Muslim career women in Britain are choosing to become involved in polygamous relationships because of a lack of suitable men.
Some of them even choosing to become second or third wives to married men, according to the Islamic Sharia Council.
The charity, based in Britain, gives legal guidance to Muslims and has said it is receiving a high number of queries from women struggling to find suitable partners.
Many of the women have also said they would prefer to hold down high-profile jobs rather than look after their husbands.
Taking more than one wife is illegal in the UK but men marry again in a nikah religious ceremony, allowing them to take up to four wives.
Mizan Raja, 35, who organises Muslim marriages around the world, told the Sunday Times, that he has had hundreds of calls in the past six months from women asking about becoming second wives.
Mr Raja said: 'The demand for these relationships is led by the women, not the men. In one generation women have become educated, entrepreneurial and professional.
'The Muslim community is struggling with this, how do you cope with women who wear trousers?'
He said that many Muslim men just wanted a 'homemaker' and to come home to a clean house and a plate of food on the table.
#1
Maybe this is the solution to the supermom problem. One wife has and raises the kids, while another is a money making professional, and the third is the housekeeper.
The trouble with this idea is that the women would quickly realize that the man is an unnecessary expense.
#2
Taking more than one wife is illegal in the UK but men marry again in a nikah religious ceremony, allowing them to take up to four wives.
The charity, based in Britain, gives legal guidance to Muslims and has said it is receiving a high number of queries from women struggling to find suitable partners.
Yeah, it's illegal. But, if you get caught, just start yelling about the Koran. That should scare the infidels off...
#3
For the sake of the children, one would want their mother to be the legal wife, and the career woman to legally be the mistress.
Clearly these women have not thought this through. While I am not a lawyer, it seems to me the career woman/Nth wife/legal mistress will be turning over her income to support another woman's kids, and getting no legal protections whatsoever, just for the opportunity to have a religiously sanctioned occasional bed partner.
In fact, wasn't that essentially the situation for the woman honour-killed with the daughters of the second wife up in Canada?
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Muslim career women in Britain are choosing to become involved in polygamous relationships because of a lack of suitable men.
