Polygamy is seen as a cultural right and assert that the courts should respect and protect. The primary claim is that no culture is superior to another and, thus, the courts should be prevented from imposing western liberal values on a cultural group that does not share these values. Most of the feminist literature refuses to recognize this approach and claims that it perpetuates power relations within a patriarchal society. Author addresses this complex issue and argues that as a rule, prohibitions on discrimination between men and women as well as violations of basis human rights should be applied as overriding principles. Author argues further that the underlying motives of legislation or court decisions should be examined in certain cases as courts, on occasion, actually perpetuate discrimination between differental cultural groups, on the pretext that 'women's rights should be protected.'