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India-Pakistan
Pakistan: Cousin marriages create high risk of genetic disorders
2022-02-08
A subject rediscovered every few years.
[DW] Scientists say inbreeding is causing an unusually high number of genetic mutations to spread in Pakistain, leading to disabilities in children of consanguineous marriages. Still, this social custom persists.
Their family tree is a braid.
Ghafoor Hussain Shah is a 56-year-old teacher and father of eight children in Pakistain-administered Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
. According to tribal customs in Pakistain, Shah said he is expected to arrange the children's marriages within his extended family.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  and Iran:
A shocking video captured an Iranian man grinning as he walked through the streets clutching the severed head of his 17-year-old wife — whom he decapitated in an “honor killing,” according to a report.

The gruesome footage shows Sajjad Heydari strolling through a neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, on Saturday with Mona Heydari’s head in one hand and a blade in the other, East2West News reported.

Mona, who also was Sajjad’s cousin, had been forced to marry him when she was just 12 years old, according to the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

She reportedly suffered domestic abuse but was pressured to stay put for the sake of their 3-year-old son, even though she had expressed her wish to divorce the brute.
Posted by: Frank G   2022-02-08 15:01  

#6  Leading experts say, "D'oh!"
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-02-08 13:38  

#5  In a clan-based society, marrying your relatives has some advantages: it keeps wealth within the family and you don't get dragged into another clan's squabbles with their neighbors. Admittedly, the genetic thing is a bit of a downside.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-02-08 11:43  

#4  Hint: It's NOT the marriage that does it!
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-08 09:06  

#3  "If she aint good enough for her own family, she aint good enough for ours" culture?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-02-08 09:03  

#2  Their family tree is a braid.

or a stick
Posted by: Frank G   2022-02-08 07:29  

#1  
Exactly why we must fund and enable top-quality islamic studies that unerringly prove incëst cousin marriage is harmless. Also that polio vaccines are haraam.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-02-08 01:57  

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