Good luck, Israel
State Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has an excuse for a fact-finding junket to the Holy Land. Israel is trying to eradicate polygamy, which is rampant among Bedouins. Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog says:The phenomenon has become an epidemic whose emotional, economic and social implications on women and their children are unbearable.Farouk Amrur, chairman of the Beit Berl Jewish-Arab Institute, adds a comment that has a familiar ring in Utah:
Unfortunately the State of Israel is not dealing with the issue because it fears confrontation with Bedouin society, even though polygamy is illegal.The goal of an Israeli pilot program is to make Bedouins, about one in four men have more than one wife, aware of the negative implications of polygamy. It will also provide Bedouin women with educational and professional tools and reach young Bedouins through the schools.
But Sheikh Sami Abu Farakh says Islam allows polygamy as long as the women are treated with equality. If Bedouin society had an equal number of men and women, polygamy would not be necessary, he says. State intervention is "a way of saying that the Bedouin need to be educated," which angers him.
1 Comments:
Nice vacation Mark! Meanwhile back here in Utah, Monticello gets funds to upgrade drinking, waste water systems.
http://tinyurl.com/2tja7s
After getting the grant from the Utah Permanent Community Impact Board (CIB) for $1.8 million to improve health services and drinking and waste water systems in San Juan County what does Monticello do with it?
They award the whole amount of money to Falcon Contracting Inc of HILDALE UTAH!
http://tinyurl.com/2q6k72
Meanwhile Bluff Utah, the founding settlement in San Juan County is denied and funds to upgrade it's infrastructure.
Glad to see that our money is still going to keep Warren Jeffs in business. [/sarcasm]
Post a Comment
<< Home