{"id":30392,"date":"2012-01-20T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_syma_mohammed-why_british_muslim_women_struggle_to_find_a_marriag\/"},"modified":"2012-01-20T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T03:00:53","slug":"guardian_syma_mohammed-why_british_muslim_women_struggle_to_find_a_marriag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30392","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Syma Mohammed&#8211;Why British Muslim women struggle to find a marriage partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[We are speaking about]&#8230;the growing Muslim spinster crisis, which has been brewing for some time and is rooted in cultural, rather than religious, trends.<\/p>\n<p>First, there has always been a tradition for British men originating from the Indian subcontinent to marry women from their country of origin. Families encourage their sons to do so for a host of reasons, including the cultural expectation that girls from &#8220;back home&#8221; will stay with and look after their in-laws.<\/p>\n<p>The second trend is for Muslim men to marry &#8220;women of the book&#8221; (Christian or Jewish women), which is permissible in Islam. Men are more likely to work and socialise with British Christian women than their female Muslim counterparts, which leads to a higher chance of such marriages occurring&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2012\/jan\/18\/british-muslim-women-marriage-struggle\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[We are speaking about]&#8230;the growing Muslim spinster crisis, which has been brewing for some time and is rooted in cultural, rather than religious, trends. First, there has always been a tradition for British men originating from the Indian subcontinent to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30392\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,199,426,98,155,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-islam","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}