Why One Muslim Girl Became a Born-Again Virgin for her Wedding Night

December 17, 2007

Author: DIANA APPLEYARD

Source: Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=502714&in_page_id=1879

When Aisha Salim marries her fiance in Pakistan next March, it will be the wedding of her dreams.

Wearing a veil and gown, she will be every inch the fairytale virgin bride and as befits her strict Muslim religion, after the ceremony, she will hand her blooded wedding-night sheets to her in-laws as proof of her virginity.

But far from being the traditional untouched bride that many Muslim families demand, she is a modern-day university graduate who has smoked, drunk, made love to - and even lived with - a previous English boyfriend.

To disguise the fact that she has had sex, she has paid for painful surgery to "restore" her virginity.