community’ to beat extremism

      The Muslim community in Britain should abandon its retreat into a victim culture, a leading Conservative Muslim peer said yesterday. Baroness Warsi, the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion, attacked hardliners and hotheads who claimed that it was un-Islamic to vote or for women to have access to schools and jobs. She said that Muslims had…

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        UK Muslims warned against ‘victim culture’

        The Conservative peer who helped negotiate the release of the primary school teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohamed attacked her fellow British Muslims today for their “victim culture”. Baroness Warsi, a Conservative spokeswoman on community cohesion, also criticised Labour for its “patronage politics” and for having encouraged…

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