[RIghtwardHo]

Saw a similar story recently of a couple in PA that had been married 30+ years but were brother/sister. How on earth do you deal with that?

[cripplecreek]

After his recent death, the woman was told that she and her husband had been breastfed by the same mother

In islam that makes them siblings. It doesn't mean they were actual siblings.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I feel like I need a shower...

[Words Make the Man]

Islamists are sick. The parents probably thought “family honor” was at stake, for they surely knew who was who and what was what. Their defective thinking, for starters, is passed onto the eight children big time.

[Verginius Rufus]

This reminds me of the song in the 1960s about a young man on a Caribbean island who falls in love with one woman after another but when he talks to his father his father tells him that one is his sister, “but your momma don’t know.” Finally when he has run out of potential mates he goes to his mother and his mother tells him that his father isn’t his father, “but your papa don’t know.”

[WilliamofCarmichael]

First cousin marriages is permitted and common it appears in islamist kingdoms and countries.

Here is www.consang.net and a chart from there; to wit, "Globally, the most common form of consanguineous union contracted is between first cousins"

Global prevalence of consanguinity

(Sources of the images are in the links.)

The text is here

Not surprising that there is nothing there that states explicitly that Islamists blah, blah. There is this sole reference (that I could find) "double first cousin marriages, which have the same coefficient of inbreeding [as uncle-niece unions] (F = 0.125), are recognized within Islam"

It seems to me that if "Globally, the most common form of consanguineous union contracted is between first cousins" and the chart shows the Arab countries with the preponderance of consanguineous marriages then that lends a great deal of authority to other 'Net sources that state it outright: "First cousin marriages have been the tradition in many Muslim families for innumerable generations." I hope the owners of the charts don't mind and are indeed pleased for the additional publicity.

[Twotone]

“Although I was satisfied that my husband died...”

???!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Funny as to how they’re “related” as they’re in reality only bosom buddies. But it’s still forbidden. Sure gives common law a kick in the rear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahram

Sounds like a ploy to cut her out of any inheritance.

[dalereed]

what the hell is a GGC woman?

[lee martell]

The practice is not common in the states, but there is still the curiosity explored in novels. In the 1960s V.C. Andrews wrote a string of paperbacks meant primarily for teens to read. While my English Class was reading things like The Hobbit by Tolkein, or My Darling, My Hamburger, by Paul Zindel, others were reading novels like Flowers in the Attic, which explored this topic.

[RichInOC]

What’s Arabic for “row faster, I hear banjos”?

[kjam22]

That’s called family planning in Arkansas.... :)

[Safetgiver]

Although I was satisfied that my husband died,..Me too, Muzzie Babe.

[Oliviaforever]

Nothing quite as awkward as the Sister-Wife.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Ok but what does this have to do with compilers?