Re: Retro virginity

On May 31, 1:53�pm, aspasia wrote:
On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:00:33 +0100, Nick Spalding <spald...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Irwell wrote, in <49k4k918mqoj$.f6h6dyzrf3ol....@xxxxxxxxxx>
on Fri, 30 May 2008 19:12:44 -0700:

Seems that some Muslim women in France are having a 'hymen' retro-fit
before getting married.
** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**

The front page of the global edition of The Times today has a story of a
Muslim marriage that was annulled by a French court on the grounds that
the bride was not a virgin.

<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/>

Ghastly! �The French are now reaping the fruits of their
inward-looking �"mission civilatrice" by kissing up to the enemy
within. � If they had never let the N.African Muslims into France,
their current situation might never have arisen. But to admit them, as
equal under French law, �then to house them in ghettos in the far
banlieux, to treat them, re: jobs, higher education, social contacts,
like Jews used to be treated (and still are in some contexts), only
invited radicalism. �

This, in addition to the problems of their own religion which (read
the Koran) mixes messages (like most "holy books")about how to relate
to "the other".

Don't take this as France-bashing! �We wouldn't HAVE a
United States if the French hadn't come to our rescue with money,
supplies, �Lafayette, and most of all, the French fleet which
allowed GW to defeat Cornwallis, just when everything
looked hopeless.* �

When our troops (finally!) arrived in Europe in 1917,
the word was: �"Lafayette, nous voila!"

�*The French hated England -- "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." --
so much that they helped saved our Revolution, and in the process so
depleted their treasury; that it was one of the major factors leading
to *their* �Revolution.

Aspasia

I would understand it if the French enforced some Islamic law
regarding polygamy in order to give equal protection to the several
women of the marriage, or to give the tired husband some slack.

But to enforce a punitive law against a non-virgin woman is totally
against l'esprit Gallique.
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