The message this phenomenon sends is that tying any practice, however damaging, to the fear of offending Islamic sensibilities makes it virtually untouchable. That is what happens when there emerges within a society a privileged class that is placed beyond criticism out of fear or a misguided effort to win "hearts and minds."
This is also exactly what has happened with Islamic supremacism and jihadist aspirations within Britain's Muslim community. "It's time to confront this taboo: First cousin marriages in Muslim communities are putting hundreds of children at risk," by Sue Reid for the Daily Mail, June 3 (thanks to Zulu):
The man wept as he told how his beautiful, dark-eyed child died in a hospital cot with medical tubes snaking from his frail body as nurses fought unsuccessfully to save him. Sick with pneumonia, the two-year-old gave up the battle for life.
A rare tragedy, you might think, in modern Britain, with all the advances of medical science.
But in the terraced streets of Bradford, Yorkshire, a child’s death is anything but rare. At the boy’s inquest, coroner Mark Hinchliffe said Hamza Rehman had died because his Pakistan-born parents (shopkeeper Abdul and housewife Rozina) are first cousins. [...]
A heartbroken Mr Rehman told the inquest that he and his wife were unsure whether to have any more children. The coroner expressed deep sympathy before saying that Hamza’s death should serve as a warning to others.
He said: ‘This highlights a cultural and religious issue relating to first-cousin marriages and the potential risk to children that some medical experts say can result from such unions.’
The coroner chose his words carefully, since he was addressing one of the most controversial — and taboo — subjects in multi-cultural Britain: marriage between cousins in the Muslim communities which has left hundreds, if not thousands, of children damaged or dead.
This week, leading geneticist Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, warned that ‘inbreeding’ in Islamic communities was threatening the health of generations of children. [...]
He said: ‘We should be concerned as there can be a lot of hidden genetic damage and children are much more likely to get two copies of a damaged gene.’
He highlighted Bradford as a city that was ‘very inbred’. [...]
Are the MP’s words, and those of Professor Jones, inflammatory or simply a truth that needs to be aired?
Is what doctors are saying, and is what we are saying inflammatory? A Muslim writing for the Daily Mail, Saira Khan, says this: "Terrified of being branded Islamophobic, most people simply choose to ignore these issues and are more worried about causing offence than the plight of these poor, blameless children. But in keeping quiet out of a misplaced sense of political correctness, we are failing our own citizens."
Is Saira Khan an Islamophobe?
Sadly, the facts speak for themselves. British Pakistanis, half of whom marry a first cousin (a figure that is universally agreed), are 13 times more likely to produce children with genetic disorders than the general population, according to Government-sponsored research.
One in ten children from these cousin marriages either dies in infancy or develops a serious life-threatening disability.
While British Pakistanis account for three per cent of the births in this country, they are responsible for 33 per cent of the 15,000 to 20,000 children born each year with genetic defects. [...]
The problem is most serious in Bradford. A recent survey of 1,100 pregnant women in the city showed that 70 per cent have husbands who are first cousins — a higher percentage than the average of 50 per cent among Pakistanis across the whole of Britain. [...]
Many NHS doctors, while admitting privately there is a crisis, refuse to speak out for fear of being branded ‘racist’.
However, on Muslim websites the issue is discussed more freely. An Asian health worker wrote recently: ‘I went to two special schools in my city. One was for children with physical disabilities; the other with kids who had learning difficulties. [...]
'Of the six 16-year-olds at the second school, five were Pakistani and one was a Tamil. All had blood-related ancestry. I rest my case: cousin marriages don’t work.’
So why are cousin marriages so popular?
As one British-Pakistani put it bluntly on a similar website: ‘A main reason why this corrupt practice is still followed in Britain is because the family wants to keep their property, land, jewellery and money in the family.
‘The lack of education in families, along with a Pakistani village culture, encourages these incestuous marriages. The children are born disabled and it must cost the NHS millions of pounds to treat them. Maybe if the NHS refused to treat the children the families would have second thoughts.’
They were harsh words. But this week I was told by charity workers, doctors and counsellors working with families in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the Midlands that many parents also believe it is an ‘act of God’ or the ‘will of Allah’ that their children are born disabled.
According to Zed Ali, manager of a Lancashire charity, Project BME (Black Minority Ethnics), some parents think that if their children die, they will become angels in heaven.
‘It is hard to counter these religious views without offending the Pakistani community,’ she says.
One young mother, calling herself by the Pakistani name of Shenzah, wrote recently: ‘I have a huge difficulty. I am married to a first cousin. My parents and my husband’s parents were also married to their first cousins.
‘Now I have one daughter with lots of defects and the doctor is sure it is due to these marriages.
‘I was against marrying a first cousin because I believed it would cause genetic problems, but my family forced me. According to them, what the doctors say is all nonsense.
But, in what amounts to a lazy excuse to keep the status quo, to forbid it would be to commit shirk, appropriating Allah's sole right to permit and forbid:
‘I cannot understand why cousin marriages are not forbidden in Islam. The Koran doesn’t forbid it and this encourages people around me to disbelieve what the doctors say.'...
One expects this article will bring charges of "slander." Not entirely in the Western sense, but conflated with that of the Islamic tradition:
"Slander (ghiba) means to mention anything concerning a person that he would dislike, whether about his body, religion, everyday life, self, disposition, property, son, father, wife, servant, turban, garment, gait, movements, smiling, dissoluteness, frowning, cheerfulness, or anything else connected with him" (Umdat al-Salik, r2.2)."
Here in Kentucky we have a whole set of Appalachia jokes, as in, "You night be from Appalachia if you met your wife at a family reunion."
Of course, Appalachians do not riot and murder people when doctors or other reasonable people advise them on the serious genetic dangers of marrying one's first cousin, nor does the press accuse reasonable people of being Appalachiaphobes for suggesting that barefoot hillbillies in the hollers of the eastern part of the state abandon inbreeding and incest in the interest of their own children's futures, public health and economic development, and integrating into society so as to both contribute to it, and thereby be entitled to its benefits and protection.
Why didn't the doctors mention that studies have shown that intelligence quotients drop along with genetic disorders?
Maybe it's Allah's will that we stop paying for this nonsense and just outlaw cousin marriages.
"I was against marrying a first cousin because I believed it would cause genetic problems, but my family forced me. According to them, what the doctors say is all nonsense."
I have a book in Danish. Each chapter a short memoir by a woman, immigrated or born a Muslim here, as told to the editors.
It is all arranged marriages, forced marriages, 1st cousin marriages, hymen intact, hymen ruptured, everything revolving around the hymen, rapes that must be hidden, rapes on the wedding night, blood, ignorance, silence, fear, fear of sex, fear of disabled children, domination, subjugation, superstition.
But the sentence I remember clearest is the one told by the older generation women to the young girl who didn't much like to be married off to her cousin: "You must not believe what the Danes tell you!".
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2953.htm
Look at this!
Egyptian Cleric says the Muslims will call people to Islam, then demand Jizya and then kill all non-Muslims! How could this happen in the CLEARLY DEMOCRATIC state of Egypt!?
This is the video
#2953 - Egyptian Cleric Mazen Al-Sarsawi: We Ask a Person Nicely to Convert, But If He Refuses and Does Not Pay the Jizya Tax, We Fight Him
Nour Al-Khaleejiyah TV (Egypt) - January 3, 2011 - 02:14
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2953.htm
Surveys in Norway and Denmark have shown the risk of birth defects and hereditary deseases to be increased in communities consisting of immigrant Muslim with a tradition of first cousin marriages. The numbers can be quite obvious:
Pakistanis in Oslo, 3 out of 10 married to a first cousin: 11 times higher risk of Parkinson and Alzheimer.
Turkish, Somali and Pakistani mothers in Denmark: twice the risk of stillbirth.
In Denmark, the 0-20 age group among immigrants has 18.5% more mentally and/or physically disabled than the rest of the population.
The whiners have already begun to complain about "fascist eugenics".
Dr. Udo Ulfkotte a famous German Islam critic (ex-Muslim)
also mentioned the dangerous incest in Islam through their marriage of cousins
http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/deutschland/udo-ulfkotte/generation-doof-tabu-thema-importierte-inzucht.html
Generation doof: Tabu-Thema importierte Inzucht
(Generation dumb: taboo subject imported inbreeding, incest)
I've posted this link before, but it is relevant to the present story so bears posting again:
One can see the magnitude of the problem of cousin marriages in the Arab/Islamic world by looking at a consanguinity map: http://www.consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalenc... . Places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have an incidence rate of cousin marriage that exceeds 50%. Immigrants from these countries bring the practice with them to the West.
One wonders if genetic disorders spawned by inbreeding might also include psychological disorders.
Yet another form of Jizya extorting billions from the British tax payer. The amount of Invalid Care Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Carer's Allowance being gobbled up by their inbreeding is bleeding the country white.
Disability is a big earner in this country and they know it. No amount of discouraging it(inbreeding)will stop them, in fact if they know it pisses us off it serves to encourage them.
Everywhere in my town which is 60% Bangladeshi / Pakistani are 'Muslim welfare' 'Islamic welfare' 'Bangladeshi'and 'Pakistani welfare' offices. The whole town is geared towards welfare for these parasites.
This is retarded! (No pun intended)
The link to the consanguinity map got chopped off. Here is the full link http://www.consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalence .
The Qur'an causes big trouble not only for what it says but even for what it doesn't say! And it's even dangerous to criticized the trouble?
It seems only fitting that, recently in the name of free speech, literally
40 000 copies of the Qur'an have been burned :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeAr01hzG30
They're digital copies but still real copies. Interesting, it's now technically possible to burn billions of Qur'ans in short order. What do the Islamic scholars think of Allah permitting that? Clearly this Allah must be just a big lie.
Couldn't care less. The Muslims are already taking over due to over-breeding Demographic Jihad:
“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
– Houari (Mohamed) Boumedienne, President of Algeria, 1965 – 1978, in a 1974 speech at the UN
Uh, when the so called profit (mispelled on purpose) of Izlam is hooking up with like a 9 year old way back in the day - then of course marrying ur cousin is ok...
...and we wonder why many of these people are nuts.
i lived 4 years in the U.K. back when the wall in Germany came down and i have some great friends there; but man is that country falling headlong down a slippery slope...WOW.
Maranatha!
Digital Daily: British Muslim Inbreeding Causing Genetic Disorders
A 2008 piece.
When reading this article, I accidentally shouted 'idiots!' and my ten years old heard it. He asked wuts up? I told him that I am reading MoSlums marry their first cousins. His immediate response was, they could not produce normal children!
I am shocked. A ten years old regular kid could tell what Mo missed in his so called revelations.
update -
When reading this article, I accidentally shouted 'idiots!' and my ten years old heard it. He asked wuts up? I told him that I am reading MoSlums marry their first cousins. His immediate response was, they could not produce normal children!
I am shocked. A ten years old regular kid could figure what Mo missed in his so called entire revelations. This is a very important issue for the human race. I think the UN should look into it under the Human Rights Charter. Pakies are apparently leading the human rights issues in the UN. Wut the f?
Doctors who refuse to warn that children born to first cousins are at increased risk for terrible, debilitating birth defects and diseases are a disgrace to their profession. They are contributing to this problem out of fear of being called a name. Is that what they would tell some child dying of a disease it inherited because its parents were first cousins -- that it was worse to be called a name than to speak up and perhaps save that child's life or at least spare it such suffering?
These people disgust me.
Vicious downward spiral. Islam perpetuates idiocy, and idiocy perpetuates Islam.
I wonder how many of the numerous British suicide bombers and wannabe bombers are the demented products of successive generations of cousin marriage?
The journalist asks: "Are the MP’s words, and those of Professor Jones, inflammatory or simply a truth that needs to be aired?"
Time and again journos show their bias and in the case of the western mind addressing Islam it is quite common. The western mind sees issues as a case of either/or. But the tribal mind of the Middle East sees things in terms of both/and. So Islam is peacful (to Muslims) and violent (to kaffirs), both are true.
In the context of the journalist's question the duality he cannot see is that the truth about Islam inflames Muslims.
Supressing the former is seen to be the means of supressing the latter, a conclusion to which the western politically correct (but logically faulty) mind assents.
Inbreeding and rapid breding weaken the whole...The bigger Islam gets, the sicker and weaker it gets...
My Dinka friend told me some time ago that Dinkas are careful about not marrying close blood relations; they have known forever that it is a bad idea.
These are the people who the northern Muslims think are "uncivilised", requiring to be brought under the fold of Islam.
Horrors! Did he mean millions of deformed and mentally deficient sons will conquer the Northern Hemisphere by means of the wombs of Muslims' cousins?
Is this what we are allowing to happen!? I am sure it was not what he was imagining.
Yet we are still commanded to "celebrate diversity"...and we have "Refugee Week" coming up soon...what joy!
Any child found to have a genetic defect because of cousin marriage should result in the parents paying jizya tax to cover the health care costs.
Allah is merciful, kind.
But wont pay the health care.
I hate to play the devil's advocate here. Leviticus 18 lists all forbidden marriages. First cousin marriages is not listed. There is also some unproven speculation that Joseph and Mary were first cousins.
The point here is the mindset. As I noted above, taking the angle that the Qur'an doesn't forbid the practice is in part a lazy excuse in those communities to maintain the status quo, though it also uses the fear of being accused of "shirk" against Muslims who criticize it.
Add to that the fatalism expressed above and attempts to rationalize these repeated tragedies as a good thing -- i.e., the children become angels -- and you have a seriously toxic mindset. One could call it a militant complacency.
And this toxic mindset lives in a symbiotic relationship with another -- the culture of silence driven by the fear of being branded "racist" for pointing out an obvious problem.
Why are we getting all huffed up about mo-slum first cousins getting married and producing idiots and imbeciles and dead babies.... This is one way of reducing their population... Don you guys see it? Let them continue their practice and sooner than later there won't be very many of them. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!
The problem in the UK is that the UK infidel taxpayers are footing the medical bills for all these damaged kids.
If these Muslim children of first cousin marriages were born back in dar al Islam, well...most of them would have died shortly after birth.
I remember conversing, once, with a woman who had done some research into genetic disorders...in a hospital in Saudi Arabia. Part of the research involved doing family trees of those who manifested the disorders.
Family trees that looked like ladders, not like the ever-branching trees you get if you do genealogy in the West.
Cousins marrying cousins and then the cousins in the next generation down, also marrying each other, and then the same thing repeated in the next generation, and on, and on, and on...
Saudi Arabia is a petri dish of inbreeding, exhibiting an extraordinary amount and variety of every imaginable genetic disorder.
If dar al Islam were strictly cordoned off from the rest of the world, and prevented from importing fresh genetic material (which it has traditionally done by slave-raiding the neighbours, or by kidnapping the wives and daughters of dhimmi populations), I don't know how long it would manage to survive.
Muslim Inbreeding http://bit.ly/goVaWd
"Massive inbreeding within the Muslim culture during the last 1.400 years may have done catastrophic damage to their gene pool. The consequences of intermarriage between first cousins often have serious impact on the offspring’s intelligence, sanity, health and on their surroundings
The most famous example of inbreeding is in ancient Egypt, where several Pharaonic dynasties collapsed after a couple of hundred years. In order to keep wealth and power within the family, the Pharaohs often married their own sister or half-sister and after a handful of generations the offspring were mentally and physically unfit to rule..."
A Pakistani man in the UK abandoned his wife and three defective children to marry someone else leaving the care of his family to the state. This moron clearly believes he has a right to breed and to healthy children while the British tax payer picks up the bill for maintaining his ex-family forevermore.
The deadly disease Tuberculosis, once cleared totally from Britain, is back and raging through immigrant populations. Clinicians say this strain of TB is particularly difficult to treat and arrived here with infected immigrants from the third world. Just another hidden benefit of the multicultural experiment.
First cousin marriage is and has been commonplace in the UK for centuries. Mum is British, and I have two first cousins who married and divorced.
Tommo : The deadly disease Tuberculosis, once cleared totally from Britain, is back and raging through immigrant populations.
So either their stupidity or their general disdain for hygienic living will kill moslems off?
OK, I can live with that.
At this stage I'd prefer to declare them a hostile organism and hunt them to extinction but then I'm a bit of a moderate.
/sarc
http://www.consang.net/index.php/Global_prevalence .
Please go to this site. It is our future, if we do not stop it now.
I'm assuming you Mum's side of the family is from Norfolk then, aspacia?
Seriously though, it's not all that commonplace. You make it sound like we're all wonky-toothed big-eared oddballs... oh wait... forget I said that.
Care to give me a reference about the source of your info? I don't believe that for one minute your statements about UK being a common place for inbreeding. Don't bother me with the Royal family stuff which is well documented.
Barook, in THEIR countries, all the families have to do is feed them (at their own expense) and maybe drop them off in the morning at the souk to beg.
In OUR countries, we keep them alive, educate them as far as it can go, then give them the "right" to have children of their own.
And we encourage inbreeding because of immigration itself and the debts and favours owed within their families which make them obliged to marry their cousins, whether they like it or not.
A very good documentary from Channel 4 Dispatches - When Cousins Marry. It can be found on Youtube as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-OA6tYJoF4
Check it out!
Saria Shaw wrote a wonderful book about her search for her Afgan roots. It woke her up. You should read it.
I agree with many of you who think that all of Europe should outlaw 1st cousin marriages and do a compaign to enlighten muslim to the ill effects of what they have been doing for centuries.
They're doing *that* already.
Only usually afterward - especially if she gets pregnant - the poor girls get disposed of in an 'honor' murder.
I remember a while ago a report - from Jerusalem Post, I think it was. A 'Palestinian' Arab Muslim girl was raped - and impregnated - by her two *brothers*.
Rather than throw the evil little creeps out of the house, Muslim mama removed the 'shame' by murdering her *daughter*. Of course, because this all happened in an Arab Muslim village within Israel, those pesky Jooz and their police took an interest in the matter, and mama was hauled up on a charge of murder. Had the thing happened in dar al Islam, doubtless the girl would have ended up in a shallow grave in the backyard, or down in the wadi, and nothing more would have been heard of it.
I think Wafa Sultan in 'A God Who Hates' says that while practising as a doctor in Syria - this was before she apostasised from Islam - she encountered quite a few women and girls who had been incestuously abused: by fathers, uncles and brothers.
Sadly, the facts speak for themselves. British Pakistanis, half of whom marry a first cousin (a figure that is universally agreed), are 13 times more likely to produce children with genetic disorders than the general population, according to Government-sponsored research.
One in ten children from these cousin marriages either dies in infancy or develops a serious life-threatening disability.
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This is turning civilized Britain into a third-world country—all in the name of Islam...