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Bizarre Foreign “Marriage” Laws Make Britain a Laughing Stock

Posted by admin, on Jun 20th, 2011, to Andrew Brons' BNP Ideas web site

Bizarre Third World “marriage laws” which entail telephone weddings and “ceremonies” involving no partners but a “bottle of gin and cash” are being used to subvert immigration laws, it has emerged.

The incredible tales of how British law is being made into the world’s laughing stock emerged last week during a court case in Scotland after a female Pakistani immigrant tried to have her marriage by telephone to another Pakistani annulled.

The woman, who was unnamed, claimed to have met the Pakistani man only “on the internet” and never in person, said she had married him over the telephone in 2005. She was in Edinburgh at the time, and he was in Pakistan.

Now, however, the two appear to have fallen out. The woman applied to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to grant a decree of nullity because, she argued, the “telephone marriage” was not valid under Scottish law.

The court however disagreed. Lord Stewart, in a written decision, said the ceremony was valid under Pakistani law and he therefore had no power to annul the marriage.

Maria Clarke, counsel for the woman, admitted that an expert on Muslim and Pakistani law said that telephone marriages were valid and increasingly common in Pakistan and, according to the laws of that country, the wedding seemed to be legal.

Lord Stewart said in his judgment that previous court decisions had established the principle that if a marriage was legal in one country it could not be overturned in another.

He quoted the case of an Irishman and a Ghanaian woman in England who sent a bottle of gin and some cash to Ghana where a ceremony was held according to tribal custom, even though neither bride nor groom attended.

“The Court of Appeal recognised the union on the basis of expert opinion to the effect that a marriage in absentia was formally valid according to the customary law in question,” he said.

The situation has thus arisen whereby marriages conducted according to Third World “laws” are now recognised as valid in Britain.

This has, amongst other things, given rise to “legal” polygamy, particularly amongst the Muslim population of Britain. Although it is against British law to have more than one wife, multiple unions conducted in another country under Islamic law are recognised.

Hence it has become possible for a Muslim male in Britain to have multiple partners, all recognised as such. He and his partners can, and do, claim child support for all their offspring.

A 2009 review by the Treasury, the Work and Pensions Department, the Inland Revenue and the Home Office on the topic, revealed that a Muslim man can claim state support of more than £10,000 a year to keep his wives, if the wedding took place in one of those countries where polygamy is commonplace, such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia and across huge tracts of Africa.

A Muslim male can receive £92.80 per week in income support for wife number one, and a further £33.65p for each of his subsequent spouses.

Therefore, if he has four wives (the maximum permitted under Islamic teachings) he can claim nearly £800 a month from the British taxpayer.

A polygamist is also, the review added, entitled to more generous housing benefits and bigger council houses to reflect the large size of his family. In addition, he can claim £1,000 a year in child benefit for each child.

This is an intolerable situation, created by the insanity of modern liberalism which has infected society. An urgent review of the legal system and its application is long overdue in Britain, and only the British National Party has the understanding and the political willpower to make this change.

1 Response to " Bizarre Foreign “Marriage” Laws Make Britain a Laughing Stock "

Will Mossop says:

June 20, 2011 at 2:46 pm

“Lord Stewart said in his judgment that previous court decisions had established the principle that if a marriage was legal in one country it could not be overturned in another.”

That still doesn’t mean you have to recognise the validity of the marriage or accept the “spouse” into your country.

Is this part of Alex Salmond’s desire to see mass immigration destroy the Scottish people?

Really, Scots, what are you doing voting SNP?