Average rates of marriages between first cousins among Arabs. UAE=United Arab Emirates
One word: Incest.
Too Funny, but we knew this from their behaviour.
Inbreeding
Oh, I can hardly wait for the kickback on this piece of research! It might be advisable for this scientist to invest in some personal security. Any cartoonists out there?
Wow, that chart is amazing.
Cletus Akhbar!
Those big black tents, and social restrictions preventing men from seeing or speaking to their prospective wives before marriage, can conceal some major physical and mental defects that would make a woman unmarriageable and largely undateable in any normal society.
As long as the young and promising of thier culture keep stepping up to win Darwin Awards, we can expect the trend to continue...
If I'd know how to do it at the time...
I should have saved a copy/screen-shot of the Palestinian Authority's
own web-page that discussed the in-freakin-credibley high levels of
cousin marriage in the PA areas.
Sounds much more retrograde than even the old stereotypes about
inbreeding in places like Oklahoma (my home state), Arkansas and
other southern states.
Consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person.
The degree of relative consanguinity can be illustrated with a consanguinity table, in which each level of lineal consanguinity (i.e., generation) appears as a row, and individuals with a collaterally-consanguinious relationship share the same row.
The connotations of degree of consanguinity varies by context (e.g., Canon law, Roman law, et al.). Most cultures define a degree of consanguinity below which sexual interrelationships are regarded as incestuous (the "prohibited degree of kinship"). In the Catholic Church, unwittingly marrying a closely-consanguinious blood relative is grounds for an annulment, but dispensations were granted, actually almost routinely (the Catholic Church's ban on marriage within the fourth degree of relationship (third cousins) lasted from 1550 to 1917; before that, the prohibition was to marriages between as much as seventh degree of kinship).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consanguinity
Have read somewhere that almost 50% of the marriages among Iraqis involved cousins (first, second, third, ect) that were arranged by their families, I'm sure this is one factor that contributes to them having a much higher degree of tribalism, sectarian strife, and the like over there compared to the West and elsewhere where it is rare.
And the inbreeding is producing murderous psychopaths.
These are the filthy, inbred, brainwashed psychotics we're supposed to reason with and make deals with, which they always break.
They are about 1000 years behind in everything and yet they play the rest of the world for fools, and win every time.
These "people" are not our equals, they belong to the largest brainwashing cult in history, it would take 100 years to de-program HALF of the population from their, slaughter Israel, slaughter the west, slaughter the non-muslim mindsets.
Excuse my barbarism, but the only solution is to start killing these people by the millions, which we'll never do, Americans don't do Holocausts.
Which is why, eventually, probably not in my lifetime, we will lose, OR slaughter them by the millions.
FYI.
When you and the guys go out cruisin', looking to get lucky and the best you can do is a Goat, or your sister or first cuz, what can one expect?
Unfortunately they deal in volume of births. Fortunately they deal in crappy behavior that gets them "offed" early in their miserable, non productive lives.
Consanguineous marriage within social/occupational class boundaries in Pakistan.Shami SA, Grant JC, Bittles AH.
Department of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Data on patterns of consanguineous marriage were collected from 5340 families resident in eight cities in the Pakistan province of Punjab. To assess whether social and/or occupational class was interacting with consanguinity, information also was obtained on the hereditary qaum to which each family belonged. In the present generation 46.5% of all marriages were contracted at the level of second cousin or closer, with an average coefficient of inbreeding (F) of 0.0286, and the results indicated that in each of the seventeen qaums there was strong preference for marriage to a close biological relative. However, significant differences existed in the distribution of consanguineous marriage by qaum membership, which could interfere with the interpretation of studies into the biological effects of inbreeding.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8200883&dopt=Abstract
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25-60% of all marriages are consanguineous...
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Quaint native custom. Who are we to judge? We celebrate diversity. We certainly cannot impose our values. Who is to say that one society is better than any other?