{"id":736653,"date":"2022-01-05T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/british-bachelor-uses-billboards-to-search-for-a-wife\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:30:10","slug":"british-bachelor-uses-billboards-to-search-for-a-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/british-bachelor-uses-billboards-to-search-for-a-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"British bachelor uses billboards to search for a wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/British-bachelor-uses-billboards-to-search-for-a-wife.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LNTf_VFjB8w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Save Me From Arranged Marriage Billboard | Mohammad Malik Billboard | Mohammad Malik Advertisement\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNTf_VFjB8w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A British bachelor is taking an unorthodox approach to his search for the right mate: putting up billboards with his photo.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Malik, 29, had multiple billboards put up in the Birmingham, England, area bearing the phrase, &#8220;Save me from an arranged marriage.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The billboards direct interested women to his website, findmalikawife.com.<\/p>\n<p>Malik wrote on the website that a friend suggested he try advertising after he struck out on dating apps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just haven&#8217;t found the right girl yet. It&#8217;s tough out there. I had to get a billboard to get seen,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Malik said his ideal mate would be a woman in her 20s who shares his Muslim faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m open to any ethnicity, but I&#8217;ve got a loud Punjabi family &#8212; so you&#8217;d need to keep with the bants,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The bachelor said that despite the slogan on his billboard, he isn&#8217;t against arranged marriages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think arranged marriages have a place and tradition in many Islamic cultures. In fact, there are many studies that show that arranged marriages have many advantages,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;I just want to try and find someone on my own first.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Malik told the BBC his billboards, which are scheduled to remain up through Jan. 14, have resulted in a flood of responses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had the time to look through yet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I need to set some time aside &#8212; I hadn&#8217;t thought this part through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 5 (UPI) &#8212; A British bachelor is taking an unorthodox approach to his search for the right mate: putting up billboards with his photo. Muhammad Malik, 29, had multiple billboards put up in the Birmingham, England, area bearing the phrase, &#8220;Save me from an arranged marriage.&#8221; The billboards direct interested women to his website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}