Because the web magazine Slate must take all of its cues from what others are talking about in the mainstream media – though, of course, that's how every website works – and then argue the opposite of general norms, they've latched on to yesterday's Wall Street Journal article about Muslim women having their hymen's reconstructed so they can marry as "virgins." (To be fair, the Times latched on to it to, and then wrote its own piece.)

You know how many in the West would frown on this practice, seeing the Islamic requirement that women be pure on their wedding day tantamount to anything from sexism to civil rights abuse? Not Slate's William Saletan! (Yes, that William Saletan.)

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