Multiple wives in Islam - permitted
Extramarital affairs in the West - not permitted, but also not a criminal offence in most countries.
That's pretty much as simple as it gets. You can have more than one girlfriend by law, but most women would not agree to that. By law you can't be married to more than one person, it's a clear difference to Islam. I don't it's right that you suggest adultery is generally accepted. It is not uncommon, but certainly in the society I live in it ranges from a forgiving partner to attempted murder or death in revenge. In Italy I've known of people killed because of it.
This what i meant JJ,a man in KSA having 4 wives = a single man in Europe having 4 single GF's.
I know there is a difference regarding officiality and some other things, but the critics of Islam always criticize Islam from the sexual relation point,what they say is Islam is immoral because it allows men to have sex with multiple women.But in practice the same goes for the European laws,as it doesn't disallow people to have sexual relationship with more than one person.
And if we talk interms of Morality,then having more than one GF is surely worse than having more than one wife,because most of the time if not all the times you will find the man who has 2 GF's for example is hiding the truth from both the girls,that means he is cheating both.But if I'm married to a woman and want to propose another one i have to tell her that i'm aleardy married,I musn't lie,even the the first one must be informed.
I know that not all the Europeans have multiple GFs or prefer to do that but i'm talking about the law,it doesn't prohibit being involved in more than one sexual relationship.So why our Islamic law is always criticized but not the European's?
The way Hoori was speaking about the allowance of 4 wives in Islam seems to me that she is contempting Islam for allowing a man to have multiple sexual relations,then why doesn't she contempt European laws for also allowing the same thing?