12/21/2007: Intel News Brief: Marry a Muslim and prove your Virginity:
Death the Alternative:

On her wedding night, Aisha Salim will hand her blooded sheets to her
in-laws as proof of her virginity, according to a story in The Daily
Telegraph of Australia.

But there's one problem. Being a modern English university graduate,
she is far from the traditional untouched Muslim bride.

Like most woman her age, Salim has smoked, drank, had sex and even
lived with one of her past boyfriends.

However, if the devout Muslim family of her soon-to-be husband - or
even her own family - knew this, she could be murdered.

Aisha has opted to have her virginity surgically restored in a
delicate but painful surgery called hymenoplasties -- where the hymen
is re-created from the already torn tissue, or a new membrane is
inserted.

"If my husband cannot prove to his family that I am a virgin, I would
be hounded, ostracised and sent home in disgrace," Salim told
England's Daily Mail.