The Joke's On The Terrorists

What's the world coming to when a poor jihadist stands a good chance of blowing himself up for some number of virgins, only to find out they are of the re-cycled variety courtesy of Europe's medical community.

Unfortunately, I imagine it isn't a laughing matter for the increasing number of Muslim women in Europe who find themselves having to seek out just such a procedure, or false certification.

via AP

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 nonofficial channels," via friends or the Internet, said Dr. Nathan Wrobel. "There are circuits that lead women to me."

Wrobel is one of an unknown number of gynecologists in France who are willing to repair hymens, the membrane usually broken by the first act of sexual intercourse. He was one of the few doctors willing to talk about it.

Wrobel says women come to him having convinced themselves that the procedure will somehow reverse the irreversible. "They tell me, 'I'll be a virgin again. You will make me a virgin,' which in reality is totally false .... It's a secret we share."

Comments

[annie]

That's besides all those young Muslim girls who are forced to endure female circumcision, often performed with a razor blade and no anaesthetic.

Barbaric!!

[jamie]

I am trying to figure out why you think this is news.