beso, I agree that "Islam can be objectively shown to be the bottom of the pile" when it comes to the retardedness of all the Muslim countries of the world, but there is another side to polygamy, without it many woman would not be able to survive. In the same article I quote above Hosken relates how a man's Baghdad tea shop was blown up by an enormous car bomb in 2007 killing 68 people including his wife, 4 sons and a grandson. He has since somehow been able to rebuild his small business and says " You may congratulate me on this, but you see, I now have 4 widows and 11 orphans to support".