[eccentric]

"According to the BBC, 55% of Pakistani-Britons are married to a first cousin, and as a corollary to that produce "just under a third" of all children in the UK with genetic illnesses, despite being only 3% of the total births."

This is worth reading, there is more information.

[MadJack]

Interesting article, but it begs the question: If the Muslims are breeding themselves into potential extinction, why on Earth would I want that to stop?

[livius]

The incest/genetic defect problem among Muslims is certainly undeniable. The statistics are pretty damning. I was impressed by the fact that they have 1/3 of the births with genetic defects in the UK - and only 3% of the population.

[Earthdweller]

And all along I thought their keystone was beastly brutality. Wow, so much to build on...

[sphinx]

A friend, as a young officer in WWII, was stationed for a time in Delaware. Eligible men were in short supply and he was one of the available officers who were more-or-less pressed into service as social escorts for the armies of DuPont girls floating around Wilmington. He heard through the grapevine that the DuPonts had been intermarrying a bit too closely -- I don't suppose they were marrying first cousins, but a degree or two further removed could still have an effect ever time. Apparently the results were not good, and the docs had had a sit-down with the family elders and told them to cut it out.

The DuPonts might stand out as an interesting case study because they had a good thing going with the company, the city, and the state, which was virtually a DuPont estate. There were clear incentives to keep things in the family. I suppose the same thing has happened many times over the years when aristocracies of land, wealth, or status start to get a little clannish. You don't have to go the full Deliverance route to see the effects. I don't know enough about Muslim societies to comment, but the thesis is intriguing.

[DuncanWaring]

Note the author appears to be the producer of the bacon-bookmarked-Koran-burning video, also.

Same name, anyway.

[Hardraade]

There will be humans left. Or there will be muslims. It’s that simple.

[drellberg]

All I can say is ... wow! Not sure that I have read a more disturbing piece in a long, long time.

[GladesGuru]

Her central genetic thesis is doubtful. Yes, “hybrid vigor” is a valid genetic construct.

No, breeding the genetically deficient with the normal won’t produce superior offspring. It just produces more offspring with the genetic defects spread out amongst the succeeding generations.

Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and what Moslims do.

[taildragger]

I have a retired College Professor (Conservative politically and Jewish, yes he is one of us) and he relayed an interesting fact. When trade started to occur on the “Banks” of Venice (yes that is where the word came from) the ships needed loans and were charged “interest” by merchants. This was usury and not allowed in Islam, so they stopped trading. With that said, I am curious, was it not only this Cousin-Marrying and the lack of interaction with the trading world that moved them further inward and caused the over century old downward spiral?

[HangnJudge]

BTTT

[taildragger]

Does anyone think about these factors....

* Even in nature, the Female has the final answer in choosing their mates, not so much in this case. Maybe the female of the species have innate sense of what would be good genetic stock, but this paradigm takes nature and nurture and throws it on it's ear.

*Where is the NOW gang, if they had any courage and went world wide like "Wayne Rafkey ( SEIU )" they would be protesting in Saudi Arabia, for no head coverings of any kind, driving rights, not walking behind your man, and the ability to meet a man without the company of a family member. But they are cowards so I don't hold my breath. It is sad the way they treat women, IMHO it is as bad a slavery yet no one speaks up about it. Compare the liberties of a women in Israel vs. Saudi Arabia, and then tell me who the evil ones are. paging the UN, paging the UN, oh are those crickets are hear with the silence....

[zeugma]

BFLR