It is one of the biggest dating sites in the world and after 17 years,it has has led to over 50000 marriages. final week, it hit the headlines as matchmaker to two terrorism suspects. Tim Adams meets its founders in Wakefield The business books command you to follow your heart. It is 17 years since Adeem Younis took that advice and set up SingleMuslim.com. He was 20 and a design student at Wakefield College in Yorkshire with a passion for IT. Besides a desire to be his own boss, and there was a more urgentimperative.“Quite literally I would go home and there would be a big photo of my first cousin in Pakistan on the mantelpiece,” he said. “Mum would command me this cousin was powerful at making chapatis and all that. The idea was we would find married.”Because SingleMuslim.com is in effect a marriage site rather than a dating site, it also claims a high rate of successPeople call it ‘halal dating’ and that’s fine. Halal means being wholesome and lawful in your faithSingleMuslim.com subscribers pay £30 a month … Much of that money is invested in making the platform a secure space Related: Single Muslim women on dating: 'I don't want to be a submissive wife' Related: Why British Muslim women struggle to find a marriage partner | Syma Mohammed Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com