Seorang lelaki setelah mempunyai 86 orang isteri dan 170 orang anak `baru' didakwa di Mahkamah Syariah di Nigeria. Bagaimana boleh berlaku perkara sebegini? Bagaimana pernikahan dibuat? Kenapa setelah lelaki tersebut mempunyai 86 isteri dan 170 anak baru perkara ini terbongkar? Kenapa tidak dari dulu lagi semasa beliau mengahwini isteri yang kelima atau keenam?
Pelik! Pelbagai persoalan bermain di minda saya. Apakah masyarakat di sana di kalangan mereka yang `baik' dan hanya `jaga tepi kain sendiri' sahaja? Kalau kain jiran sebelah menyebelah koyak rabak, pandai-pandailah jiran tersebut jahit sendiri. Biarpun sehingga menampakkan aurat!
Bagaimana peranan pejabat agama atau penguatkuasa agama? Adakah wujud badan-badan keagamaan milik kerajaan seperti itu? Yang bertambah pelik, berdasarkan berita tersebut lelaki itu tinggal dengan isteri-isteri berserta anak-anak di Bida... tinggal satu tempat atau daerah sahaja rupanya... jadi, mudahlah untuk dikesan dan dihidu kesalahan yang telah dibuat oleh Mohamad Bello oleh pihak berkuasa sepatutnya... saya kata sepatutnya ....
Saya teringat satu kes di Malaysia tentang seorang lelaki yang mempunyai lebih dari empat isteri... pada siri yang lain mungkin saya boleh kongsikan dengan pembaca-pembaca sekalian...
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BERITA HANGAT!!!
Nigerian court detains preacher with 86 wives(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-18 11:40 Comments(0) PrintMailABUJA --
A Nigerian Muslim court Monday detained an 84-year-old Islamic preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them.
The authorities in central Niger state charged Mohammed Bello with "insulting religious creed" and "unlawful marriages" after local chiefs and Muslim leaders gave him until September 7 to comply with Islamic sharia law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives at a time.
The preacher, who lives with his wives and some 170 children in the town of Bida, pleaded not guilty to the charges at an Upper Sharia Court in the state capital Minna.
Judge Abdul Imam, who rejected Bello's bail application and ordered that he be remanded in prison to allow police complete their investigation, adjourned the case to October 6.
Bello's detention came barely a week after he was granted temporary reprieve by a civil court in the Nigerian capital Abuja where he filed a petition against local chiefs and Muslim leaders who threatened to banish him if he failed to divorce 82 of his wives.
The preacher said the threats violated his right to life and personal liberty. The court gave Bello temporary protection from banishment, but the Niger State Sharia Commission decided on Monday to charge him at an Islamic court.
Bello had received a number of death threats after the Nigerian media began reporting on his unusual marital situation, his spokesman said.
Some newspapers said earlier in September that Bello had agreed at a meeting with local officials to divorce all but four of his wives and had asked for time to return them to their families.
But his spokesman later denied the reports and said the preacher intended to marry more wives instead.
His case has stirred controversy in Africa's most populous nation of 140 million people, roughly half of whom are Muslim. Many Muslim scholars say Islam allows men to have up to four wives at any given time who must be treated equally.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-09/18/content_7038168.htm
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