Britain’s Sunday Telegraph reported that “husbands with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits following a year-long Government review.”  Not every husband, mind you. Ordinary Brits can get up to seven years in prison for bigamy. But if you’re a Muslim it’s not only just fine, it’s profitable too, as long as you marry the extra wives in another country. Sometimes there’s a problem, though, in getting those wives into Britain. But fortunately for the men, there are ways to do it.

http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/polygamy-the-road-to-multiple-welfare-benefits/

Among the rights guaranteed by Convention on the Rights of the Child are those relating to violence against the girl-child are the right to life and the right not to be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with her privacy, family, home or correspondence. State Parties are further enjoined to take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation. Under Article 24 which provides for the right to health, State Parties are enjoined to take effective and appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children. Such practices would include female circumcision (FGM), as well as early marriages, (including in a polygamous situation) which predispose the girl-child to early pregnancies and all its attendant dangers.

http://esaconf.un.org/WB/default.asp?action=9&boardid=33&read=2026&fid=325

Two FLDS schools, with some students from Boundary County, get almost $1 million a year from the Canadian government.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/feb/15/secret-under-scrutiny/

The FLDS community of Bountiful, B.C., is the “polygamy capital of Canada,” that country’s “dirty secret,” where underage marriages and child abuse have gone untouched, according to author and Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham, who has written extensively about the sect.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/39696072.html

IT TOOK A TELEVISION SERIES about a Viagra-popping patriarch with three friendly/jealous wives and tightly scheduled evenings to set off a serious public debate about polygamy. And that was precisely the intention of the creators of this now infamous television show–no, not Big Love, the American series that debuted on HBO in March, but ‘Ailat Al-Hagg Metwalli (Hagg Metwalli’s Family), an Egyptian serial that stirred emotions and sparked a bitter debate about polygamy in the Muslim world during the holy month of Ramadan 2001.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12266

Polygamy has come to France with the tens of thousands of African immigrants from countries like Senegal, Mali and Mauritania.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E1D91139F935A15752C0A960958260

High levels of incest, child abuse and wife battering. But the crimes are rarely reported because of the secrecy surrounding polygamous communities, law enforcement officials say.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy69.html

In the first six months of 2006 in France there were 50,000 acts of urban violence by Muslims. On average 15 police officers, fire fighters or other public officials were attacked per day and 100 cars were set alight per night.

http://politicscentral.com/2006/10/25/france_prepares_50000_riot_pol.php

If immigrants with several wives settle in the Netherlands, the local authorities register all the marriages.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2008/08/netherlands_rec.php

Email claims Australian P.M. wants to throw out Muslim extremists. True or false?

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/australia.asp