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Blog October 2009 Muslims seeking on wrong website Why are there so many young people looking for someone to love and marry on the Internet? They are found on just about every website. Amongst the most popular are Facebook, Twitter and Gumtree. Recently I have researched two other websites namely Zoosk and Woome. The idea was to find out how many Muslims were registered here. The question is: ‘Why do Muslims seek other Muslims on a non-Muslim website?’ What do they wish to achieve with a website where the membership is mainly non-Muslim? Now it used to be that young people attended weddings in the hope that they find the person of their dreams there. Parents used to broker shamelessly on their children’s behalf in order to see them married to the “right” person with the “right” background and ultimately the next wedding you as a young single muslim attended, would be your own. Thus this very, uncomplicated method of finding a spouse, stayed around for a long time. Some young people were successful in wooing someone on their own at these weddings and similarly their young friends met spouses at their weddings. That was the way it was. Now young people don’t attend weddings as much as they used to, and if they do, it is not with the intention of finding a prospective life partner. They waste hours on Facebook talking about nonsensical issues,their problems and broadcast their private life to rest of the world. One has to wonder about their intellect and and the need to tell all. So why am I on these websites? To advertise and network of course. The problem is that there are very few Muslims on these sites. In order to contact anybody, one has to be a member. That’s exactly what I had to become in order to contact or be contacted by the other members. It had interesting results to say the least. I realized that I needed to get these Muslim members to visit www.singlemuslims.co.za. So I came up with simple but ingenius strategy. It was a big risk that I took but it paid off. After I signed up two members in one week from one of these sites, it became easier. I don’t feel guilty about luring potential muslim members from these sites, because as far as I am concern, I’m doing them a favour by steering them in the right direction. After all, you see a doctor when you’re ill and not a vet. Like I suspected they didn’t find many muslim members to contact. This ultimately led to their contacting non-muslim members which is a complicated and a mostly futile endeavour, as muslim women are not allowed to marry non-muslim men according to the Shariah of Islam. If you still don’t get the gist of this blog, then let me spell it out to you in simple terms: Log on to www.singlemuslims.co.za and get a life. A happy one with the one that was found by us, especially for you.