Cousin marriages - ghar ki murghi??

[Deeba1234]

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@Miss_Noland

Cousin marriages are so distasteful. Apart from all the possible hereditary diseases, what else do you get out of such marriage? If I were you, I wouldn’t talk about it either. Wait.. I wouldn’t have married my cousin.

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@Miss_Noland

Those of you saying just be yourself…well how would you feel if you got into a hot debate about incest with a non-desi. You do know cousin marriages only exist in Muslim countries, right? It’s different when people willingly get involved in incest in the west where it’s illegal. WE MADE IT LEGAL!

its legal, our religion permisses us to marry our cousins. If cousin marriages automatically lead to deformities, disabilities when their offspring are born, then how do you explain the same disabilities in gorey, surely they cant be marrying their cousins…

also if people get their facts stright, genes hardly come into the factor…for downs syndrome..which is probly the most asked about and tested for during pregnancy, has NOTHING TO DO with genes…

and to be honest, if you can marry your cousin, you should be able to tell people as well. if they dont understand, who cares? do you really care that much.shame on you.

Although British Pakistanis account for three per cent of the births in this country, they are responsible for 33 per cent of the 15 to 20,000 children born each year with genetic defects.
Source: Baroness Deech: Rise in marriages between cousins putting children at risk of birth defect | Mail Online

I don’t have a problem with cousin marriages done now and again and when both partners agree to it but carrying it on generation after generation and not wanting/letting the kids marry outside the family obviously leads to problems..

Some people say because it’s been made halal there can never be any problem. Of course Islam permits it but that doesn’t mean we should carry it on every generation, meat has also been made halal but too much of it also leads to obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol etc., too much of anything tends to lead to problems..