Moscow mufti suggests legalizing plural marriage in Russia

Moscow mufti Ildar Alyautdinov has supported the legalization of plural marriages for Russian Muslims. The Islamic religious activist described the initiative to Russian News Service.

It would be right to legalize such marriages for Muslims on certain conditions, Moscow mufti believes. “Unfortunately some people would like to create a family but are not ready for it. There are a lot of situations when we have to refuse such people and tell them that it is impossible,” Alyautdinov said.

The mufti explained his position by the fact that there were more women than men in Russia. 11 million women are deprived of a chance to have a family and cannot be happy, the mufti said. “It would be better to be a wife than a lover,” he noted.  

Moscow imams allow about a hundred plural marriages (namely among migrants) a year, he said.

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