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A Muslim inventor in the UK has developed a website to help Muslims find second wives — and is now peddling a similar app to polygamists, many of whom imagine themselves Christian.
Azad Chaiwala, who has only one wife has always hoped for a second so he started a website in 2014 — Secondwife.com — for himself and others like him to help fulfil their dreams.
When he was 12 years old, Azad Chaiwala saw a man with two wives in a Saudi Arabian airport on his way back to the UK from Pakistan. Chaiwala, who is now 33 and lives in the city of Sunderland, UK, said that was the moment he knew he wanted more than one wife. Today, 11 years later and two children into his first marriage, he still feels the same way. With a busy schedule and little luck on his own, Chaiwala decided to create a website for himself, and other men like him, looking for their next wife.
Theresa May has criticised the concept of “safe spaces” designed to ensure debate does not cause offence to students in universities.
The prime minister said it was “quite extraordinary”, suggesting it could constrain innovation of thought and harm the country’s economic and social development.
Safe spaces have been criticised for shutting down robust debate in universities, while supporters say they are necessary to stamp out abusive behaviour such as racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia on campuses.
MORE THAN half of secondary school pupils believe that people have souls, a survey has revealed.
The majority of those questioned (52 per cent) also said that they agreed with the statement “I believe that life has an ultimate purpose” and 45 per cent believe in god.
But a an equal number - 45 per cent agreed with the statement “the scientific view is that God does not exist”.
THE Government is facing a backlash over its plans to allow faith schools greater freedom over selection amid fears of extremism and segregation in Muslim institutions.
It comes as a Department for Education report revealed that attempts at creating diversity in new faith schools is failing.
A Scottish court has given secularist campaigners approval to challenge strict rules requiring all school pupils to attend religious observance assemblies.
Humanist Society Scotland (HSS) has accused Scottish ministers of acting unlawfully by refusing to give pupils aged 16 and above the right to opt out of religious observance, despite recommendations from a UN human rights committee.
A new hard-hitting video exposes the gender identity crisis and explains how in the name of tolerance, diversity, and freedom that children and families are deliberately being targeted.
Produced by Family Life International NZ, the video, Family Planning’s Manufactured Gender Identity Crisis, delves into the concept of identity and the direct and deliberate attack on sexual norms that entices people to give in to selfish whims and fantasies.
Frozen embryos may be better and safer than fresh embryos for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who use in vitro fertilization to conceive children, new research by an international consortium has found.
The collaboration between the Yale School of Public Health, 13 universities in China and Penn State College of Medicine showed that frozen embryos may improve the rate of live births and lower the rates ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and pregnancy complications in women with PCOS. The scientists believe this is because frozen embryo transfer allows a woman’s ovary to recover from potentially harmful ovarian stimulation during in vitro fertilization and also allows time for her exposed endometrial lining to shed.
Until this week, the proposed plebiscite on whether Australia should legalise same-sex marriage had been light on detail. What would be the wording of the question? When would it take place? Would there be public funding for both a “yes” and a “no” campaign?
The government has now introduced a bill into the parliament that provides the details and mechanics of the plebiscite.
I was at All Souls Church, Langham Place last night for the launch of a new course from the team which has brought us Christianity Explored. This course, based on the familiar format of short films sparking discussion in groups arranged in a course taking place over several weeks, is called “Life Explored”, and focuses on understanding the character of God and how he satisfies our deepest human needs, as opposed to the idols to which we are so often addicted and which fail to satisfy. As expected the church was packed with a wide range of people including many under 40’s and quite a few church leaders that I recognized from around the country who are looking for fresh ways to present the Gospel in their neighbourhoods and constituencies.