Posted on 08/17/2013 5:08:58 AM PDT by grundle
Inbreeding among British Muslims is threatening the health of their children, a leading geneticist warned yesterday.
Professor Steve Jones, from University College London, said the common practice in Islamic communities for cousins to marry each other increased the risk of birth defects.
‘There may be some evidence that cousins marrying one another can be harmful,’ he told an audience at the Hay Festival.
‘We should be concerned about that as there can be a lot of hidden genetic damage. Children are much more likely to get two copies of a damaged gene.
‘Bradford is very inbred. There is a huge amount of cousins marrying each other there.’
Studies have shown that 55 per cent of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins – and in Bradford, this rises to 75 per cent.
Other research has found that children of first cousins are ten times more likely to have recessive genetic disorders and face deafness, blindness and infant mortality.
But Prof Jones’s comments provoked anger among some Muslim groups yesterday.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, which promotes the image of Muslims in Britain, said: ‘I know many Muslims who have married their cousins and none of them have had a problem with their children.
‘Obviously, we don’t want any children to be born disabled who don’t need to be born disabled, so I would advise genetic screening before first cousins marry.
'But I find Steve Jones’s comments unworthy of a professor. Using language like “inbreeding” to describe cousins marrying is completely inappropriate and further demonises Muslims.’
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That might explain a lot of things.
Anyone into dairy farming knows, “you get a bull from a different herd”.
One fights the jihad and the other provides logistic and ideological support?
Well that's something that you don't see everyday.
My mother’s sister married one brother
Their cousin married another brother
Pretty common in farm country of western NJ.......
Apparently it strengthens the tendency of muzzlems to remain part of a psychotic, violent, intolerant, hateful cult. That's pretty noteable damage.;-)
It says “10 times more likely than ...” Is that a risk you or your family would want to take? I don’t want to get in an argument with you because you know so much about it however, they are basically breeding more damaged children than other population groups and in socialist UK, that is a societal cost everyone pays.
“My mother’s sister married one brother
Their cousin married another brother”
The scenario you described would not likely be a problem, assuming the brothers were from a different family.
Muslim inbreeding = why they are all nuts.
“Royals did it, wealthy families here did it to keep money and/or land from being broken up outside the family. It wasn’t always a sign of ignorance, it was done for practical reasons.”
Sometimes there were problems. That Habsburg lower jaw, for example. Then there was Charles the Bewitched.
Plenty of articles online about Muslim inbreeding. Keeping the bride-price in the clan is one motivation.
Never said there wasn’t a potential price to pay with some progeny, just that it’s been done and intentionally, not out of ignorance, and not always with disastrous result. Generation upon generation of it done out of ignorance with no consideration does lead to widespread problems though, as does generation after generation of it done due to some sort of closed environment, whether that’s lengthy isolation or clannishness.
let the Muslims breed themselves into oblivion.
Hip dysplasia should not be the worse think this breed of dogs should suffer.....
born gay = birth defect
“I hear some of the hospitals have quite horrendous birth defects. I doubt the muslims would have any problem killing a baby that was malformed.”
As long as the genetic defective lives, the English will pay welfare payments to support it.
Stupid and inbred as Muslims are, they are smart enough to keep a welfare check recipient alive so they can get the money.
The English, who have allowed Muslims to settle in England and thus bringing both financial and cultural disaster to England, are the truly stupid population in this issue.
No question about it.
In Hunterdon County my mom’s aunt married a man with the same last name... he wasn’t directly related, however. I also dated a girl that was living near where my family had roots in Hunterdon... and found out we were like sixth cousins related by marriage.
Link to article on the miserable marriage customs in Afganistan including the common practice of marrying first cousins...http://www.scribd.com/doc/50791329/Marriage-in-Afghanistan
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