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| From The Middle East Information Center, extracted from an article in The New York Times (link found in Gene Expression). When she was 17, marrying age for a Saudi girl, Salha al-Hefthi was presented with a husband. ... He was the son of her father's brother — her first cousin — and everyone, including the bride, agreed that "a first cousin was a first choice," she said. The couple had two healthy boys, now 22 and 20, but their third child, a girl, was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a crippling and usually fatal disease that was carried in the genes of both parents. Their fourth, sixth and seventh children were also born with the disorder. Spinal muscular atrophy and the gene that causes it, along with several other serious genetic disorders, are common in Saudi Arabia, where women have an average of six children and where in some regions more than half of the marriages are between close relatives.
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| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #6 This problem of theirs stems from the fact that they have't been overran by a meanass bunch that rapes, kills, loots and burns, in that order (snicker), and have their gene pool deepened. Nothing like a runthrough by a Genghis Khan look alike to freshen up the family tree. |
| Posted by: Old Fogey 2004-07-24 8:35:12 PM |
| #5 ... and everyone, including the bride, agreed that "a first cousin was a first choice," she said. While religious fanaticism, and terrorism especially, may not result from inbreeding, they most certainly rely upon tightly interwoven familial structures and their bonds of trust. This sort of reliability's price is now coming into focus, at least for the outside world if not for the Arabs themselves. Distrust of outsiders (i.e., xenophobia), an inability to accept cultural or doctrinal diversity and consistent discouragement of progressive social elements are all coming home to roost. If Arab nations cannot overcome these somewhat easily surrmountable obstacles, they will stumble and fall into the pit of humiliation and despond they have so furiously dug for themselves over the last several centuries. I say, let them. They have so severely bitten any and all helping hands that the onus of advancement and self-improvement is now entirely upon themselves. They have the wealth and access to technology needed to bring their societies forward unaided by the benison of Western offices. If they are unable to do so, let them fester and subside back into the oozing puss of their own infected culture. Should any continued embrace of terrorism be exhibited as a route towards unearned expansion of |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-07-24 6:13:04 PM |
| #4 AP - intermarrage of blood relatives is also a huge problem in Amish and Mennonite communities in the Midwest. As you might imagine, birth defects are statistically common. For Amish children 9 years old and younger, the death rate from congenital defects is 50 percent higher than that among white, non-Amish children. Thankfully, the last two generations have tried to address the problem by looking for prospective husbands and wives outside their local geographical area but as you said, until and unless the gene pool expands past the puddle stage, defects will be both severe and common. The Amish and Mennonite share a great many traits with the 'slims - One day I'll flesh out this theory at a later time and post it here for comment when time permits. But where they differ, and this is huge - when confronted by people who have different religious backgrounds than themselves, their first thought is to ignore them, not kill them. |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2004-07-24 5:18:58 PM |
| #3 Why don't they cut out the middle (wo)man and just F themselves. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-07-24 4:35:21 PM |
| #2 I have seen 1 in a million type health conditions in some rural Alaska villages where the pool of marryable people gets into the cousin thing. Problem is that the only solution is to expand the gene pool. In SA, for the most part it seems that they have hardly even started. Their culture perpetuates this phenomenon. The culture will have to change before the gene pool starts changing. On another note, anybody heard if Anon1617 and her husband got out of Saudi Arabia yet? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-07-24 1:45:00 PM |
| #1 No wonder filthy muslims are so fucking stupid. They're all retards. They eat shit...and bark at the moon. |
| Posted by: Halfass Pete 2004-07-24 11:53:08 AM |