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What one thing could prevent depravity and fornication in Russia?

Well according to one legal advisor in Islamic law – or mufti – in Moscow, Ildar Alyautdinov, the answer is polygyny.

He told state-owned news agency RIA Novosti men having more than one wife at the same time would not only “ensure the enforcement of women’s rights” but there would also be “much less depravity and fornication, which is spreading so rapidly nowadays”.

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