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Did my children die because I married my cousin?
BBC ^ | 12/14/18

Posted on 12/14/2018 5:23:00 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Ruba and Saqib both carry a gene for an incurable condition, which means their children have a one-in-four chance of dying in early childhood. They've already lost three. Ruba now wants IVF, to select a healthy embryo. Saqib is putting his trust in Allah. And some relatives want them to separate and remarry.

Ruba Bibi had not wanted to marry so young. She had planned to do A-levels and go to university, but before she had finished her GCSEs her parents arranged for her to marry Saqib Mehmood, her cousin, in Pakistan. Born and brought up in Bradford, Ruba had visited Pakistan twice before the wedding - once when she was four and once when she was 12. She couldn't really remember the man she was now engaged to and had never spent time alone with him. He was 27 and worked as a driver. She was 17.

"I was really nervous because I didn't really know him," she remembers...

After three months in Pakistan she was pregnant. She returned to Bradford two months later, shocked to be having a baby so soon. But also happy.

When their son, Hassan, was born in 2007 she excitedly called Saqib to tell him that all was well, although the baby seemed to sleep a lot and had trouble feeding.

"I just thought it was normal," Ruba says...

"When I went in, the doctor told me it was very bad news. She gave me a leaflet and said he has this condition and it's very rare...."

Ruba had no idea that both she and her cousin carried the recessive gene for I-cell, a rare inherited condition that prevents a child growing and developing properly.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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A huge percent of the babies born in the UK with birth defects are born to Pakistani parents.
1 posted on 12/14/2018 5:23:00 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

“Did my children die because I married my cousin?”

No, they died because your gutter religion encourages cousins to marry.


2 posted on 12/14/2018 5:24:51 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Interbreeding. Another one of the many benefits of Islam Inc. /s


3 posted on 12/14/2018 5:26:10 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Why the low IQ in Arab/Muzzie Countries?


4 posted on 12/14/2018 5:26:51 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Should Chelsea be worried? She’s from Arkansas.


5 posted on 12/14/2018 5:31:52 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

ISLAM: The “gift” that keeps on “killing”!


6 posted on 12/14/2018 5:35:45 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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“Did my children die because I married my cousin?”

Not usually a problem when it happens once every three generations, but when the same small village has repeated close-relation marriages over generations, problems occur.
7 posted on 12/14/2018 5:36:56 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Islam does everything wrong.


8 posted on 12/14/2018 5:41:22 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I read that about 20% of marriages in Muslim countries are between first cousins. Has been for ages, and certainly narrows down the gene pool.


9 posted on 12/14/2018 5:42:21 PM PST by odawg
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

50 generations of inbreeding will do that for you.


10 posted on 12/14/2018 5:47:28 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the media are all cats.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

FTA:

“Ruba had no idea that both she and her cousin carried the recessive gene for I-cell, a rare inherited condition that prevents a child growing and developing properly.”

From my long ago high school and college physiology and biology I learned that, if two people with the same recessive gene breed, they’ll produce offspring with the same gene. Two blue eyed blonds will produce blue eyed blond kids, that being a recessive gene. The same applies to those two. That’s why every major religion, except Islam, prohibits first cousin marriage.


11 posted on 12/14/2018 5:47:38 PM PST by libstripper
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

‘Diversity’ brings such wonderful cultural enrichment, doesn’t it?


12 posted on 12/14/2018 5:48:16 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

It is not so much that she married her first cousin. It is that the family trees on both sides have only one branch for as far back as they can reach.

We only line breed cows two deep. After that weird things start to happen.

Don’t mess with your cousins.


13 posted on 12/14/2018 5:53:05 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I had a student in Jr High whose family came from Pakistan. She was bright and pleasant. Her mother, a doctor, was Pakistani. I always worried that she’d be sent back to get married. Don’t know what happened to her. But I think of her when I read stories like this.


14 posted on 12/14/2018 5:55:29 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

They would consider abortion and selective IVF before artificial insemination from a non-carrier?!?!?! smh


15 posted on 12/14/2018 5:56:31 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I know Ann Barnhardt is a little too radioactive for some folks here but she absolutely nails it !!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/04/the_keystone_of_the_islamic_mi.html

These Musloids are disgusting and retarded


16 posted on 12/14/2018 5:57:28 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

H->! and Webb aren’t even kissin’ cousins.


17 posted on 12/14/2018 6:07:24 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Ouderkirk

Totally Correct.

“April 13, 2011”

Needs wider reposting.


18 posted on 12/14/2018 6:08:28 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Ruba and Saqib

No, your child died because your people have married cousins for 1400 years.


19 posted on 12/14/2018 6:12:38 PM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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But if they get a divorce in Arkansas they will still be cousins.


20 posted on 12/14/2018 6:15:40 PM PST by oldasrocks
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