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
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“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I had clients who were half siblings. They couldn’t understand why their children were low IQ, had physical disabilities and a couple died. Oh, but they loooved each other, sigh.
I read a lot of novels from the 1800’s. Seems like marrying your first cousin was a thing. Of course, they’re novels, and I doubt if science was a part of their research.
Odds are you'll get away with it if your temporally extended family doesn't try it too often. Otherwise ... you end up like European "Royalty" ...
Inbreeding is indeed a Muslim phenomenon. (Caution: black is no data. Darker shades of blue are highest prevalence.)
OPENS THE DOOR TO FURTHER MUSLIM ACCEPTED ACTIVITY, IMO
Trust the experts.
Gotta keep the muzzies and Africans feeling like they are back in their s holes.
“ The NHS says it just wanted to have a dialogue about incest as part of an important democratic discussion.”
Disingenuous, pandering, and in true liberal orthodoxy attempts to erase yet another binary good vs. bad comparison of cultures. No, it’s not good to marry your relative. No, your cultural norm DOESN’T MATTER, and no, the rest of the civilized and enlightened world DOES NOT have to accept your way of life.
Each day it seems the UK is racing towards a total collapse of society, human rights, sovereignty, and sanity. Their so-called King is failing his people, and the ripple effect will be on free trade, mutual defense agreements, etc.
They need a Thatcher or a Trump to wake everyone from their socialist stupor quickly.
Trying to placate Muslims from Pakistan.
Such marriages favored by Islam. Islam owns Britain.
There is a list in the bible that tells who one should not marry. I don’t think that it lists first cousins.
You’re not unique. There’s a lot of shock and horror on the topic in this thread. But go back 4, 5, 6, 7, 8+ generations, and I can pretty much guarantee that *everyone* on this thread has cousin-marriage in the woodpile. People were engaged in farming and were stuck living in rural areas in small villages, and options for marital partners were limited.
With that said, we’re living in a different world with easy mobility and access to a huge pool of potential partners. As such, there’s really no excuse for sticking in the shallow end of the gene pool.
Considering the history of the “British crown”, of COURSE they’d say marrying your first cousin is okay.
A nation of helpless retards is easier to control....
How soon before the home office make the goat announcement? "Inshallah"
Aloha Snack Bar....
Soon to placate the Muzzies the UK will legalize child marriage too.
I bet it was a Paki doctor who said it.
Or a West Virginian.................
Yes
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