Actually, not all autosomal recessives are harmful.
The Moslem preference for first cousin marriage may well be based on folk wisdom that allows those societies to isolate schizophrenia (and 5 other serious mental problems) from the rest of society.
I went looking for the incidence of schizophrenia on the net and found that in the US we have a 1.2% average incidence. African Americans have triple that incidence. Some old studies suggested Checnyans were as high as 9% ~ they, BTW, have some strange marriage rules ~ one set for women and a different set for men. They seem geared to minimizing harmful autosomal recessives, so there may again be a folk observation about breeding habits and resultant mental problems.
Just guessing but given the extreme legalism found in Islam, their schizophrenia rate is probably up around 20% or maybe even more!
Bet it's difficult to find moderates in that crowd ~ but rather easy to locate a suicide bomber, or someone happy to kill people for no reason at all.
“Actually incest doesn’t CREATE troublesome genes ~ it merely creates more opportunities for harmful autosomal recessive genes to do a mix and match job. “
Ever see the movie “Wrong Turn” Or “Wrong Turn part 2, 3 and 4”???
Yea it is kinda like that. Basically what you just said only someone had to go put it on the silver screen.
GOOGLE
Anti-incest app built by Iceland college students
Nidhi Subbaraman NBC News
April 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM ET
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The ÍslendingaApp SES(Beta) built by Sad Engineer Studios.
A group of students at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík have created an Android app that prevents Icelanders from accidentally dating their cousins.
The app draws information from the Íslendingabók database, a national record of Iceland residents and family trees dating back into the Middle Ages.
Arnar Aðalsteinsson, Alexander Helgason and Hákon Björnsson, in their final year at the University of Iceland, entered and won an app-building contest sponsored by the tenders of the Íslendingabók database.
When you tap phones with someone who has the app, it brings up an alert if the owners of the two phones share a grandparent. (Of course, if you don’t already know who you share a grandparent with, incest may be the least of your problems, but the team says it is looking into functionality for spotting common great grandparents, too.)
The feature is called “Sifjaspellsspillir” which directly translates to “Incest Destroyer,” though the team prefers the phrase “Incest Spoiler.”
The app has been downloaded 3,651 times at their last check, the team told NBC News. An app for the iPhone is very likely on the way, they say.
“Genealogy is the kind of the national hobby of Iceland,” Friðrik Skúlason, a software engineer who first started building the Íslendingabók database in the 1980s, told NBC News. “On average if you pick two people on the street at random you will find they are related 6 or 7 generations back.”
The database was taken over by genetics company DeCode. Íslendingabók is now a free database for anyone with an Iceland national identification to use online, where they can trace relatives and their contact information.
“[Iceland] is a small community with extensive records gong back centuries, and everybody is related to everybody else,” Skúlason told NBC News. “The database contains every single person who is currently alive or that we have been able to find any information about for the past 1,100 years.”
He hasn’t used the app himself, but Skúlason imagines it will make for good pickup lines at a bar. “My phone would really like to know if it’s related to your phone … there are possibilities,” he says. Although, he adds, most people already know each others’ close relatives well.
About two-thirds of the country has accessed the database at least once, he says, with spikes in activity during Christmas, “I guess when people are writing Christmas cards and trying to remember what is the name of Uncle Joe’s third child and so on,” and during the summer, when people plan the traditional family reunions.
Quite a few Islamics in US psych hospitals.
When you look at their prophet anyone who follows his teachings is going to have some form of mental illness...
Some interesting facts from a New Book...
“The Mental Illness of the Prophet Muhammed”
Exerts:
....the five oldest and most trusted ‘Islamic sources’ do not portray Muhammad a superior being or any kind Godly mercy for mankind. The sources reveal that he was a thief, a liar, an assassin, a pedophile, a shameless womanizer, a promiscuous husband, a rapist, a mass-murderer, a desert pirate, a warmonger, a spineless coward and a calculating and ruthless tyrant. It is certainly not the character profile of the founder of a true religion.
....given some of Muhammad’s well-known documented behaviors, it is certain that he had a conflict-ridden psychological dependence on others..... He equated love with weakness and feared intimacy...... He inflicted pain and abuse on others as his second nature.....
He was unable to give his followers a reason to live, so he gave them enough reasons to die – die in Allah’s name to enter paradise...... He could not convince the Arabs to choose his religion based upon its merits, so he threatened them with damnation....... The religion he preached was more about fantasy, less about proof.
A person who, among other atrocities, orders, and then watches, the beheading of 800 innocent people, and beds the wife of a man whom he had tortured to death on the same night cannot be considered psychologically normal..... Common sense alone tells us that a 51-year-old man, who marries a 6-year-old girl, is abnormal..... The notion that a godly revelation would focus on the sexual desires of a lecherous man is really disgusting.
Muhammad had shown all the symptoms of his lunacy and his prophetic claim was based on the quicksand of grand delusion.... But the irony is that the entire religion of Islam is based on the truth claim of such a man, who could easily swing back and forth between the two extremes – reality and fantasy.
Religion was just a cause for Muhammad. He actually worshipped his own image – not God..... He had created Allah in his own image and attributed to that God the qualities of his own self...... Allah was a plastic entity that Muhammad shaped to meet his needs.....
That is why Allah seems a multidimensional entity in the Qur’an, an obedient servant that Muhammad used on all occasions, from managing the harem affairs of his wives to swearing to punish mercilessly whosoever disagrees with His beloved messenger.
No religion in the world has ever destroyed family ties as Muhammad has done in Islam.
I wonder to what degree the spread of Islam was on the influx of fresh DNA / outbreeding via the captured concubines. The first generation took over by surprise and zeal - the second through training by experienced warriors and without inbreeding depression of their intelligence.