Virginity...at a cost

Chastity can be a beautiful thing. Or it can be a death warrant for young Muslim women, who are Going to extremes to be virgins.

Hymen repair, fake virginity certificates and other deceptions, said to be commonplace in some Muslim countries, are practiced in France and elsewhere in Europe, where Muslim girls are more emancipated but still live under rigid codes of family honor.

Such ploys have saved many a young woman from scorn and worse...even death. Honor killings are rampant in certain Middle Eastern cultures, as well as parts of Africa.

Chastity is a moral forced upon women, by men who do not live to the same standards.