Don’t forget the rest of it. I’m sure you made an honest mistake.
"So do not incline completely [toward one] and leave another hanging**"**
So you won’t be able to treat a beautiful wife, like an old wife, but don’t neglect the old wife, for she is still your wife. Doesn’t cancel out 4:3.
Except that there are women, Arab women, who live under such arrangements. Are you calling something that is allowed according to Islam, heinous?
The provision for four wives was not made because of genocide, it was made to curb the men at the time, who had up to 8 or 9 wives. Don’t forget that Islam is an Arabic religion.
Again, my point is not to defend polygamy. If you’ve read any of my other posts you would see that I’m not very religious. My point is to show the contradiction between supposed faith, and practiced culture. The difference between you and me is that I’m not trying to use Islam to justify my opposition to polygamy.
Do I think men should take second wives? No, one is enough.