Posted on 09/29/2009 10:02:41 AM PDT by LibWhacker
A leading Egyptian scholar has demanded that people caught importing a female virginity-faking device into the country should face the death penalty.
Abdul Mouti Bayoumi said supplying the item was akin to spreading vice in society, a crime punishable by death in Islamic Sharia law.
The device is said to release liquid imitating blood, allowing a female to feign virginity on her wedding night.
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In this country, we have rules against used car dealers turning back the odometer. I feel their pain.
Why doesn’t he just ask for a refund if it doesn’t work?
And yet the goats get a pass.
Keep the dowry, return the bride?
I can’t see the big deal about virginity.
In his country, if the arrangement is fraudulent, then all proceeds are earned.
Proving once again they can focus on the important issues...
What always fills me with pity is that many girls do not bleed the first time they have intercourse, and I can only envision the injustice and suffering this could cause in a Muslim society. For that reason alone a young girl might like some cosmetic enhancement for the event.
To perpetuate the car analogy, if someone sold you a used car and said it was “new” you might be upset if you found out about the switcheroo. In our country, we are pretty accustomed to the idea that we’ll probably not be marrying a virgin on our wedding night, but in that culture, I think it’s still a shameful thing to marry a harlot.
Only in an islamist society could this happen. Death penalty for faking virginity? Idiots.
In Islam, the HUSBAND pays the dowry to the bride. It's more accurately "bride price" than dowry (which is generally taken to mean assets given the bride by her family).
Ok - not for lunch-time reading...
8^)
Meanwhile, the French call Americans prudish for wanting Roman Pulanski in jail.
Since you're not an Arab, you do not fear comparison.
I understand what is happening, I just don’t understand why virginity itself, is such a big deal.
That’s the big reason?
You’ve got to get in touch with your primitive side... Imagine you’re a monkey who just climbed down out of the trees... You’ve got your eye on this pretty little primate when you learn she’s been had by every swinging scallywag in a neighboring troop. You’d be furious! That sort of thing would just scorch your cheerios. Well, like I said, you’ve got to get in touch with your primitive side.
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