Posted on 04/13/2011 3:02:23 AM PDT by Scanian
Kind of reminded me of a very creepy X-Files episode (”The House?”) about a family of bizarrely inbred rednecks.
Turns your stomach.
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.
It is bad enough I do not like Johnny Mathis, but after seeing that episode (yes it is haunting) I can't listen to "Wonderful Wonderful" without those images of the "family" cruising in the Caddy, I will turn the song off if it comes on the radio....
BTTT
* 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....
The barbarity of Islamic social behavior has one source: and that is the bloody-handed, delusional, lecherous, but fabulously effective religious charlatan known as "The Prophet".
This barbarity comes down to the present day in three forms: the Koran; the Sunnah; and Shari'a.
The Koran (basic scripture), regarded as being directly authored by a spirit entity known as Allah, and thus intrinsically unreformable, is in many respects a handbook for abuse.
The Sunna (biographical account of the life, habits and practices of Muhammad himself) will be found to be full of crimes, perversions and atrocities, all presented as morally exemplary.
The Shari'a (legal code) based on the Koran and the Sunna, is an authoritative --- and in many unhappy parts of the world, enforceable --- formulation of thse barbarities into mandatory practice.
This has nothing to do with the genetic deterioration of various populations. It can infect people of any racial background in a single generation via constant propaganda and intimidation, whether they are the offspring of 50 generations of cousin-marriage or not.
The genome deterioration and subsequent rise in disability is a tragedy, but in the geopolitical context, a distraction. The problem is not Arab inbreeding. The problem is Islam.
Hey, dems fightn’ words
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My Great Aunt was the first Female to graduate from
John's Hopkins Medical School - 1922
A Brilliant and Formidable Woman
I've seen plenty of poverty
Homes lucky to have an outhouse
Very Limited educational opportunities
People Ignorant, but not stupid
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Oak Ridge National Lab is
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Dolly Parton came from very meager beginnings
Sounds “Country” but is brilliant
Patricia Neal (actress) was a local, but
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If "Re-entrant Genetics" occurred,
it was because 100 years ago, the average person was
born, raised, got married, and died
never having traveled greater than 10 miles
because of geographic limitations
Locals are quite aware that Flatlanders,
hearing the Southern Appalachian Accent,
underestimate the speaker's intelligence,
and use it to their advantage with "City Folk"
In my experience however,
Kissn' Cuzzin's were actually rare
So let's put that canard permanently to rest.
On the larger point concerning Muslim inbreeding, "Islamic Jihad" by M.A. Khan shows that medieval Islamic reproduction consisted largely of Arabian males mating with enslaved women brought back to western Asia as the spoils of war (India was a prime target, but they craved the fair-skinned Serbs, Slavs and Magyars, too).
Islamic conquest is no longer what it was 1000 years ago, but there is a constant influx of "new blood" as previously isolated tribal cultures intermix because of modern pan-Islamism, and because of --- very regrettably --- conversions.
Muslim men from western Asia and North Africa who are students in Europe and the USA, for instance, are highly applauded if they seek out Western women for marriage, provided, of ourse, that the woman converts to Islam. And that happens a lot
< It maes me shake my head and wonder about the mental deficiencies, not of the Muslim men, but of the Western women.
BFLR
That's certainly true. But the genetic impact is only another thing that reveals that the problem with Islam is that it is evil at its core, destroys everything it touches and produces nothing good.
I think that there should be preaching in Christian churches on a daily basis that points out the difference between the truth of Christ (and the Christian vision of life, which frees and makes creative) and the falsity of Mohammed's evil fantasy cult (which enslaves, destroys and brings darkness).
Cousin marriage was legal throughout the USA until the 1860's, and is still legal -- sometimes with restriction, but mostly without restrictions--- in the majority of states. It is also legal throughout Canada and Mexico; in fact, the US is the only Western country that has any restrictions on cousin marriage at all.
So it's just factually wrong to see cousin-marriage is a distinctively Islamic thing, although Muslims (especially the Arab Muslims) do socially favor it to a high degree, whereas in the USA, even where legal, we tend to socially disfavor it.
Cousin marriage is only one of the problems; it has been allowed in non-Islamic cultures at various times, particularly in Protestant cultures (on the other hand, you had to get a dispensation in the Catholic Church because the general rule was that a first cousin was out of the running).
The other problem is polygamy, which does bad things to the gene-pool because you have a large local concentration of people with the same father. He, in turn, has at least some wives who are probably closely related to him because of the effect of not prohibiting cousin marriage and permitting polygamy.
The Jews, like all other primitive peoples, were polygamous, and God essentially brought them to monogamy. The Greeks and the Romans also abandoned polygamy, and one of the great strengths of Western culture was probably the establishment of monogamy, which meant not only better conditions for women, but more dedication on the part of men to their offspring, more traceable inheritance routes, and better, albeit unconscious, genetic selection.
I think people often discount the “side-effects” of religious practice and law. Islam is a perfect example of how a false religion can poison its entire environment.
Oh, heavens, you got that right. Polygamy + cousin-marriage (even without the rest of the Koranic claptrap) is going to yield a society just fraught with family dysfunction.
Plus, I strongly support the Catholic canonical prohibition against consanguinity, and I am convinced it contributed to Europe’s social, moral, and genetic health.
My point was just that cousin-marriage is not a distinctinvely Islamic thing. In fact, patriarchal nomadic and subsistence-agriculture societies tend to be cousin-marriers, in part because it keeps the flocks and property undivided, and in the clan.
I am fully persuaded that Islam itself was nspired by a bodiless entity or entities not in subjection to the Lord God. Need I say more?
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