The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, has come out with a fatwa permitting women to hide premarital sexual relations from their husbands, either with surgery to reconstruct their hymens or by just not admitting their sexual past. While we in the West have progressed far enough that it makes sense to just make fun of anybody who cares enough about hymens enough to think hymen replacement surgery is a good idea, it's probably a good thing to make available in a society where the murder of women who have premarital sex is a real possibility.
Gomaa has been pretty good on women's rights, having previously declared that women may become heads of state in modern Muslim nations. His fatwa output hasn't been perfect -- a while back he was opposing the display of statues. But if Egypt moves towards having less statues but more equality for women, you won't see me complaining.
