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British health service says marrying your first cousin has many benefits and "economic advantages"
Not The Bee ^ | September 29, 2025 | Joel Abbott

Posted on 09/29/2025 5:50:50 AM PDT by Red Badger

Did you think the headline was a joke?

The UK's National Health Service is the country's government-run (socialistic) healthcare system.

Last week, NHS England's "Genomics Education Programme" seriously published guidance that said incest is okay, even if such inbreeding comes with double the risk of genetic defects (this is basic science, folks!).

Even dumber (somehow) is the fact that the NHS uses King Henry VIII as an example of cousin marriage.

Are the people in charge of the UK's healthcare system actually this dumb? (Intelligence is affected by inbreeding too!)

Divorcing your wife and marrying her cousin is not consanguineous marriage under any sense of the word. The word "consanguineous" literally means "of the same blood" in Latin. It's talking about a man marrying his own cousin.

Third graders should be smart enough to figure that out (may God have mercy on England).

Fortunately, the NHS was forced to apologize (for the moment) after swift public backlash.

Dr Patrick Nash, an expert on religious law and director of the Pharos Foundation social science research group in Oxford, called the guidance 'truly dismaying'.

'Cousin marriage is incest, plain and simple, and needs to be banned with the utmost urgency - there is no "balance" to be struck between this cultural lifestyle choice and the severe public health implications it incurs.

'This official article is deeply misleading and should be retracted with an apology so that the public is not misled by omission and half-truths.'

Critics say the NHS is trying to appease the large number of Muslim migrants who have flooded the UK in recent years. 1.6 million Pakistanis lived in Great Britain as of 2021, or 2.2% of the population. Pakistanis have an insanely high rate of incest - a whopping 61% of all marriages are consanguineous. This has followed Pakistanis to the UK - 55% of all married Pakistanis in Great Britain are wed to their cousins.

Across the Muslim world, 25%-50% of all marriages are between blood relatives, leading to serious genetic issues (which have serious implications for the burden on a nation's healthcare system). Western Europe and the U.S., by comparison, are at less than 1%.

Among Indians (now 2.9% of the UK's population), consanguineous marriage is lower (8%), but exceeds 25% among dedicated Hindu communities, particularly those from southern India.

The NHS responded to the criticism of its guidelines by claiming they are not the British government's official position (yet). The NHS says it just wanted to have a dialogue about incest as part of an important democratic discussion.

A spokesman for NHS England said: 'The article published on the website of the Genomics Education Programme is a summary of existing scientific research and the public policy debate. It is not expressing an NHS view.'

A few comments:

Since the UK seems to have forgotten both science and the biblical foundation of its entire legal system, I'll conclude with a Bible verse to kindly help the British authorities remember that the God who created reproduction and DNA gave helpful instructions about incest 3,500 years ago:

'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.' - Leviticus 18:6


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: islam; islamic; muslim; muslims

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To: Uncle Miltie

Well, got to follow the science, so we have been told. Is it settled though?


21 posted on 09/29/2025 6:06:17 AM PDT by Kudsman (Emulate Charlie, not the left.)
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To: Red Badger

Pandering to the muslims.


22 posted on 09/29/2025 6:06:28 AM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: Red Badger

It’s for the muslims


23 posted on 09/29/2025 6:07:18 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Red Badger

So now we know why Muslims are so bloodthirsty and violent... They all descend from Allah.


24 posted on 09/29/2025 6:07:34 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

So now we know why Muslims are so bloodthirsty and violent... They all descend from Allah.


25 posted on 09/29/2025 6:07:38 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Albert Einstein’s second wife was his first cousin on maternal side(mothers were sisters) and 2nd cousins on fathers’ sides (fathers were first cousins). No children from that marriage.


26 posted on 09/29/2025 6:08:06 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: Verginius Rufus

Albert Einstein’s second wife was his first cousin on maternal side(mothers were sisters) and 2nd cousins on fathers’ sides (fathers were first cousins). No children from that marriage.


27 posted on 09/29/2025 6:08:07 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: Red Badger

28 posted on 09/29/2025 6:08:49 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Kudsman

Being from New York is much worse than being from Appalachia


29 posted on 09/29/2025 6:10:04 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Kudsman

Being from New York is much worse than being from Appalachia


30 posted on 09/29/2025 6:10:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Red Badger

My grandparents were first cousins. People who know me might say that explains s a lot.😄


31 posted on 09/29/2025 6:19:39 AM PDT by Daveinyork ( )
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To: bert

I will take your word for it. Heck, the cousins are probably cute too.


32 posted on 09/29/2025 6:19:39 AM PDT by Kudsman (Emulate Charlie, not the left.)
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To: LibertyOh

My paternal grandparents were third cousins, once removed, and more distantly related on other lines—they were from the same small village where the majority of marriages were between two people from the village (the rest from other villages within 15 miles). When you get to second or third cousins the percentage of shared DNA is much less. I think second cousin marriages were common historically among European Jews (but I don’t know what percentage of all marriages they were).


33 posted on 09/29/2025 6:21:04 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: dforest

“Next could be marrying 7 yr old kids will be a good idea.”

mohammed, the perfect man, married Aisha at 6.

And raped her at 9.


34 posted on 09/29/2025 6:23:22 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Right_In_Virginia’s 84% Plausibly Anti-Semitic posts put him at #1! Any challengers?)
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To: dforest

“Next could be marrying 7 yr old kids will be a good idea.”

mohammed, the perfect man, married Aisha at 6.

And raped her at 9.


35 posted on 09/29/2025 6:23:27 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Right_In_Virginia’s 84% Plausibly Anti-Semitic posts put him at #1! Any challengers?)
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To: Kudsman

I don’t know.

Let’s have a vote.


36 posted on 09/29/2025 6:25:28 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Right_In_Virginia’s 84% Plausibly Anti-Semitic posts put him at #1! Any challengers?)
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To: Red Badger

Look what inbreeding has done for the muzzie community...


37 posted on 09/29/2025 6:26:55 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: dforest
--- "They are accepting their muzzard overlord thinking."

This! ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑

38 posted on 09/29/2025 6:27:18 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Red Badger

They actually said this.


39 posted on 09/29/2025 6:30:52 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Red Badger

I believe it was the British that coined the term “Kissing Cousins”....LOL


40 posted on 09/29/2025 6:33:15 AM PDT by srmanuel
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