I fully concur with Suntou on this one! It seems Mr.Drammeh needs to buy a
condo in that Northern Nigerian state now that he has retired from the GSIC
,if living in such an environment would make him feel his Islam is purer.The
fantastic thing about Gambian islam generally is that it has never been
tempted to confuse brutality for purity,notwithstanding the exhortations
of many a rabble rouser in this country under the guise of Islamic
preaching.It blows the mind though that at a time when even the saudis are
rethinking some of their obsolete, draconian rules,there are still people in
enlightened countries like the Gambia calling for the execution of a person
who has married to more than four spouses.One of the  questions that
immediately comes to mind is:"What punitive measures is the learned scholar
going to prescribe for the numerous young women who get impregnated every
year out of wedlock in the Gambia here?" Because whereas there is no mention
in the Quran of what should be done to men marrying more than four,the same
could not be said of men and women having kids out of wedlock.

Regards Bass

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:20 PM, SUNTOU TOURAY <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Dr jaiteh, this shouldn't worry brothers in the practical sense. remembers
> ours is a secular state. for the sake of intellectual and religious debate,
> brothers may indulge themselves. but to worry, no. our Bakoteh motel owner
> was having at any given time more than 5 wives. and i was reliably informed
> that, one touray kunda fellow in the same Bakoteh has five darlings. when he
> was question about the legality, he stop attending the mosque jamat prayers.
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> Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:   Hmmm, what do brothers say?
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> courtesy of the point newspaper @
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> http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/2008/8/26/men-with-more-than-four-wives-should-be-stoned-to-death-banding-drammeh
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> A prominent Islamic Scholar and former president of the Gambia Supreme
> Islamic Council, Alhagie Ahmed Cherno Banding Drammeh, has said that
> Muslim men who marry more than four wives should be stoned to death.
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> The renowned preacher made this pronouncement to /The Point/ yesterday
> following a media report that a man in Nigeria's Niger State, known as
> Mr Bello Abubakar, is married with 86 wives and 170 children.
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> Alhagie Banding expressed his support on the verdict given by Nigeria's
> Islamic Authority Jamatu Nasril Islam (JNI) which told Mr Abubakar to
> choose only four and repent or else he will face a death sentence.
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> Talking to the media, Mr Abubakar challenged Muslim scholars, saying
> there is no punishment stated in Quran for having more than four wives
> but however advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women.
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> Reacting to the above comments, Alhagie Banding stressed that during the
> time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) there existed a
> man who married 10 wives but the Holy Prophet asked him to choose only
> four and divorce the remaining six as prescribed by the Sharia.
>
> He questioned the justification of Mr Bello's act, noting that something
> that the Prophet condemned should be food for thought for any Muslim.
>
> In a rather surprising move, Alhagie Banding refuted Mr Bello's coments,
> stressing that his punishment is to be stoned to death only because he
> has gone beyond the Islamic law (Sharia).
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> He noted that it was only during slavery period that men married more
> than four wives. "Even if one has the wealth and the ability to marry
> one thousand women the Sharia is saying don't go beyond four. Sharia is
> the supreme law of Islam if it has forbidden something why should one
> question that?" he said.
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