Baroness Deech a leading family lawyer and crossbench peer is set to call for a campaign to deter first cousin marriages amongst British Muslims which London Muslim supports. In particular I warmly welcome the call for testing of genetic defects and the establishment of a register of people carrying genetic diseases to prevent two carriers from marrying.
The practice appears to be largely a British Pakistani Muslim one with in some areas like Bradistan up to 75% of couples marrying their first cousins. The health implications of child defects and serious genetic disorder are beyond doubt with some figures indicating that British Pakistanis, half of whom appear to be the victim of cousin marriages are up to 13 times more likely to produce children with genetic disorders. In Birmingham one in ten children born to cousin marriages die or suffer from genetic order.
London Muslim urges the British Pakistani Muslim community to start a debate about eradicating this practice for the sake of the children rather than simply thinking of another ruse to get a family member a visa.
I think the problem isn't so bad when it is the odd cousin marriage here or there, however when descendants of cousin marriages marry cousins themselves, then it starts to become a problem.
ReplyDeleteShut up idiot. Who the hell do you think you are making up your own rules about who people can marry and who they can't.
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Honestly mate, I'm muslim and if you spoke this crap in front of my face you'd get a good slap.
I am not surprised. It is to be expected among muslims as arabs have followed these barbaric and disgraceful practices for generations.
ReplyDeleteArabs consequently = muslims
as they export their abhorrent tribal customs as religious diktats, e.g. burka, veil, marrying 8-year olds and enslavement of black Africans through the Trans Saharan slave trade.
Jews on the other hand forbid such practices.
Family histories and lines are recorded and stored by the rabbis and disputes adjudicated to prevent inbreeding.
Black Africans absolutely forbid it.
Iraqis, Pakistanis and other muslims so that kind of stuff, blindly following Arabs.
Ignoramuses of the Modern Age of Man.
To the people who do not know about islam, The prophet mohammed adviced us and said to us it is better to marry from outside the family and he explained the reason behind this.As a muslim my prophet mohammed told us to believe and love all the previous prophets and this explains how this religion is great and i wish for all the people who will read this will not make a judgement before reading about the islam from good sources.
ReplyDeleteI don’t want to be rude to anyone but please please stop this cousin marriage thing happing in this day and age in the world we live in today or at least UK EU US because look at it this way your cousins share the same grand parents meaning they share the same blood line as you it would be like marring your own brother and sister so the people who think that its right to marry there cousin should just marry there own brother and sister why draw the line if you think that its right to marry your cousin?
ReplyDeleteThe main reasons why this corrupt practice is still followed is because of family pressure because the family want to keep there Property, Land, Jewellery, Money and wealth in the family and a lack of education along with village culture and the greed of coming to UK EU USA because UK has a benefit system along with free health care known as the NHS (National Health Service) every one on benefits is treated free of charge, and because these families are uneducated and stupid they are all on benefits just to rub more salt in the wound they are known to abuse the benefit system in many different ways. They try to send as much benefit money as possible back to there poor families often living in poor housing or no housing at all, In most cases- they also have lots of children If your thinking why do they have lots of children its because they are uneducated they don’t have a job so that’s the only why they keep there self’s busy and they live in a joint family system meaning they have an extra load on there backs in the event of old parents to look after
I am sure that for a Visa and passport to the countries mentioned above they would even marry there own Mother, Father, Daughter and any others closely related members of the family, Not only that but if they had no money to get the passport visa and tickets to the UK I am sure that they would even encourage there Mothers, Wife/Wives, Sisters and Daughters into prostitution, It is also a sad fact that some people have sold there daughters in Pakistan to live and this kind of story regally pops up on many Pakistani news channels such as ARY News UK
Also the people who incest marry cousins tend to have children that are born with major mental and physical defects along with learning difficulties and the kids suffer through no fault of there own and because the parents are un educated and are unaware of genetic problems that can be caused by cousin marriage think that it’s the will of god (ALLAH DI MARZI) as shown in Dispatches programme, UK should educate these people in as many ways as possible in there own languages about the dangers of Incest cousin marriage yes it will cost money but the money that this education campaign would cost would be less then the treatment of Insect cousin marriage children in total
This corrupt practice must cost the NHS millions and millions of pounds MAYBE IF THE NHS REFUSE TO TREAT THESE INCEST COUSIN MARRIAGE KIDS |THEN THE PARENTS OF THE KIDS WHO WANT THEM TO MARRY THERE COUSINS MIGHT HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS
Why do the people at the top (UK govt and other authorities) NOT understand that if they were to banned cousin marriage that would in my view stop forced marriages in the UK or at least bring the number of cases down drastically
At least children living in UK EU US should refuse this kind of marriage
no matter what the outcome is of that refusal and they should seek help from places like the forced marriage set up by the govt which I think is a very good step
I have to disagree, marrying your cousin does not significantly increase the risk of genetics 1% only. The key is whether a relative or non-relative has a bad genetic trait, unlike marrying your full sibling/parent one gene copy in which human beings have two sets of genes one good and bad.
ReplyDeleteIn muslim tradition you are not allowed to date or hang out with non-mahram folks, I have not done research to find out whether cousins are an exception to the non-mahram rule, but it seems that if cousins were not family then marriage would not be prevalent, the conflict of interest is the aunt/uncle being mahram and acting as a wali/guardian in marriage and hajj.
The reason is many of us are descendants of cousin marriage, and folks such as Einstein , Roosevelt, etc married cousins. If genetic risks were that bad a huge population in the middle east would be wiped out, but I do understand what you are focusing on as mahram and na-mahram.
Marrying your cousin is marrying your half-aunt or half uncle who ironically are mahram.
It does increase the risk because they keep doing it again and again to keep land and money in the family
ReplyDeleteIf they don't stop they will become history
WHY DON'T GOVTS. AROUND THE WORLD BANNED THIS SICK AND CORRUPT PRACTICE