Peter Krupa

It turns out there was more to that Bronx fire situation I posted about awhile back. I made an off-hand comment about male-dominated Muslim culture being kind of a problem, but I was a little more right than I realized. Turns out the husband taxi driver was actually a husband twice. He had two wives living in that building.

And today, the New York Times gets a gold star for covering polygamy in the New York African immigrant community. This is the part of the show where cultural relativism starts to look a little bit sick:

Don’t-ask-don’t-know policies prevail in many agencies that deal with immigrant families in New York, perhaps because there is no framework for addressing polygamy in a city that prides itself on tolerance of religious, cultural and sexual differences — and on support for human rights and equality.

Tolerance. Which is all well and good until someone gets her genitals mutilated and is forced at the age of 15 to marry an abusive stranger. If that’s their culture, that’s fine with me.

As long as they keep it in their own shitty country.