From the files of perversion in islam....Restoring one's virginity

How telling that the majority of patients are muslim women. Seems to be fitting that this is being posted on International Women's Day. I mean no disrespect by the last line. How many ways can we count that islam degrades, subjugates, persecutes and vilifies women and young girls?

This is just one more form of Female genital Mutilation as far as I am concerned. Notice the punishment for not being a 'virgin' on the night of your wedding. Dishonoring your family, being disowned, beaten and of course the time honored muslim honor killing to restore the family honor.

From Creeping Sharia.

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‘Virginity surgery’ on the rise for Muslims in Europe

Another timely story for International Women’s Day. via ‘Virginity surgery’ is on the rise across Europe | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 07.03.2011.

Facing cultural and religious pressure, women are turning to hymenoplasty surgery to give the illusion that they are virgins before marriage. The operation is particularly popular among Europe’s Muslim population.

Many people might argue that there’s a lot of pressure on today’s youth to have sex – at least in the Western world. After all, young people are bombarded with suggestive advertising campaigns and tales of young celebrities gone wild every day. But for some girls and young women in countries around the world, the pressure is different: they’re to remain virgins until marriage for cultural and religious reasons.

In these cases, the consequences of having premarital sex can include disownment and violence. A special surgery, however, can help women in such situations. Hymenoplasty, or “virginity surgery,” as it’s sometimes called, gives patients the physical appearance of being virgins.

“Lots of young women come to see me to get this operation done because they are forced due to their cultural backgrounds to be virgins going into their marriage,” says plastic and aesthetic surgeon Dr. Stephan Günther, who performs the operation in the western German city of Düsseldorf.

“They are mostly Muslim women. We do a local anesthesia and we stitch the cuts together.”

Unlike other operations that Günther performs, hymenoplasty is largely cloaked in secrecy. Most women who come to him don’t want anyone to ever find out that they’ve had their virginity artificially restored through an operation that can almost guarantee bleeding the next time they have sexual intercourse.

“It’s the tradition and my religion that have pushed me to do this because I know that when I get married, I have to get a virginity certificate and so my hymen has to be intact,” she says. “I’d prefer to just simply admit that I’m not a virgin, but if I said that, heads would roll. I’d be disowned.”

Related:

UK: Muslim women getting virginity repair operations