Saudi imam encourages polygamy as 'women expire, unlike men'

Islam allows men to marry up to four women, only if they can do justice to all of their wives. Some Muslim women reject the idea of their husband marrying more than one and treat it as an injustice in itself, whereas others have embraced and even encouraged their own husbands to marry a second woman.

However, men across the world have undoubtedly used the religious decree to marry as many women as they wish, irresponsibly treating it as some sort of a duty to marry more than one woman, trapping his wife into an abusive polygamous marriage.

Recently, a Twitter hashtag emerged which translates to "marry a second wife if you can", which restarted the debate on social media. Unsurprisingly, it was met with anger. 

But one tweet in particular, however, caused just as much of a stir as the entire hashtag. A Saudi man, Majid al-Fahad, claiming to be a sheikh, said he was considering of divorcing his wife and marrying another because "a woman 'expires', unlike a man". 

Twitter went into meltdown.

Fahad was called a beast and accused of succumbing to "animalistic instincts".

He was also called out for leaving out some very important details regarding the laws surrounding polygamy in Islam.

"You are following your own religion, not the religion of Prophet Mohammed", said one comment.

Some even thought the account was fake... as though objectifying women is some sort of a rare phenomenon.