NY Times Says A Bunch Of European Muslim Women Are Having Hymen Reconstructive Surgery
11 June 2008, 5:15 PM. By Guanabee Staff
A disturbing New York Times article today claims that more and more Muslim women living in Europe are undergoing hymen reconstructive surgery (ouch!) for their wedding nights. The Times claims this new wave of activity is inspired by the recent story of a French-Muslim, newlywed couple from Lille, in northern France, who are currently in litigation because the husband discovered his bride was not a virgin on their wedding night:
The domestic drama has gripped France. The groom, an unidentified engineer in his 30s, left the nuptial bed and announced to the still partying wedding guests that his bride had lied. She was delivered that night to her parents’ doorstep.
The court initially upheld the groom’s request for an annulment on the grounds that “the bride was in breach of contract, concluding that the engineer had married her after ’she was presented to him as single and chaste.’” This, thank Allah, caused an uproar amongst secular, Republican France.
There were calls in Parliament this week for the resignation of Rachida Dati, France’s justice minister, after she initially upheld the ruling. Ms. Dati, who is a Muslim, backed down and ordered an appeal.
Meanwhile, the Times tracks the cases of a few engaged, European-Muslim women who are ready to undergo the surgery. A woman from Montpellier who claims she really is a virgin, but that she had an accident on a horse when she was ten (Wait. Where have we heard that before?) says her terror over what this could mean for her profile is too great to risk:
“All of a sudden, virginity is important in France,” she said. “I realized that I could be seen like that woman everyone is talking about on television.”
Can we go back to bed now? Preferably with a man with a huge cock? Another woman interviewed anonymously said that she fears her father would beat her if he discovered she isn’t a virgin. She’s 32.
“He told me, ‘I will forgive everything but not if you have thrown dirt on my honor.’
There is some hope, though. The French College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians opposes the procedure “on moral, cultural and health grounds” and a spokesperson for the Islamic Center of Roubaix where the aforementioned Lille wedding took place, puts it best:
“The man is the biggest of all the donkeys,” said Abdelkibir Errami, the center’s vice president. “Even if the woman was no longer a virgin, he had no right to expose her honor. This is not what Islam teaches. It teaches forgiveness.”
In Europe, Debate Over Islam and Virginity [New York Times]
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my cousin’s wife did this like 2 or 3 times, she was in her 40’s at the time …just because she wanted to do something special for him. [disgusting!]
she wanted to do it one more time and the doctors wouldn’t let her do it again. so she went to mexico and got it done.
that is the biggest waste of money ever! she gets the surgery… is in pain while she recovers,
and then in 2 seconds she “loses her virginity” again [or whatever you want to call it]
if it’s to saves you from getting jailed, beaten or killed.. go get it done. but if it’s just for pleasure, it’s the most ridiculous thing ever.
it’s horrible what my people’s men inflict on our women but what can one say? perhaps the women should start calling bullshit some say but having lost a few female cousins and aunts to this mentality makes it frightening to tell muslim clerics and officials that this kind of thinking is backwards and how about men owning some of their weaknesses instead of putting it all on us?
already it’s a challenge to change centuries of backwards thinking within a culture that opposes most things western, even if we live in western societies, and still consider anglo saxons, westerners, gentiles, jews and whomever else and whatever you want to call them as infidels.
personally, i’m far too western and have strayed too far from the faith to believe in these cultural mores but i can’t even begin to tell you how many women go through this kind of shaming, denigration and humiliation on a daily basis because of this mentality (that being a man’s honour is tied to a woman’s chastity). the horror stories i heard from my aunts and other women in my family as a little girl and was even privy to witness on more than on occasion when visiting the “homeland” left me horrified and vowing to never, ever have any dealings with a muslim man, much less assimilate into muslim culture despite my very muslim last name.
thank goodness there are sensible muslims like Abdelkibir Errami. they make me less scared to stand up and call bullshit.