Italian Islamic leader wants legal recognition of polygamy

Aug 18, 2016 by

from Crux:

Only months after Italy approved civil unions for lesbians and gays, a leader of the country’s Islamic community is using the move to argue for the civil recognition of polygamy. He also claimed that Pope Francis’ silence regarding his suggestion means that the pontiff has perhaps understood that it’s a “simple civil right” and a matter of equality.

Hamza Piccardo is founder of the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy, an umbrella organization which represents most of Italy’s Muslim communities. Recently, Piccardo shared a picture of the mayor of Milan with a gay couple after celebrating their union on Facebook.

Piccardo accompanied the picture with the following message: “If it’s only a matter of civil rights, then polygamy is a civil right.”

Commenting on his own August 6 post, after several Facebook users reacted to it, he wrote: “Myself and millions of people don’t agree with homosexual unions, and yet it’s licit and we respect them. Those interested in them are a minority, as polygamists would be. Society as a whole can accept everyone.”

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