A solution?

This word ‘crisis’ sounds quite alarming! When I hear that word I always get the picture that there’s some sort of state of emergency and something has to be done quickly or else we’ll be faced with a catastrophe. I honestly don’t know where all these spinsters have come from, I don’t of many in my community, maybe only two or three (believe me I'm from a BIG community) and even those aren't career women. I feel as though unbeknown to us they've suddenly crept in on us and taken over! And it seems that there are people out there who are doing something about it, sounds interesting.

Gone are the days when the parents arranged marriages for their children, there are now organisations that do the job for you. They hold ‘marriage events’ for Muslims looking for suitable partners, I suppose they’re a bit like speed dating events, and I was surprised to see how many were out there (even one in a mosque!) I've listed just a few. 
http://www.centralmosque.org.uk/3/1/19th-muslim-marriage-event
http://www.muslimmarriage-events.co.uk 

http://www.muslim-marriage-events.com
http://www.stareventsteam.co.uk

Syma Mohammed, a journalist with the Guardian newspaper wrote about her experience at one of these events that she went to. She said that the women outnumbered the men by about 5-1, and their average age was in their 30’s while their male counterparts were in their 20’s. She says that the women sat around waiting to be approached, but obviously with so many women to pick from there's bound to be disappointment, I'm sorry to say I find this practice a little bit degrading, I mean I'm sure they feel a bit humiliated as well. Getting all dressed up, hoping someone will notice them, coming back with not even a ‘how do you do!’

I found a quite a few articles that talked about the shortage of eligible men, one girl on her blog  actually suggested that it would be better if Muslim women married non-Muslim men, she said that she considered that the ‘lesser of two evils’. The other ‘evil’ was marrying into a polygamous marriage. I don’t know... I think that is a bit extreme, because, as we know polygamy is allowed in Islam, but a Muslim woman is forbidden from marrying a non-Muslim man. I think she must have very liberal views, I mean there are so many people out there who are ‘bending the rules’ to suit themselves. Another writer even claims that an Imam in Oxford is encouraging this practice!

 Even though I don’t know of any professional women who are part of a polygamous marriage, I expect that with the increase in more and more Muslim women choosing to work rather than stay at home, it is probable that when age creeps up on them they will be left with very few options and may very well choose polygamy.