When my friend first told me she was looking for a partner on Minder, I thought it was a typo.
"Surely she means Tinder," I thought.
She didn't. Minder is a real thing, an app Muslims use to browse local singles, much like Tinder.
As a Muslim, you get used to people not understanding your life. They don't get why you cover your hair or why you don't eat during Ramadan, the holy month of fasting. And they definitely don't get how Muslim relationships work. I've been asked countless times if we get hitched solely through arranged marriages. (We don't.) Some people seem to have a notion Islam is stuck in the 15th century.
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