[dennisw]

Not all Muslim populations are equal. Some have lots of first cousin marriage and some do not. It varies from place to place.

First cousin marriage is repulsive. Its like marrying your sister. And some Muslim populations do it generation after generation to keep wealth within the clan. Its crazy!! Leads to low IQs and birth defects. Leads to hyper clannishness.

[Vigilanteman]

Around 70 percent of Pakistanis, 45 percent of Arabs and 25-30 percent of Turks are children of blood-related parents, usually first-cousin marriages.

Sort of fits in with the perception that while most Muslims are bat$h*+ crazy, the Pakistanis are crazier than the Arabs and the Arabs are crazier than the Turks.

First cousin marriages are not unknown in America. In fact, they were fairly common not much more than 150 years ago due to isolation of many communities. I have one such marriage in my family tree within fairly recent times, a great grandmother.

She was a brilliant lady and many of her progeny became educators (my grandfather was a university science professor), military officers, inventors and the like.

The problem is not a first cousin marriage here and there, but a generation after generation thing where all the crazy genes become dominant. That's what we are seeing in the Islamic world, adding the handicap that they begin life subscribed to a crazy totalitarian set of values which can be modified only at great risk to their lives.

[T-Bone Texan]

I’ve read that one big reason for 1st cousin marriages is due to the low level of “social trust” present in those cultures.

In a society where the husband may legally whip/beat/abuse his wife, selling your daughter to a known quantity makes sense.

If you sell to a stranger, who knows what will happen to her.