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Experts: Inbreeding main cause of Arab infant mortality
Jerusalem Post ^ | Aug. 16, 2005 | Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

Posted on 08/16/2005 2:52:25 PM PDT by Alouette

After lowering infant mortality rates among Arabs in western Galilee through the reduction of neonatal infections, early detection and encouraging abortions of fetuses with major and lethal congenital defects, public health experts are now focusing on the last main cause of babies' deaths in this population: inbreeding.

Dr. Avshalom Strulov of the University of Haifa's Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies and of the Health Ministry's Northern District health office reports in the August issue of the Israel Medical Association Journal about efforts to discourage Arab first cousins and other close relatives from marrying. Such consanguineous marriages, he writes, "are not part of the Islamic religion" and are indeed harmful since they lead to the conception of fetuses with serious inherited diseases.

The district health office has initiated a project in areas with large Arab populations that includes study days for health personnel, initiation of reports against inbreeding in the Arabic-language mass media, and encouragement of Muslim religious leaders to declare in mosques that this practice is likely to produce defective children.

Most of the activity, however, recruits elementary and high-school teachers in the Arab sector who speak to pupils about the dangers of marrying close relatives. "The effect on the reduction of the rates of consanguineous marriages should be observable within years, and the effect on infant mortality within generations," Strulov predicts.

The three-pronged effort would further reduce the gap in infant mortality rates between the Jewish and Arab populations in Israel, he said. In 2002, the annual infant mortality rate was 4.0 per 1,000 live births among Jews and 9.0 among Arabs; in the Northern District, it was 5.4 among Jews and 7.8 among Arabs.

Strulov was appointed by the ministry nearly two decades ago as coordinator of a multi-professional and multi-organizational committee that aimed at reducing the gap in infant mortality between the two sectors as much as possible.

In the early Eighties, the rate among Arabs was 22.6 per 1,000 live births and half that among Jews.

The main causes of deaths of Arab babies in summer were acute gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, and in winter, upper respiratory tract infections and hypothermia (low body temperature due to inadequate heating).

Information campaigns about preventing and treating both of these conditions, as well as better means for refrigeration and hygiene, brought these deaths almost down to zero.

Ultrasound facilities, doctors and subsidies by Clalit Health Services significantly increased the early detection of severe congenital defects in fetuses, most of whose mothers decided on an abortion.

The remaining major problem was consanguinity, said Strulov, and while progress on this took many years, movement was in the right direction.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabs; arabworld; cousinmarriage; inbred; nosurprise; retarded
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
I'm a bit puzzled by this as well. I was given to understand that there were NO circumstances where a møøslimb woman could get an abortion, even if continuing the pregnancy would surely result in the death of both the woman and child.
81 posted on 08/16/2005 4:38:37 PM PDT by null and void (Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)
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To: Alouette

Here's the weiners in tin-foil thread ... enjoy!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1464567/posts


I thought EVERYONE had seen this! It's the first time in a long time that one story seems to be talked about on every thread I click on ...


82 posted on 08/16/2005 4:42:37 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: Alouette
Also explains their plainly hopelessly low IQ, too.
Muslim Nobel Prize WInners:.

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Q.E.D.

If a muslim any won a scientific award working in a non-muslim country, it doesn't count!

83 posted on 08/16/2005 4:45:19 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: Moral Hazard
Maybe, though there's an awful lot of inbreeding in the bible too.

That, however, does not cover the last 1500 years.

84 posted on 08/16/2005 4:46:35 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: Righty_McRight

"Were their other kids between Joseph and Mary?"

Depends if you ask a Protestant or Roman catholic.

Protestants point to verses that indicate other children.

Roman catholics state that those verses are not clear and state that Mary was ever-virginal.


85 posted on 08/16/2005 4:46:47 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: hang 'em
I read somewhere that studies show that the average ME Arab has an IQ of 84 and is clinically insane.

I would love to see the references for that!

86 posted on 08/16/2005 4:48:02 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: Publius6961

Longer than 1500 --- whenever Leviticus came out -- what 2000BC? 1500 BC I have no idea.

Anyway, longer than 2004 years, plus a lot more.


87 posted on 08/16/2005 4:49:34 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: Montfort

Kerry is a descendant of the same line that gave us the Shahs of Iran.


88 posted on 08/16/2005 4:50:47 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: Alouette

Answers a lot of questions about Arab behavior.....


89 posted on 08/16/2005 4:53:42 PM PDT by Bombardier (Those who willingly accept dhimmitude are traitors to all humanity.)
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To: mtbopfuyn
I finally did some digging and found out they were half brother and sister!

Are you aware that this is a totally ambiguous (antriguous?) statement?
Who is "they"?

The parents?
The children?
All of them?

90 posted on 08/16/2005 4:53:57 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: Alouette

sounds A LOT like South Central Pennsylvania.....like the town of Waynesboro....

I swear that town of upwards of 15,000 had only 4 last names.....


91 posted on 08/16/2005 4:54:53 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: hang 'em

Wow...would love to read that piece...do you recall where you read this?


92 posted on 08/16/2005 4:56:24 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve)
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To: Alouette
I waited 'till after work hours, so might be a repeat:

Title should be shortened to delete "infant".

That would explain the tendency to strap explosives to themselves (as adults) and light the fuse.

93 posted on 08/16/2005 4:57:28 PM PDT by norton
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Does the inbreeding in Arkansas, Mississippi, etc. explain why they believe in the Bible? Perhaps inbreeding breeds in religion.

Your question told me more about you than I care to know. You should save revalations about yourself for your personal page.

94 posted on 08/16/2005 4:58:00 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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To: visualops
Given my disdain for the soft sciences (all soft - no science) I wasn't citing those studies for any purpose
other than their being an example of inbreeding.

As for practicing eugenics on the Arabs, why bother? They are doing it to themselves, and like amateur surgeons, their results are not pretty.

Even if one did want to practice a bit of eugenics on the Saudi's, for example, any competent geneticist would insist on starting with at least a normal gene pool, not a degraded one.

'Tis a sorry ting indeed, when a cultural group can't even qualify for the likes of Margret Sanger.
95 posted on 08/16/2005 5:00:10 PM PDT by GladesGuru ("In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles)
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To: visualops
Given my disdain for the soft sciences (all soft - no science) I wasn't citing those studies for any purpose
other than their being an example of inbreeding.

As for practicing eugenics on the Arabs, why bother? They are doing it to themselves, and like amateur surgeons, their results are not pretty.

Even if one did want to practice a bit of eugenics on the Saudi's, for example, any competent geneticist would insist on starting with at least a normal gene pool, not a degraded one.

'Tis a sorry ting indeed, when a cultural group can't even qualify for the likes of Margret Sanger.
96 posted on 08/16/2005 5:00:25 PM PDT by GladesGuru ("In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles)
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To: Alouette
When are those people going to learn that breeding with the son's of Satan, will produce demonic, freaky creatures?
97 posted on 08/16/2005 5:01:27 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (veni vidi Visa - I came, I saw, I shopped!)
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To: MeanWestTexan

I was referring to it's comparison to islam.
Prior to 1500 years ago, there was no islam, I don't care what they claim!


98 posted on 08/16/2005 5:05:09 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: RichInOC
"Well, to be fair, Abu Hamza's like that because he used to clear landmines for the Muj...apparently by pounding on them."

Must have used a pair of snow shoes and a basketball.

Inbreeding...that explains a lot.
99 posted on 08/16/2005 5:12:23 PM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: Graymatter
The "Cousin Couples" website conveniently forgets to mention Queen Victoria who married her cousin and whose offspring weakened the royal houses of Europe.
100 posted on 08/16/2005 5:13:15 PM PDT by Andy'smom
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