We keep hearing about how wonderfully many Muslim communities in the West assimilate, but the website SecondWife.com indicates otherwise. 

According to a new report in the Washington Times, Second Wife's founder, Azad Chaiwala, states that in just three short months, 100,000 British Muslims have joined the site and its sister site Polygamy.com looking for multiple marriage partners.

Chaiwala is aiming for 1 million members and cites the acceptance of same-sex marriage as the reason sharia marriages should be accepted too: 

“The tabloids […] ignore the undeniable successes of these websites and instead prefer to gorge themselves on controversial news stories, notwithstanding that polygamy is now becoming increasingly accepted outside of Islam, and is gaining validity as an alternative lifestyle for men and women dissatisfied with more conventional marital arrangements,” a press release for Polygamy.com read on Wednesday. 

“Gay marriage is one instance of an unconventional marital arrangement becoming common currently within Canada, the US, and the UK etc. Leading polygamy commentators, including Azad, call for the same rights for polygamists.”

Mr. Chaiwala countered critics earlier this summer when he asked the Daily Mail why anyone should protest “a man [who] wants to get married to multiple partners in an honorable manner.”

The website founder asked why anyone would "have an issue" with polygamy. 

With the West's growing Muslim population -- and of communities that are more traditional -- there seems to be a market for Chaiwala's business. Last summer the Times of London reported that there are already 100,000 of these sharia-compliant polygamous marriages in the U.K. 

Ironically, Western liberals should be decrying this disturbing trend at every turn, especially considering that polygamy has been proven not to empower women, but subjugate them. Even the left-wing outlet Slate wrote of polygamy's detrimental impact on women: 

As economist Robert H. Frank has pointed out women in polygynist marriages should have more power because they’re in greater demand, and men should wind up changing more diapers. But historically, polygamy has proved to be yet another setup that screws the XX set. Because there are never enough of them to go around, they wind up being married off younger. Brothers and fathers, realizing how valuable their female relations are, tend to control them more. And, as one would expect, polygynous households foster jealousy and conflict among co-wives. Ethnographic surveys of 69 polygamous cultures “reveals no case where co-wife relations could be described as harmonious.”

But who are we to judge? All cultures are equal, right?