“Remember that under the 1948 BNA if Barry is proved to have a bastard due to the existing marriage of his biological bigamous father Barry could be explicitly excluded from having dual UK citizenship and would only have the unitary USA citizenship of his single mom (assuming birth in the USA)...”
This is true EXCEPT in the case of Kenya, where Islamic polygamy was recognized by the British authorities and the law allowed it in the case of Muslims.
THAT IS WHY SADO WENT TO KENYA TO HAVE HER BABY.
I disagree.
Hawaii does not recognize bigamous marriages and neither does the UK including Kenya under the Kenya Marriage Act of 1902.
There is no evidence that the Hawaii marriage, if it happened (only reference in the HI divorce supports it...and comments in the INS files) was a Muslim marriage which it would have to have been for it to be a proper Muslin plural marriage.
Obama Sr.’s tribe was not traditionally Muslim and his father only converted by himself, not within the tribe. BHO Sr. was a hard-drinking Communist atheist and rampant sexual predator, not any kind of Muslim at all. BHO Sr. did not even pretend to have multiple Muslim wives in Kenya, only an official big-city white wife and a hidden tribal wife back in the village and some other action on the side where ever he could jump it.
Note that Barry's older brother, Malik...born Abongo, was neither born nor raised Muslim by BHO Sr. who was supporting him, but only converted as an adult and only then did Malik acquire several wives under post-colonial Kenya laws liberalized to enable Muslims greater compliance with Sharia.
Even for Muslim marriages in Kenya, it was a felony to marry outside the marriage contract in 1961.
• See Kenya Marriage Act of 1902 paragraph #49:
49. Whoever contracts a marriage under this Act, being at the time married in accordance with native law or custom or in accordance with Mohammedan law to any person other than the person with whom such marriage is contracted, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
kenyalaw.org/family/statutes/...?file=The+marriage+act.pdf
• BNA of 1948 Legitimation of persons born out of wedlock:
23.—(1) A person born out of wedlock and legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents shall, as from the date of the marriage or of the commencement of this Act, whichever is later, be treated, for the purpose of determining whether he is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, or was a British subject immediately before the commencement of this Act, as if he had been born legitimate.
(2) A person shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have been legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents if by the law of the place in which his father was domiciled at the time of the marriage the marriage operated immediately or subsequently to legitimate him, and not otherwise.
http://www.uniset.ca/naty/BNA1948.htm
“(2) Subject to the provisions of section twenty-three of this Act, any reference in this Act to a child shall be construed as a reference to a legitimate child; and the expressions “father”, “ancestor” and “descended” shall be construed accordingly.”