Anti-Islamic headlines are wearyingly familiar. But ‘The Men With Many Wives’ is ludicrously genius.

Apparently most Muslim women in the UK in their 30’s are desperate for marriage.

And Muslim men just follow their libidinal instincts.

Well, according to last night’s Channel 4 documentary ‘The Men With Many Wives,’ marriage is our sole objective in life, whether it is in a monogamous or polygamous marriage.

Thus ageing single women amalgamated with men driven by sex drives leads to a booming matrimonial business in the UK.

Apparently the participants thought they were resonating with the masses.

FYI, women are not socially inadequate if they are single and certainly don’t “need to be married.”

And women should not be compared to a “newspaper that you can scrunch up and throw away.”

This was said by the husband we were supposed to find amiable and endearing.

As if the programme wasn’t sexist enough, the owner of the budding matrimonial business said the main demand from men when searching for wife number 2, 3 or 4 is, “the body has to be in good proportions.”

If that point was supposed to give credence to the Islamic perspective, he was way off mark.

Then you have the Malaysian chap who is trying to discuss the good qualities of his wives as they both dutifully serve him dinner.

It’s alright for some.

The whole documentary makes a farce of this Islamic ruling.

Do women really feel that covering up with a niqab is as fickle as covering an expensive car?

Which begs the question, is it only Muslim women that cover that will ever consider being a second or third wife?

Polygamy in Islam will always be an incendiary topic for non-Muslims.

And it certainly doesn’t help matters when the groom who is marrying wife number 3 says: “By the time I get back, inshallah, I’ll be happily married,” before swiftly correcting himself by saying, “I already am happily married!”.

And the recurrent unpalatable theme throughout the documentary certainly defies any feeling from any Muslim woman I know; woman feels jealous that her husband is re-marrying. He is not too bothered about her feelings.

Because apparently caring about her feelings comes lower down in the hierarchy of how to be a good Muslim. And she begrudgingly accepts his will to, er, share himself with the next wife.

According to one of the men, “This is Islam.”