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Part 1 What is behind Christianity banning polygamy before some Muslim states? The primary reason Christianity banned polygamy long before Muslim states is not actually rooted in the Bible, but rather in  the pre-existing pagan laws of ancient Greece and Rome, where Christianity first developed.  [1, 2]  When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, it absorbed the strict Greco-Roman legal tradition of  socially imposed monogamy . In contrast, Islam originated in the Arabian Peninsula, a region where polygamy was a deeply rooted tribal tradition that the Quran chose to regulate and restrict rather than entirely eliminate. [1, 3, 4, 5, 6] 1. The Greco-Roman Cultural Legacy (The Main Driver) Centuries before Jesus was born, ancient Greece and Rome had already outlawed polygamy. [3]  The Roman Law:  To Romans, marrying multiple wives was viewed as a "barbarian" practice. A Roman citizen could legally have only  one wife at a time . T...

"How women's lives were revolutionised in Tunisia" Notice the BBC's careful choice of words: "These Tunisians are not doing at all badly. This is one imagines they are as emancipated as any girl can get" "He [the first president] gave ... He banned ... He introduced ..." "He was the liberator of Tunisian women." Women as passive creatures, victims waiting for a saviour, have no agency of their own. Now, imagine that someone says that this or that British, French or German leader was the liberator of British, French or German women. It doesn't happen because that not how it happned. But in a country like Tunisia, Egypt or Syria, an "enlighteneed dictator" has to be there to liberate women. If one looks at the movies, posters, photographs of Iranian university students, upper middle class Egyptian women on the beaches, meetings and social gatherings of the women of the elite, etc., of the 1950s and 1960s (google...