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Article: Muslims in Europe seek operations to 'restore' virginity: M.D.s urged not to sign fake certificates, offer surgery to women
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 26, 2006
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SAINT-DENIS, France -- Young Muslim women in Europe are using
surgery and lies 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 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 Europe, where
some decry it as an attack on human rights.
The procedures are legal but shrouded in silence -- "something
that passes through nonofficial channels," via friends or the
Internet, said Dr. Nathan Wrobel. "There are ...