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Anything less than 86 will not fulfill my needs.
Basar
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I am at a loss here. Here's man who has 86 wifes and normally I would assume most of these wifes were forced to marry him and be pissed. But no, you'll be mistaken if you thought so. Most of these women actually wanted to marry him themselves and apparently "he will consider the fact that God has asked him to do it and he will just marry them".
Some interesting parts in bold.
Last bolded part. Wow, just wow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7547148.stm
Some interesting parts in bold.
Nigerian advises against 86 wives
By Andrew Walker
BBC News, Bida, Nigeria
Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, has advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women.
The former teacher and Muslim preacher, who lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children, says he is able to cope only with the help of God.
"A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them," he told the BBC.
He says his wives have sought him out because of his reputation as a healer.
"I don't go looking for them, they come to me. I will consider the fact that God has asked me to do it and I will just marry them."
But such claims have alienated the Islamic authorities in Nigeria, who have branded his family a cult.
Most Muslim scholars agree that a man is allowed to have four wives, as long as he can treat them equally.
But Mr Bello Abubakar says there is no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.
"To my understanding the Koran does not place a limit and it is up to what your own power, your own endowment and ability allows," he says.
"God did not say what the punishment should be for a man who has more than four wives, but he was specific about the punishment for fornication and adultery."
'Order from God'
As Mr Bello Abubakar emerged from his compound to speak to the BBC, his wives and children broke out into a praise song.
Most of his wives are less than a quarter of his age - and many are younger than some of his own children.
The wives the BBC spoke to say they met Mr Bello Abubakar when they went to him to seek help for various illnesses, which they say he cured.
"As soon as I met him the headache was gone," says Sharifat Bello Abubakar, who was 25 at the time and Mr Bello Abubakar 74.
"God told me it was time to be his wife. Praise be to God I am his wife now."
Ganiat Mohammed Bello has been married to the man everyone calls "Baba" for 20 years.
When she was in secondary school her mother took her for a consultation with Mr Bello Abubakar and he proposed afterwards.
"I said I couldn't marry an older man, but he said it was directly an order from God," she says.
She married another man but they divorced and she returned to Mr Bello Abubakar.
"I am now the happiest woman on earth. When you marry a man with 86 wives you know he knows how to look after them," she said.
No work
Mr Bello Abubakar and his wives do not work and he has no visible means of supporting such a large family.
He refuses to say how he makes enough money to pay for the huge cost of feeding and clothing so many people.
Every mealtime they cook three 12kg bags of rice which all adds up to $915 (£457) every day.
"It's all from God," he says.
Other residents of Bida, the village where he lives in the northern Nigerian state, say they do not know how he supports the family.
According to one of his wives, Mr Bello Abubakar sometimes asks his children to go and beg for 200 naira ($1.69, £0.87), which if they all did so would bring in about $290 (£149).
Most of his wives live in a squalid, unfinished house in Bida; others live in his house in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital.
He refuses to allow any of his family or other devotees to take medicine and says he does not believe that malaria exists.
"As you sit here if you have any illness I can see it and just remove it," he says.
But not everyone can be cured and one of his wives, Hafsat Bello Mohammed, says two of her children have died.
"They were sick and we told God and God said their time has come."
She says that most of the wives see Mr Bello Abubakar as next in line from the Prophet Muhammad.
Indeed, he claims the Prophet Muhammad speaks to him personally and gives detailed descriptions of his experiences.
It is a serious claim for a Muslim to make.
"This is heresy, he is a heretic," says Ustaz Abubakar Siddique, an imam of Abuja's Central Mosque.
Last bolded part. Wow, just wow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7547148.stm
i live in a country with a batshit crazy president and no, english is not my first language
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This is absolutely hilarious.
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When he dies and the orgies begin. That could turn out okay for some adult entertainment market.
a man with 86 wives and you think hes never had an orgy?
whaaaaaaaaat
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He's 84
Well to be fair he is 84, he could have children in their 50s or 60s. Unless you were talking about the quarter of his age thing, which still is only 21.
The one thought that gives me solace is that, since he's so against medicine, he doesn't have any Viagra.
He's got Viallah.
Hugh Hefner?
I mean, he didn't marry them, but he didn't have to; he's a moderately secular person.
This guy is clearly working hard to make sure that we come back to a 1 to 1 parity in terms of available mates.
I gotta admit, that was absolutely fantastic.
Comfortable, permanent
Undisputed, every tense
Not a trace of what went left
More equal than the best
Unparalleled success
Everybody, V-impressed
:P
You're just jealous because his women outnumber yours 43:1.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Please, in their religion you don't have to respect or even love the girl. That takes care of 95% of the problem right there.
Comfortable, permanent
Undisputed, every tense
Not a trace of what went left
More equal than the best
Unparalleled success
Everybody, V-impressed
Hey what
I hope you're talking fundie sects only buddy
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NNID: Hakkekage
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
No offense intended. I generalize 'cause it's all the same drivel to me and I'm a big nasty atheist.
Comfortable, permanent
Undisputed, every tense
Not a trace of what went left
More equal than the best
Unparalleled success
Everybody, V-impressed
Well I am a hardcore atheist myself, and being Turkish, I know too many Muslims who perfectly love their women and respect them sincerely but yeah, I doubt a man with 86 wifes would actually love or respect any his women. Even he admits it; "they found me." I wish we were all blessed with that ability, being chick magnets ourselves
I guess he's the one.
It's not as great a power as it sounds! They went to him for his healing powers, do you really want to be a sickly chick magnet? We need higher standards.
Well he healed one of them with a headache. I think I can do that. Drink this holy water (I secretly added Advil) and you'll be healed.:winky:
You don't even need to add the Advil. Most headaches are caused by mild dehydration and it's the water you drink with the Advil that helps more than the pill itself.
You mean just the multiple coupling or the huge and obviously exploitative version of it? Because there's lots of "polyamorous" people or whatever they call it. I think you don't hear much about it here because it's not a legal form of marriage here, so it's all just informal.
(I call it being a dirty, dirty swinger)
I host a podcast about movies.
Any country that can produce murderous roving marketing students must be a pretty... interesting place.
well, hey, if you want to get a murderous roving marketing student gang going I'm totally up for it.
this was bolded but it actually makes a lot of sense. In some cultures having a mansion and a lambo says "I know how to look after you"
In some having multiple wives is the equivalent.
but they're listening to every word I say
that's what i am wondering as well. one possibility is people coming to him for his divine treatment? o_O
or pimping out his wives.
The history department mafia!