Posted by:
NeverMo in CA
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Date: November 05, 2014 12:13PM
no mo lurker Wrote:
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> In Kabul Beauty School, a true-story book about an
> American hairdresser who moved to Afghanistan and
> opened up a beauty parlor and school, she talks
> about having to sneak into the bridal chamber to
> provide the blood for one of her clients on her
> wedding day. The girl was not a virgin and if her
> family or the groom's family found out they would
> have killed her. This was not that long ago -
> maybe 15 years.
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Kabul-Beauty-School-American> -Behind/dp/0812976738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=14151
> 13117&sr=8-1&keywords=kabul+beauty+school
The insertion of a fake hymen is the most common operation performed on women in much of the Muslim world **today** in countries such as Egypt. I wish I could recall the name of it, but there is a documentary about virginity (women's virginity) in the Muslim world I showed to my students a few years ago. Maybe I can find a link on YouTube to post later.
There is also a recent UK TV documentary called "The Perfect Vagina" which, in one segment, profiles a young Muslim woman who has lost her virginity and because of that now fears for her life...living in London. (She is interviewed anonymously with her face not shown on camera, of course.) What was most disturbing was that after watching it, a very nice student who was an immigrant from Afghanistan (a guy) informed the class that if the young woman were to end up murdered, she would deserve it "because she committed sin and brought shame on her family." The rest of the class was aghast, to say the least.