Posted on 12/14/2018 5:23:00 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Ruba and Saqib both carry a gene for an incurable condition, which means their children have a one-in-four chance of dying in early childhood. They've already lost three. Ruba now wants IVF, to select a healthy embryo. Saqib is putting his trust in Allah. And some relatives want them to separate and remarry.
Ruba Bibi had not wanted to marry so young. She had planned to do A-levels and go to university, but before she had finished her GCSEs her parents arranged for her to marry Saqib Mehmood, her cousin, in Pakistan. Born and brought up in Bradford, Ruba had visited Pakistan twice before the wedding - once when she was four and once when she was 12. She couldn't really remember the man she was now engaged to and had never spent time alone with him. He was 27 and worked as a driver. She was 17.
"I was really nervous because I didn't really know him," she remembers...
After three months in Pakistan she was pregnant. She returned to Bradford two months later, shocked to be having a baby so soon. But also happy.
When their son, Hassan, was born in 2007 she excitedly called Saqib to tell him that all was well, although the baby seemed to sleep a lot and had trouble feeding.
"I just thought it was normal," Ruba says...
"When I went in, the doctor told me it was very bad news. She gave me a leaflet and said he has this condition and it's very rare...."
Ruba had no idea that both she and her cousin carried the recessive gene for I-cell, a rare inherited condition that prevents a child growing and developing properly.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Yeah, except that the sick leftists will demand that the British taxpayer save these kids over the natives.
Lucky guy, as in the American.
Good to know. I am 80. My great grandmother married her first cousin in rural German Virginia. All small families since then as far as I know are normal.
Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels has written extensively about Muslim inbreeding and the consequences, both for the individuals themselves and the larger society who are then taxed to support the defectives...
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