[liberateUS]

Any chance they could inbreed themselves out of existance?????

Just wishin'!!

[evad]

About 40 percent of Muslim and Druze women and 70 percent of Bedouin women in the region were found to be married to first- or second-degree relatives.

Ahhh..
the West Virginia sect.

[Gefreiter]

"About 40 percent of Muslim and Druze women and 70 percent of Bedouin women in the region were found to be married to first- or second-degree relatives."

You don't say?

[THEUPMAN]

About 40 percent of Muslim and Druze women and 70 percent of Bedouin women in the region were found to be married to first- or second-degree relatives.



eeeeewwwwwwww ..... a real kiss your sister moment ...

[LibSnubber]

"The program emphasizes the fact that consanguineous marriage is in no way mandated by Islam. Rooted in ancient custom, consanguinity is nonetheless widespread in the Arab world; for example, a 1989 study in Iraq found 53 percent of the subjects to be consanguineously married."

Ah, so they don't have to marry their relatives - they just like to. That is totally gross.

[dennisw]

btttt

Clans love inbreeding. It strengthens them. aside from the genetic defects. It strengthens clan solidarity and common purpose.

Arabs are very tribal so this works out great for them

[dennisw]

First cousin marriage is not so bad in isolation. But when done over generations it compounds itself and makes for genetic defects. Allah FUBAR!!

[satchmodog9]

Explains so much.

[metmom]

Gee, now the Arabs will have another excuse to want to annihilate the Jews.

[Tijeras_Slim]

A real Sheik Ned Al Beatty Moment.

[atomicpossum]

New Anti-terrorism Measure: Banjos for Bedouins.

[squarebarb]

Yes, but...up until say a thousand years ago wouldn't all people everywhere be marrying more-or-less close genetic relatives?

People weren't very mobile until recently.

[TADSLOS]

Hey, when your "religion" is open to any interpretation you please to allow you to have your way with Sis, then toss her as your "honor killing" stabbing post as part of your religion's legal arm (sharia) while providing your "religion" with a fresh, chromosome shy future suicide bomber for the cause...I mean, it doesn't get any better than that, does it?

[Space Wrangler]

So basically this article says that many arabs are crazy, and will continue to produce crazy off-spring. Osama must be just giddy.

[layman]

All the women look alike in their burkas, but after reading this article I'm thinking they probably all look alike even when they take the burkas off.

[RSmithOpt]

"............Just as modern medicine recognizes genetic sources of many physical illnesses, modern psychology recognizes genetic components in many psychological problems including criminality. Presumably, a region where inbreeding is rife—and reinforced through successive generations—should also have a greater frequency of such mental ailments. Though, not surprisingly, there seem to have been no studies in that regard given the delicacy of the subject, the high levels of social pathology, violence, and terrorism in the Arab world suggest that inbreeding is one of the causes.

OK,. So take a religion like Islam, mix well with continual genetically reproductive induced mental illnesses (insanity, borderline personality disorders, OCD, manic depression, bipolar, etc., etc.) and what has the world received? You got it!! Global terrorism.

Believe it or not, back in the '70's with the Israeli war, Palestinian protests, hijackings, bombings, etc., I told several people in college, friends, relatives to take note of the look in most of the Arabs eyes and watch and listen to what they say and do, and you would see that there was something seriously wrong with them as a people. I could never determine if it were a loss of spirituality, loss of purpose, pure hatred, simple insainity, or all of it wrapped into one head. Didn't matter, whatever I saw and still see, it is there. I stood by that comment then, and I stand by it now.

Why is it that the educated Arabs and Persians and clerics for the last 50 years have not brought this out to their own people that crossing blood lines 1st and 2nd degree was not healthy for animals and that includes humans?

Of course some would say I'm racist with such statements, but, that would be akin that parent/child incest is OK too, well, at least speaking from a mental aspect. BTW, there're some Westerners too that carry that look for whatever the cause(s).

[mosquitobite]

A history lesson from the bible: if you follow the tree of Adam and Eve all the way to Abraham and Sarah, inbreeding was quite common. God promised Abraham a son, but by age 75 Sarah still was barren. Abraham has Ishmael with Hagar at 90 years old.
Muslims claim the first born son, Ishmael, was an apostle and prophet, and was the legitimate successor. Christians and Jews believe it can only be the son resulting from conception within the marriage, or Isaac. Jews believe further that their divine message comes not only from Isaac, but from Isaac's son Jacob.
According to all 3 scriptures (the Bible, the Koran and the Holy Scriptures of Judaism), God calls upon Abraham to sacrifice his son as the greatest test of faith. However, in the Christian and Jewish Bibles, the son chosen to sacrifice was Isaac. Muslims believe it was Ishmael. (Note: Neither son was actually sacrificed because God was just practicing a cruel test. In the end, a ram was sacrificed.)
From these original family feuds, the division between the religions continued to deepen. Christians follow the teachings of Moses, Jesus and Abraham. In Islamic religion, Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century carried the true word. They believed the teachings of Moses and Jesus to be distortions of the truth for which Muhammad was the remedy. Jews continued their split from Christianity by not accepting the divinity of Jesus as "the son of God". They believe God is spiritual, not flesh, and has no human attributes. Jews also do not believe in original sin nor heaven and hell.

"Again, it is amazing that the hatred and violence we see today between Muslims, Christians and Jews were born of the same teachings from a man called Abraham."

And all 3 essentially believe in the same God!

http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/three_religions.html

[metalcor]

I can see where such practices would cut down on marital arguments about the in-laws. But you couldn't say to your kids --"You must get that from your Mom's side of the family!"

[technochick99]

These rates being generally twice as high among Israeli Arabs as among Israeli Jews, by 2002 an Israeli health program launched in the late 1980s had lowered the rate among Western Galilee Arabs to about 1.5 that of the Jews in the area.

Wow. No matter how they are treated by the Arab world, the Jews still try to help them. That says a lot.