Yes but I was saying the same thing … I said the issue is a race problem rather than a cousin problem … Admittedly the cousin chain becomes the race problem … But only if there are other factors at play … These are marrying cousins out of obligation rather than by desire … Because obligation will mean the genetically and otherwise naturally un-selectable people will end up getting married and having kids … Whereas if cousin marriages were allowed out of natural desires then probably only the fittest cousins would inter-marry hence eliminating the problem of congenital disorders … The reason is therefore not the cousin marriage, but in the practice of marrying biologically undesirable people who happen to be from the family or from the tribe.
Islam allows us to marry cousins, but it advises us to marry the best as well … So health, beauty are factors that we should be looking for … The reports are making it out that cousin marriages cause mutations in genes, but that is not true … the mutations are already there … Where we would otherwise naturally breed them out, by only marrying the fittest cousins, our customs are preventing that when we start marrying any cousin … regardless of their conditions.
And certain traits are favourable too … Sometimes breeding out a problem also means breeding out a benefit on the flip side. It may be that we are more prone to disease, but it may also be that we are more fertile … Who knows?
I still think it is vendetta against cousin marriages designed to shed bad light on Muslims to suit certain political agendas.