{"id":251029,"date":"2016-06-20T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/35000-brits-sign-up-for-dating-site-helping-muslim-men-find-multiple-wives\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T23:10:09","slug":"35000-brits-sign-up-for-dating-site-helping-muslim-men-find-multiple-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/35000-brits-sign-up-for-dating-site-helping-muslim-men-find-multiple-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"35,000 Brits sign up for dating site helping Muslim men find multiple wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.06\/thumbnail\/57680193c4618872278b45b4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Nearly 35,000 Britons have signed up for a controversial new dating website designed to help Muslim men land up to four \u201cwives.\u201d<\/p>\n<div readability=\"83\">\n<p>According to the site\u2019s creator, 33-year-old Azad Chaiwala, secondwife.com promotes <em>\u201cfidelity, morality and old-fashioned values.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUsers police each other and every picture is vetted for decency. We do not allow cleavage,\u201d<\/em> the East\u00a0Midlands-based businessman explained.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DfDuanyeKII\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe modern-day version of looking for a second wife is disrespectful to women, and it is not using the Islamic teaching in a fair way. It ends up in a deteriorating relationship between the husband and first wife.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though secondwife.com caters exclusively to practicing Muslims, inspired by the site\u2019s success, Chaiwala, who is of Pakistani origin, launched a similar service aimed at all faiths, called polygamy.com. Since the site went live early this year, 7,000 people have signed up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2srKP7SgI_Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, not everyone is sold on the idea. Muslim MP Khalid Mahmood has dismissed the venture as \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt puts a person in huge peril because they are not allowed to claim, as a partner, on his estate. It is not acceptable and puts individuals very much at risk, it puts them at a huge disadvantage,\u201d<\/em> MP Perry Barr warned.<\/p>\n<p>Though bigamy is illegal in the UK and carries a sentence of up to seven years, Chaiwala argues that Islam allows a man to have up to four wives.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is my wedding, I do not need to have a piece of paper. Is it illegal to have a mistress?\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPeople go to a nightclub and have a one-night stand and that\u2019s the end of it. Men go with prostitutes; people look for swingers\u2019 clubs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA man wants to get married to multiple partners in an honorable manner, he wants to share his love and resources &#8211; why do you have an issue with that?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/347517-wives-dating-website-muslim\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 35,000 Britons have signed up for a controversial new dating website designed to help Muslim men land up to four \u201cwives.\u201d According to the site\u2019s creator, 33-year-old Azad Chaiwala, secondwife.com promotes \u201cfidelity, morality and old-fashioned values.\u201d \u201cUsers police each other and every picture is vetted for decency. We do not allow cleavage,\u201d the East\u00a0Midlands-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}