بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(In the name of Allah the most gracious, most merciful)

Assalaam Alaykum,
Are you looking for a Muslim tenant or roommate? BCMuslims.com has added a listing to allow landlords to post vacancies they may have or to allow people who may be looking for a roommate to do so as well. Through this listing:

• Landlords can post housing they may have for rent
• Potential Tenants can post what they are looking for
• People looking for roommates can post information about the space they wish to share

To date, most people post for rent ads at local Masajid which is sufficient  for those living in the area but not the community at large. We receive numerous emails throughout the year from students attending local universities/colleges or new immigrants who are looking for places to live. Most of those who contact us are looking for Muslim landlords. Therefore, we hope that these listings  will make it easier for people to find and/or advertise housing arrangements inshallah.

To view or add an ad please visit:
Housing for Rent - http://forum.bcmuslims.com/categories/housing-for-rent
Roommate Wanted - http://forum.bcmuslims.com/categories/roommate-wanted

To create an advertisement/posting:

1. Create an account
2. Create a posting
   

If you have suggestions in regards to other content you would like to see added to BCMuslims.com please email your suggestions to contactus@bcmuslims.com.

Lastly, please keep us in your supplications (du’a).

Wasalaam Alaykum,
BCMuslims.com Admin

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The first thing everyone is probably asking themselves when reading the subject of this email is “Do we really need another matrimonial website?” We believe the answer is yes. The second question that may come to mind is “Ok…why?” To that we would simply ask you to try the following. Do a Google or Bing search for “Muslim matrimonial”. You are likely to see a list of results such as the following:

SingleMuslim.com
MuslimMatrimony.com
Nikah.com
MuslimWedding.org

You can visit each of these and you’ll see pretty much the same thing. You can search of a brother or sister based on their age, affiliation/sect and location.

Now do a search of “online dating” and you will get a list results such as:

PlentyOfFish.com
KissCafe.com
LavaLife.com
Singles123.com

You can visit each of these sites and you’ll see pretty much the exact same content as you saw on the matrimonial websites with the exception of the ability to search by affiliation/sect. The first question we would ask is “Is looking for a husband/wife the same as looking for a girl/boy-friend?” Ask any married person and I guarantee you they would say that it’s no-where near the same.

The reason many of these sites look and feel the same is because the majority of them are created by the same companies. These are primarily created by Non-Muslim dating corporations that though that it would be easy enough to meet a new target market by adding the ability to search by the usual things as well by the affiliation/sect you’re looking for. How can a non-Muslim corporation know what type of information Muslims are looking for when trying to find a husband/wife? There are a few Muslim run websites but they seem to be following the same model as these dating sites.

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