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Article: European Muslims Resort to Virginity Ploys
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- June 26, 2006
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ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-26-2006
Dateline: SAINT-DENIS, France
Chastity can exact a painful price from young Muslim women, forced into lies or surgery to go to the marriage bed as virgins.
Hymen repair, fake virginity certificates and other deceptions, said to be commonplace in some Muslim countries, are practiced in France and elsewhere in Europe, where Muslim girls are more emancipated but still live under rigid codes of family honor.
Such ploys have saved many a young woman from scorn and worse. But they also clash with the more liberal social mores of France and Europe, where some decry it as an attack on human rights.
The procedures are legal but shrouded in ...