Monday - May 07, 2007

WTF?

It’s late and I need to be in bed asleep, dreaming of wild wenches and mountains of money. Instead I find myself sitting here, pondering the following story. I really don’t know what to say other than “the human race is doomed. DOOMED, I tell you.”

No other animal on the face of the planet (or within a hundred light-years of our little rock) could possibly conceive (pardon the pun) a concept as ludicrous as this.

Just when you thought you’d heard the absolute end-all consequences of Islamo-Freakism, the tricky little devils sneak up on you and throw you another curve ball that hurts your brain cells rather badly.

If you can’t make it past the ridiculous headline on this story without spewing your drink over your keyboard then you better not read the rest. It only gets worse. I’m going to go lie down now and pretend this story didn’t happen. Perhaps if I shut my eyes real tightly I can make it go away ....

Doctors Split On Hymen Repairs
(THE AUSTRALIAN) - May 08, 2007 12:00am

A debate is raging among doctors over Muslim women who ask for operations to reconstitute their hymens before marriage, and medical certificates stating they are virgins.

The controversy has flared in France, where gynaecologists say they are facing a growing number of requests from women desperate to avoid the repudiation that can follow the loss of chastity.

The phenomenon, which is also dividing doctors in other European countries, the US and Africa, is denounced by critics as a sign of social regression driven by Islamic fundamentalists.

Jacques Lansac, chairman of the French National College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians, is leading the campaign against what he describes as “an attack on the dignity of women”.

He has also issued advice against hymenoplasty – a surgical operation that involves reconstructing the membrane usually broken during the first act of sexual intercourse.

“We get more and more women coming in and saying that their brothers or fathers will kill them if they find out they’ve slept with a man. But it’s important to say no, because if we don’t we’re giving in to the fundamentalists,” Professor Lansac said.

However, he said some doctors were ignoring his advice in the hope of protecting patients from being ostracised or beaten. Isabelle Levy, an author who studied the issue for her book Religion in the Hospital, said the search for chastity certificates and hymenoplasties stemmed from conflicting pressures among France’s five million Muslims.

“On the one hand, young Muslim girls born in France go out a lot more than they used to,” she said. “They are modern and they have adventures like other Europeans – which never happened in the past.

“But on the other hand, fundamentalism is spreading and these girls are getting sent back to their countries of origin to marry. And they will be rejected if it is found out that they are not virgins.”

- Yep, there’s more to this story if you can stop laughing long enough to read it ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/07/2007 at 11:02 PM   
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