{"id":259707,"date":"2017-10-24T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=259707"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T20:44:59","slug":"100000-brits-sign-up-for-polygamous-dating-site-helping-muslim-men-find-multiple-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/100000-brits-sign-up-for-polygamous-dating-site-helping-muslim-men-find-multiple-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"100,000 Brits sign up for polygamous dating site helping Muslim men find multiple wives"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
No need for marriage: polyamory is a much better option than a contract similar to what you sign for buying things. Human beings are not \u201cthings\u201d and must stay free. And the free desire to live together cannot be attached to any contract. As long as living together gives you joy: stay together. If this joy disappears: say bye-bye! By the way, this sexist website provides multiple wives to one husband\u2026 but not multiple husbands to women: that\u2019s not equality. Polyamory support “one woman living with many men”, as well as the opposite, as long as they wish and without any legalization. That\u2019s freedom!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A website that helps Muslim men find \u201csecond wives\u201d in Britain has more than 100,000 users registered, it has been revealed. The practice has been accused of opening women, often younger than their husbands, to physical abuse and even trafficking.<\/p>\n

In the UK, polygamous marriages \u2013 in which a person has more than one spouse \u2013 are only recognized if they took place in countries where they are legal. British law, however, does not stop unregistered religious ceremonies from taking place.<\/p>\n

Most Muslims in Britain do not practice polygamy, but some interpretations of the Quran say that a man may marry two, three, or four women, so long as he can deal justly and fairly with each of them.<\/p>\n

SecondWife.com creator Azad Chaiwala says the website came from his\u00a0\u201cneed\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cthinking there\u2019ll be other people in my situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are other deceiving ways of doing it \u2013 affairs, prostitution etc \u2013 those are not necessarily good for relationships,\u201d\u00a0he told the BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere it is more honorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around 100,000 people have signed up \u2013 with men outnumbering women three to one, Chaiwala said. He denied the website was just for men, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes two hands to clap; a guy can\u2019t do it on his own. We\u2019ve got so many successful marriages and so many women signed up themselves\u2026 they are opting to enter this kind of relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yasmin Rehman of the Centre for Secular Space told the Daily Mail the website is \u201cdeeply dangerous\u201d and called on politicians to step in.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s promoting inequality and exploitation of women, and undermining what marriage is about. And he\u2019s making money out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rehman, who is a Muslim, added: \u201cI think he\u2019s flouting the law \u2013 anyone else would be subject to polygamy laws. It sits alongside websites like brides from abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cI meet women who have been trafficked and prostituted. I\u2019m fed up with this being accepted. There are Muslim women across the world fighting this, some at great risk to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gina Khan, of One Law For All, who herself has been part of a polygamous marriage, told the newspaper the website is \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a medieval practice for Muslim men who want to commit adultery and they are using religion. It is an abusive practice,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s impacting hundreds of British women and it\u2019s being ignored by the state in this country. You can bet your life they are vulnerable women. There are a lot of women who I have come across who have no say in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chaiwala says his website does not break the law, and claims it \u201cbenefits women.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/407595-muslim-multiple-wives-polygamy\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: No need for marriage: polyamory is a mu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":287451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}