France Proposes to Strip Citizenship of Foreign-born Polygamists and Stop Welfare Payments to Polygamists

Dear Network, 

Sorry, Daphne, I disagree with you on this one.  France is the only country in the world that is cracking down hard on polygamy.  While we go through the lengthy and costly process of testing the constitutionality of our polygamy law, France is acting.  This campaign knew in 2005 that the riots in France were caused mostly by polygamy.  The press termed them “racial” but our sources said they were the product of French citizens disagreeing with the numbers of Muslim polygamists immigrating to the country with their harems. 

If Canada had pursued the prosecution of Winston Blackmore and James Oler in 2010, we would not be in this costly, taxing mess.  Canada has deported women living in polygamy only to  have them return secretly to Bountiful and bear more children.  We have word that a young woman in Colorado City is “waiting until she is 18” to come to Canada to marry into polygamy.  How will she come into Canada in the first place?  If I knew her name, I’d be the first to report her to the RCMP and the immigration authorities.  I implore those who do know her name to report her.

Also, the banning of burkas and niqabs was a very wise move in France.  Canada should do the same!  A terrorist cell plotting to bomb Ottawa has just been nabbed in Canada.  Not only could a man or a woman in a burka pull off a suicide bombing, but women forced to be covered from head to toe have been found to develop soft bones by the time they reach 40 because they never have their skin exposed to sunlight—Vitamin D! 

Citizenship is a privilege, Daphne, you are very correct on that point.  Polygamy is the denigration of all that is beautiful in a free, democratic society. 

I was smacked by ministers, priests and others to tone down my rhetoric when I first started this campaign and referred to polygamy as a boil that festers on the soil of any country it infests.  Now after seven years of campaigning, we see what happens when that boil festers and pops—riots, women and children denied their rights, harm in the form of health and psychological problems, dereliction of duties of the powers that be, disrespect for the laws of countries that open their arms to these immigrants who turn out to be polygamists, religious customary laws overtaking civil law, anarchy. 

President Nicolas Sarkozy may have a low standing in public opinion polls but in my opinion he is right on the mark for proposing this move to deport foreign-born polygamists and those practicing female genital mutilation.  Also, for proposing the withdrawal of welfare payments from polygamous families.  I hope he has the intestinal fortitude to start prosecuting French-born polygamists in the courts! 

Female genital mutilation is being practiced illegally in Canada!  Go to www.listenuptv.com click on “Episodes” then go to Episode #391.  The world has a Holocaust of women who walk around with a hole from which to urinate, menstruate and bear children, then the hole is sewn back up.  Ignorant people do not realize that sex starts in the brain.  These women are denied the right to be whole, healthy women.  And we have them right here in Canada.  Words cannot explain my angst when I think of how these women must suffer. 

All polygamy—Mormon, Muslim, Christian, African, Asian—is driven by patriarchy.  Where are the courts that will prosecute polygamists, Daphne?  Certainly not here in Canada!  Better to cut off all welfare payments strip them of their citizenship and deport them than to put such miserable burdens on honest, law-abiding citizens!  Polygamy is a crime against humanity.  

GO FRANCE GO! 

Nancy Mereska, President

Stop Polygamy in Canada

The Vancouver Sun 

Foreign-born polygamists to be stripped of French citizenship

 

By Daphne Bramham 27 Aug 2010 Think Tank

President Nicolas Sarkozy and his cabinet will meet next week to discuss how stripping citizenship from foreign-born nationals who practise polygamy and female genital mutilation. According to press reports, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux will also propose withdrawing all welfare benefits from men who have more than one wife.

It’s all part of a tough-on-crime agenda that includes tearing down Gypsy camps and deporting Roma to Bulgaria and Romania — both of which appear to be more controversial in Europe than the stripping of citizenship and welfare benefits. 

Polygamy is illegal in France and it was cited by one of Sarkozy’s ministers as one reason for the riots that ripped through the country’s suburban slums in 2005.

What seems to have  prompted this latest round is Sarkozy’s low standing in public opinion polls coupled with the high-profile case of 35-year-old Lies Hebbadj of Nantes, who has been accused of polygamy and welfare fraud. He is reported to have four wives and 15 children.

The Algerian-born Hebbadj was arrested in early August and charged with aggravated rape after his ex-wife and Muslim convert, Nina Gomez, accused him of assault and rape on her blog. She also accused him of tricking and coercing young women into sex slavery in Saudi Arabia.

The Independent reports that Hebbadji has a family compound that includes three house. He owns a chain of grocery and butcher shops and leads his own sect of Islam.

Hebbadj was also in the news last spring after one of this because one of his four wives publicly contested the police’s decision to fine her for driving a car while wearing a niqab, which police said dangerously obscured her view. In July, France banned both burkas and niqabs.

While clearly citizenship is a privilege and not necessarily a right, stripping it is a vast over-reaction. Polygamy is illegal in France. So, enforce that law. Welfare fraud is a crime, so prosecute it.