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Originally Posted by truthseeker
all this information is on the internet. All you have to do is to google it.
Originally Posted by truthseeker View Post
fathers would stick their fingers covered in a cloth into their daughters' vaginas a few hours before their daughters' weddings and display the cloth before everyone to prove that she was a virgin. I heard that it was practiced among some people in the Middle East in the very old days, especially in the southern part of Egypt, Iraq, Iran and Morocco. I wasn't sure exactly who these people were, because Egypt has Muslims, Christians and Jews in it. The southern part certainly is mixed with all these religions.
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Except it never happened, what you are referring to is the practice of the family keeping the sheets of the bed when the marriage was consumated, in both the Jewish and Muslim faith, if the new husband decided he didnt like the wife he would claim that she wasnt virginal, the brides family would produce the sheets to prove the new husband had in fact deflowered her.
You or someone you "heard" about the practice you refer to are in fact referring to the discredited works of Osama Abdullah, who while denigrating the Jewish and Muslim faiths used some reference in the Bible to prove this practice took place.
Incidentally the paragraph you posted in #33 can also be seen on this page
http://www.answer-islam.org/fathers_rape.html
Not even your own words eh?
If the charge of the woman not being virginal was used to get out of the betrothal, a midwife would examine the woman.