These "salafi" mosques and their Imams are preying on gullible Somali women to entice convict "reverts".
They think the Somali community is filled with people who have no cultural identity and no pride.
Don't let them "Akhi" and "Ukhti" your sister into marriage.
It's the same mosques that encourage Somali women to lower their meher demand for "the sake of Allah" because these broke "reverts" cannot afford meher.
Hence the horrible "Cheap and clean" rumour.
Allah has given you the right for meher for a reason, if he cannot afford to get married, how is he going to afford to pay the bills? Get a grip.
People underestimate the role these pathetic so called sheikhs and mosques do to our community. Years ago, i was chatting to some somalis and then this somali friend says there is this black revert who wants to meet you. i say what? and he goes yeah he wants to meet. bear in mind i don't know what this black guy wants.
so in the masjid we go and i see this guy who looks like he just came from a prison house. tatoos all over and stuff. he starts saying asalamu alkium in the worst cockney accent i have heard. Plesantries were exchanged. we talked abit. i then say heard you wanted to meet me. what's up.
He goes' and i kid you not, with his limited vocab..... i heard good things about you and etc etc and i have a favour to ask. you see i am interested in this somali girl who is related to you according to the brothers and i want you to speak to her dad for me.
i looked at him and said how long did you know her for. he goes for 4 weeks and she is the one. i am serious. i am going to look after her etc etc the whole shebang.
so i asked him what do you do for a living? umm i volunteer in the local masjid dawah scene (probably how he met her) i dont work at the moment. I get job seekers.
Do you have a place?
No i live with my mom but that will change. obviously when you get married and have a child council gives you a flat innit
have you got qualifications? no i finished school at 16 and i must admit i did not ahve the best life but i am trying to be a good man.
Yeah i am sure bro. but how are you going to stand in front of the father if you dont have a job or a flat. This is where it gets interesting. Oh dont be a money man bro. Life is not all about the money. we gotta do what is right. Money comes and goes. I am going to do everything in my power to look after her. we will be good to each other The more he talked the worse it got. Thankfully no one was with us.
I did the only thing a sane somali man would do. I told him. Listen, stay away from her and her family. I will not introduce you. I cannot go to her father with you not having anything to support her. Before you marry find a job a flat and show me you can support yourself and her and maybe i will think about it.
He started becoming aggressive and said he is going to meet her father one way or another without me. I smiled at him and said go right ahead. And said my salams and went out.
He never did approach the dad.
The cheek of marrying a woman without a job or a house. No asian or arab would even consider him a friend let alone a prospect marrying a female relative. And yet this con thinks he can marry a somali woman just like that. Unfortunately we have a poor reputation and it is our women who suffer the consequences of lack of protection from this bandits