In addition, officials have identified a potential loophole by which a man can divorce his wife under British law while continuing to live with her as his spouse under Islamic law, and obtain a spouse visa for a foreign woman who he can legally marry.
"Entry clearance may not be withheld from a second wife where the husband has divorced his previous wife and the divorce is thought to be one of convenience," an immigration rulebook advises. "This is so, even if the husband is still living with the previous wife and to issue the entry clearance would lead to the formation of a polygamous household."
thus enabling him, and his presumably submissive wives, to live without having to make that vexingly "stark alternatives of culture loyalty and state loyalty" that Rowan said was such a problem. You see? Britain has already found ways to "accommodate" the cultural sensibilities of our new friends from the East.
Hilary is being linked by the neocons at InsideCatholic... is she going mainstream? I remember Nirvana before they were cool, too...
ReplyDeleteUm. Kurt?
ReplyDeleteUnless you're writing from the afterlife,
You can't use that name.
Take a quick look at the commbox rules on the sidebar.
Gives new meaning to the old limerick:
ReplyDeleteThere was a young fellow of Lyme
Who had three wives at a time.
When asked why the third
He replied, "One is absurd
"And bigamy, Sir, is a crime."