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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Allāhu Akbar

In today’s New York Times ( Surgery Offers Muslim Women Illusion of Virginity) Elaine Sciolino and Souad Mekhennet write that more and more women, chiefly Muslim women, in Europe undergo “hymen restoration surgery” to create the illusion of virginity (hopefully only for the chaps who marry them…)

The story has of course a more serious side (cultural hypocrisy and functional enslavement of women in some cultures) and I’m not going to comment on that – feel free to draw your own conclusions, but take one hypothetically hypocritical hymenoplasty, throw in tummy tuck, rhinoplasty, fake boobs, and...

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