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UK Muslim Gender Equality Activist has Two Wives
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On March 8, 2015 @ 8:14 am In The Point | 3 Comments
Obviously he’s a moderate. He’s limiting himself to two. He could go up to four. (via Religion of Peace)
A Labour rising star who claims to support women’s rights has two wives and asked an imam to sign off a supposed Islamic divorce, it was claimed last night.
Councillor Waseem Zaffar has said he is committed to fighting gender inequality and declared his opposition to sharia law in Britain.
But the politician and magistrate – once pictured with Labour leader Ed Miliband – married teacher Ayesha Imdad last year without having formally divorced his first wife.
Instead, Zaffar – who received an MBE in 2012 for his charity work – sent Faraz Begum an Islamic divorce document in the post after walking out on her in 2010. He obtained the document from an imam who operates from a terraced house calling itself Raza mosque in Aston, Birmingham.
This means that under English law at least, Zaffar, 33, is still married to Miss Begum, whom he wed in Pakistan in 2003.
Meanwhile, in April last year, Zaffar married his second wife – who is now seven months pregnant – in a lavish Islamic ceremony. Among the hundreds of guests was shadow minister Jack Dromey, the husband of deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman.
A civil divorce would be less favorable to Zaffar than an Islamic divorce. Which is why he went the quickie route while marrying wife number two who is apparently already pregnant. It’s appropriate enough that he got an award from Prince Charles.
At some point his wife, number one, will probably extract a divorce, but it’s notable how little concern Zaffar has for UK law. Despite paying lip service to opposing Sharia, he’s operating strictly around Islamic family law. Which, as Zaffar’s wife number one can tell you, isn’t too big on gender equality.
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