"Those USSR examples are more to do with (lack of) freedom of speech/political matters, rather than questioning/supporting the multicultural state, Don and Volgadon. In muslim nations, BOTH the law of the land and the Koran say a man can take up to four wives...should it be that way for muslims in the USA and England?"

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WAV, you have the cart before the horse.

The lack of freedom in the USSR and other totalitarian states comes as a result of the state not allowing the populace to question or criticize it. Anything that doesn't conform to the arbitrary ideas of the state's dictatorial leaders, including their concepts of cultural imperatives, they suppress. And it is this that is the cause of lack of freedom (freedom of speech, freedom of dissent, etc.), not the other way around.

As to the matter of polygamy, the Koran says the following:

Marry such women as seem good to you, two, or three, or four. But if you fear that you will not do justice, then marry only one (4:3).

And a commentary by a Muslim scholar goes on to say:

Thus the Koran appears to clearly sanction polygamy, up to four wives. However, it also states that the man must deal justly, both materially and emotionally, with all four. A separate Koranic verse states this is humanly impossible: "And you cannot do justice between wives, even though you wish it." (4:129)

Tunisia recently banned polygamy on these grounds. Turkey, under Kemal Ataturk, banned polygamy decades ago. So the "four wives" cultural imperative is not an imperative at all.

Don Firth