Marrying a cousin - 11.20pm BBC2 tonight

[Bookworm]

Re: Marrying a cousin - 11.20pm BBC2 tonight

@legbreakgoogly

The whole institution of marrying your cousins is sick and needs to be destroyed. It is medically a risk (chance of defective children rises to like 7% from 3% from normal couples), not to mention the biggest hinderance, which is moral. It is little more then incest, as bad as wedding a sister! First cousin-sister? whats the difference!

Didnt see the program, and didnt need to. Opposed this on all grounds for many years now. Its a sad indication of the Pakistani’s community’s failure to adapt and progress by absorbing that which is good in the host culture.

There are clear guidelines in Quran to whom you can not get married.
Surah An-Nisaa 4:23 : Prohibited to you (for marriage) are: your mother daughters sisters father’s sisters mother’s sisters; brother’s daughters sister’s daughters foster-mothers (who gave you suck) foster-sisters; your wives’ mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship born of your wives to whom ye have gone in no prohibition if ye have not gone in; (those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time except for what is past; for Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.