Posted on 07/18/2015 5:26:37 PM PDT by anymouse
Quigley nailed it, didn’t he?
Get real.
Humanity has known about this for more than 2000 years.
BFL
This certainly explains the ease the terrorists have in recruiting suicide bombers.
Bull.
Even the faintest passing acquiesce with the Old Testament warns against incest.
Like John Henry, the Steel Driving Man.
To these animals, Deliverance is a love story.
No you can't. And there is no such place as "remote Appalachia". This is 2015.
That there is funny! I'll use it myself, thanks. I am still chuckling.
You should go get your money back from whomever taught you to read.
I wrote could have. Past tense. As in the 1800’s and early 1900’s before the advent of mechanized transportation.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1483054
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/17/gaza.gender.id/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_in_the_Middle_East
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~kgarbutt/QuantGen/Gen535Papers2/Inbreeding.htm
It explains a lot, but this part is not true.
19 states allow first cousin marriages under any circumstances. (And, no, West Virginia is not one of them). 25 prohibit it, though unlikely that they can enforce those laws given the recent supreme court redefinition of marriage. The remaining six permit it under certain circumstances, five of which are fairly logical:
The problem is less an occasional first cousin marriage, which was not at all uncommon in early America, than generation after generation of the same.
That was one of the side benefits of conquest - sex slaves = new blood.
It is probably also what kept many royal families on top - foreign brides decreasing the inbreeding depression in the clan.
This isn't because the people were weird or anything of the sort, simply because they didn't get around much and the pool of available marriage partners were limited.
If you think of a random first cousin marriage like a pair of dice, your chances of rolling snake eyes in one in 36. However, the offspring produced will include die with maybe two ones on it. Roll those together and the chances go up from 1 in 36 to 1 in 9. They produce die with three ones. Roll two of those together and your chances of a genetic defect go from 1 in 9 to 1 in 4. Those are the type of increasing odds you play with repeating first cousin marriages generation after generation. Not exactly the same odds, of course, but the same concept.
My wife and I discovered we are also distant cousins through different children of a Rev. John Crandall (1618-1676), a contemporary of Roger Williams, founder of the Colony of Rhode Island. Almost any couple in America who has ancestors who were here or arrived before 1670 (about the time the United Kingdom starting sending undesirables to America in large numbers) will have a similar, if not even closer, cousin relationship whether they can document it or not.
Really? I thought it was the Nazis only marrying their race that was the Nazi thing to do, not denouncing it. But because it is a muslim doing it, all of a sudden it is Ok to be Nazi like to breeding?
Dowry practices have a lot to do with it. You have to pay for a bride unless she’s taken in conquest.
Marry a paternal first cousin, and the dowry is grandpa folding his money over and putting it back in his pocket.
Two cousins marrying each other’s sisters means no one has to pay dowry.
And if she marries her paternal cousin, she has a lot of benefits under Shariah law:
* she doesn’t have to veil in front of her father in law or brothers in law
* the father in law is an uncle and thus can escort her and the kids to events when the husband is gone or even refuses
* she probably lives in the same compound with her own parents and siblings and thus some protection because her kin are around her
* if you marry your paternal cousin, there’s a fair chance your brother is still around to offer protection, act as an escort and act as your representative
* if she is divorced, she simply moves back into her parents’ rooms but isn’t sent miles away from the kids, and if the father dies and the kids go to his brothers to raise, they are likely still in the same village
I’ve seen a number of double marriages in the genealogy. There’s the old joke about the guy saying he likes a girl and the brother asking if she has a sister.
If your brother is going off to court a girl, of course you take the other brothers to meet the other sisters.
Or, if the guy likes the girl, introducing his sister to her brother.
But that’s not incest, just really close family ties.
Exactly. We aren’t talking about a one time thing. We are talking about the accumulation of thousands of generations.
Does that include Obama?
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Cousin_Marriage_in_Islam
http://www.dawn.com/news/707896/young-arabs-question-centuries-old-tradition-of-cousin-marriages
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