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Equal Rights v. Guys Who Speak for God, Pt. 58974
13 December 2004
The Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) testified before the Ugandan parliament that a domestic relations bill recognizing a woman's co-ownership of family land, and another proposal calling for the abolition of polygamy, were declarations of hostility to Islamic faith and law. "'We believe that our religion has answers to all social problems and we don't want anybody to tamper with the already enshrined solutions,'" said a UMSC representative, Dr. Abbas Kiyimba. "'If a man has the capacity to marry another wife, why should he be refused?'"

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