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Article: Muslim women in Europe take steps to fake virginity; Some doctors repair hymens or issue certificates to help ensure family honor for young women
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- July 5, 2006
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SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) - 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 silence - "something that
passes through non-official channels," ...