Shocking if True: Muslim Inbreeding

by metatron 33 Replies latest jw friends

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  wasblind

  Hey Mrs Jones how are you

  VIII, I clicked on to your link, I am in the state of North Carolina

  even though it's legal here it's still frowned upon
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  Gregor

  First cousin marriages only become a problem when they are practiced over generations within the same gene pool. This concentrates genetic flaws and the undesireable effects become inevitable.

  As long as they don't start producing human/goat hybrids. (Although some Muslims men do tend to favor scraggly chin whiskers. Could they be hiding horn buds ubder those turbans?)
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  mrsjones5

  Hey Mrs Jones how are you

  Doing good. How are you?
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  cofty

  There was a very sober documentary on UK television about this a few months ago. It was not in any way sensationalist or negative about Muslim culture in general. It is a real problem especially among the immigrant community who seek marriage partners among their own relatively small group. For religious reasons it is even encouraged and some Muslim leaders interviewed in the programme are in denial about the damage that is being done.

  Remember we all have 2 copies of every gene in our cells - 1 from our mother and 1 from our father. If we have a damaged allele in our family gene pool, and all have plenty of them that are normally recessive, then there is a much higher risk of children inheriting a damaged gene from both parents. My family are from Romany origins on my fathers side. When I researched my family tree I found their was a similar practice in the Gypsy community in the 18th and early 19th C.
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  james_woods

  There was a very sober documentary on UK television about this a few months ago. It was not in any way sensationalist or negative about Muslim culture in general. It is a real problem especially among the immigrant community who seek marriage partners among their own relatively small group. For religious reasons it is even encouraged and some Muslim leaders interviewed in the programme are in denial about the damage that is being done.

  I was just about to post that I did not believe a word of this because of the large worldwide Muslim population, but in the above context it does seem quite possible.

  Wonder if something similar could happen to the JWs in places where their population is very limited?
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  palmtree67

  There was a JW family I knew years ago - She married her dad's brother, her uncle.

  They had 2 children, neither of which were normal.
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  PSacramento

  I wonder how things worked before we were such a diverse population?

  When man first started out as Homosapien he didn't have a lot to choose from and pretty much got it on with anyone they could get it on with.

  And yet, even under those very limited circumstances, here we are.

  Inbreeding was the ONLY breeding for 1000's of years it seems and yet man is still here and progress was still made and surivival of the fittest was still doing it's thing.

  It was inbreeding that led to homosapien and it was inbreeding that defines it for MANY, MANY generations.
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  james_woods

  I am not such a fan of inbreeding as Psacramento seems to be.
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  PSacramento

  I am not such a fan of inbreeding as Psacramento seems to be.

  LMAO !!

  I was just making a point from the science front, ;)

  While I personally find the whole inbredding thing quite disturbing, we do have to account for it in the history of Man.
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  cofty

  When man first started out as Homosapien he didn't have a lot to choose from ... It was inbreeding that led to homosapien and it was inbreeding that defines it for MANY, MANY generations.

  I don't want to get off-topic but I'm not sure I follow. There was no moment when Homo sapien appeared. Imagine you could travel back along a line of people with a modern human holding the hand of her mother who is holding the hand of her mother who is holding the hand of her mother who is.... and so on all the way back to Africa 2.5 million years ago there would never be a person in the line wher you could say this is when Homo erectus gave birth to a Homo sapien. Indeed from generation to generation it would be impossible to see any changes, that would only be visible from standing back and taking in the big picture.

  At every moment the individual would be part of a large breeding group. Most species instictively avoid breeding with close realtives, if I remember rightly smell plays a role in this but I would have to do some revision on that.