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| Politicians 'ignoring' polygamy | Politicians 'ignoring' polygamy |
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| Cultural sensitivity has prevented politicians from discussing the issue of polygamy in the UK, a leading Muslim peer has told the BBC. | Cultural sensitivity has prevented politicians from discussing the issue of polygamy in the UK, a leading Muslim peer has told the BBC. |
| Baroness Warsi, shadow minister for community cohesion, told Radio 4's Today programme it was time policy makers took the issue seriously. | Baroness Warsi, shadow minister for community cohesion, told Radio 4's Today programme it was time policy makers took the issue seriously. |
| She said she wanted registering all religious marriages to be considered to stop men marrying more than one wife. | She said she wanted registering all religious marriages to be considered to stop men marrying more than one wife. |
| Baroness Warsi said politicians had been ignoring the issue. | Baroness Warsi said politicians had been ignoring the issue. |
| "There has been a failure on the part of policy makers to respond to this situation," she said. | "There has been a failure on the part of policy makers to respond to this situation," she said. |
| "Some of it has been done in the name of cultural sensitivity and we've just avoided either discussing or dealing with this matter head on. | |
| "There has to be a culture change and that has to brought about by policy makers taking a very clear stance on this issue, saying that in this country, one married man is allowed to marry one woman," she added. |