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For your daily dose of false dichotomies, religious stereotyping, and historical dalliance, get yourself over to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Today: why the Justinian doctrine of monogamy is a failed social experiment, and why polygyny is a form of praise to one’s first wife.

Putting skin-deep cultural analysis to one side, if this is accurately reflective of how marriage relationships are carried out more broadly within Muslim families (even without entering into polygamy), then I’m even more dismayed about how women are treated under Islam than I was before.

Which is saying something.