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Jordanian fatwa bans pre-marital virginity check
2009-08-11
[Al Arabiya Latest] A religious Jordanian council has issued a fatwa banning male suitors from demanding virginity checks on girls who they planning to marry, media reports said Monday. The Jordanian Council of Iftaa, the body in charge of issuing contemporary religious edicts, issued its ban to curb the growing trend of suitors asking for what is commonly known as the "hymen-check" because they suspect their brides-to-be.

At least 1,000 virginity tests are requested every year, Dr. Moemen al-Hadidi, chairman of the National Forensic Center (NFC), told Al Arabiya, adding "this is not a big number when compared to other countries in the world."

Before the ban, every man had the right to file a request that his future wife be examined to make sure she is a virgin.

The fatwa now regulates such tests and states that a virginity test can only be conducted if necessary and it should be based on an official request by the judicial authorities.

For some Jordanians the hymen-check is as an insult to women and their families while others argue that it is the man's right to request such an examination in light of the increasing liberalism in the Jordanian society.

Critics, mostly women's rights organizations, argue that men's chastity should be tested as well.

The rate of honor crimes in Jordan has remarkably risen and in most cases, a girl is killed based on a suspicion and there is usually no proof that she actually had sex outside marriage.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Delicious cookies are delicious...
Posted by: badanov   2009-08-11 17:56  

#4  wow-you have been warned! by an expert,no less
Posted by: Waldemar Flinerong8399   2009-08-11 06:59  

#3  There is a clinic in Haifa whose profits are going to decrease dramatically.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-08-11 05:04  

#2  Look, that doesn't work. Okay. Save your time and trouble. I'm in the biz, hosting that is. Security, filtering, routing...etc.

You don't like something, say so, and be nice. I will be respectful. Be arbitrary, and the Chinese have nothing on what can be arranged. Okay?

Injun, I'm the one who poop-listed you.

It wasn't just "like posting some GPS coords". You confirmed the target in your subsequent comment. One can be judged as a heat-of-the-moment and sink-trapped; two isn't.

There's been numerous statements by the mods saying (among other things) that if you threaten a US public official or a US citizen on the Burg, you're going to either get sinktrapped, or if it's blatant, poop-listed. If you've been here as long as you say, you ought to know that.

The decision to keep you poop-listed rests with Fred.
Posted by: Injun GrinesingHEH   2009-08-11 02:45  

#1  [Injun Grinesing9686 has been pooplisted.]
Posted by: Injun Grinesing9686   2009-08-11 02:31  

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