psyah
January 1, 2014, 10:18am
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Re: Cousin Marriage … Islam Allows it but…
I don’t think it needs to be banned. That’s an extreme. How would You even go about doing that in Weatern countries. In Canada they ask you if you are related because they don’t allow cousin marriages (to what extent I’m not sure) but they made sure I wasn’t marrying my cousin when we went for our paperwork. It’s detrimental because people are uninformed. People have a problem with stepping out of their comfort zones and I don’t mean to generalize at all but ignorance plays a part. We are so set in certain cultural ways, it may take the worst to happen for some families to realize the harm they could doing to themselves. Generational gaps are necessary but people just don’t want to budge. It could be majboori, it could be ignorance but when something is a sensitive subject in our religion/cultures it tends to not ever get discussed. Telling people to not marry their cousins I imagine would offend a lot of people but it’s one of those things that needs to discussed as it relates to our time. Sometimes it’s hard to explain to people what they don’t want to hear but unfortunately somebody needs to take the plunge. Start a small campaign if it has grown into such an issue within the Islamic communities.
There is not enough evidence to suggest that cousin marriage is an issue. That is the point I am making. According to the data used by the above article writers there is more evidence to suggest that Pakistanis marrying other Pakistanis is worse than marrying cousins. But you will never hear the British papers advocating Pakistanis to marry more of their own Whites and intermix, will you?