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| Rare gender identity defect hits Gaza families |
| 2009-12-18 |
| Gaza City (CNN) -- Two Palestinian teenagers stroll amid the mounds of rubble left by last year's Israeli military offensive, listening to the tinny beat of a Turkish pop song playing on a cell phone. Nadir Mohammed Saleh and Ahmed Fayiz Abed Rabo are cousins and next-door neighbors. With their gelled hair, buttoned-down shirts and "Only my appearance, my haircut and clothing, makes me look like a boy," Ahmed says, gesturing with his hands across his face. "Inside, I am like a female. I am a girl." Until last summer, both Nadir and Ahmed were -- for all intents and purposes -- girls. They wore female headscarves, attended girls' school and even answered to the female first names Navin and Ola. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #17 "Roughly 1 in 10 affected" I assume it's recessive, which means at least twenty percent more Gazans are silent carriers of a single copy of the defective gene, concentrated in certain family lines. Then there are all the other ugly little genetic issues, both physical and mental, not mentioned in the article. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-18 23:00 |
| #16 "Roughly 1 in 10 affected" |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-12-18 16:59 |
| #15 Very interesting and insightful article Tipper. Thanks! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-12-18 13:23 |
| #14 Notice anything? Global Prevalence of consanguinity |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-12-18 13:20 |
| #13 Stanley Kurtz addressed the question of cousin marriage (and its connection to the veil) in this excellent article and why any form of democracy is not likely to happen in any Muslim Middle East country (or Afghanistan)anytime soon. Veil of Fears |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-12-18 13:05 |
| #12 If your family tree resembles a telephone pole....you are gonna have problems. Kinda makes me wonder if rape might balance out to be a "good" thing in this kind of culture. The kind that doesn't involve a family member, that is. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-12-18 09:39 |
| #11 No doubt the Left and U.N. will blame Israel for it and not the Islamic Culture. After all: All cultures are equal right? Judge a tree by its fruit. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-12-18 08:31 |
| #10 Barbarians. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-12-18 07:52 |
| #9 Its not just the cousin marriage problem. It the intraclan marriage problem. If clans intermarried more the genetic variance would be greater. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2009-12-18 06:58 |
| #8 IMO, ROPers' inbreeding caused physical aberrations are nothing compared to mental aberrations. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-18 05:55 |
| #7 Violate the laws of nature will you? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-18 05:45 |
| #6 Palestine is just a small sample of the rest of the Middle East From that I deduce that its a rampant problem across the whole of that shit hole.. But do I care , no . |
| Posted by: Oscar 2009-12-18 05:24 |
| #5 "There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in the Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya, where Nadir and Ahmed live. yeah? I knew there was something about Hamas that was swishy. Maybe it was the way they thrust their crotch at the camera during gun sex...but never seem to do too well in a fight. cant win a War that way, honey. Oh, and the appeal to send money. Yeah, Palestinians. Sirhan Sirhan in the slammer for life, pushing that Library cart from cell to cell. And his new name in the cell block ( he's had it for twenty years at least) is "Goodpussy". We have so much to be thankful for from the Palestinians. They give new meaning to the word. "ASSet." |
| Posted by: Angleton9 2009-12-18 05:17 |
| #4 Until the sex-change operation is completed, Palestinian officials won't change the gender on their identity cards to "male," thus restricting their access to higher education. The heart bleeds. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2009-12-18 02:53 |
| #3 I thought liberals already reassured everyone that marrying cousins is safe? |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-12-18 01:44 |
| #2 Ultimately, this is very sad. And infuriating, that such a result has been visited on these hapless kids by their elders' mind-numbing stupidity and brutishness. |
| Posted by: lex 2009-12-18 00:36 |
| #1 Is it just me, or does anyone else here think that they're not gonna stop trying to pick up dates at family reunions in spite of the fact that there are four people (at least) in the clan with this genetic problem? If your family tree resembles a telephone pole....you are gonna have problems. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-18 00:17 |