Kissin' Cousins

While surfing for a pro-Muslim web site which might be in the position to review Suitcase Filled with Nails,” I stumbled upon Jihad Watch, and I don’t think it is the kind of site I was looking for.  Interesting though.

JIHAD WATCH.

Denmark: Muslim cousin marriages fills schools for retarded

“Cousin marriages has negative impact on intelligence, sanity, health and society. In Pakistan, 70 percent of all marriages are between first cousins (so-called "consanguinity") and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30 percent. Across the Arab world today an average of 45 percent (in some parts up to 70 percent) of married couples are related.

This phenomenon is allowed for by Islam's marriage law, which is delineated in Qur'an 4:23-34, making this something for which Sharia opens the door.

The lowered intelligence, psychiatric diseases and low status that result from handicaps that afflict many Muslim children as a result of inbreeding may increase the chances of luring people into becoming suicide bombers.”

Doesn’t this just automatically make you think of the Underwear Bomber?  And, the word retarded.  The Underwear Bomber will get his come-uppance for sure.  But the author of  “Denmark: Muslim Cousins Fill schools for Retarded,” will go Scott free.  Even though the author may have his statistics correct, ‘retarded.’ is just plain politically explosive. Maybe that was the author’s plan.

In Kuwait, I taught developmentally challenged students, the off -spring of first cousin marriages.  I attended the marriages of many friends who married her first cousin.  I don’t know how their kids will come out, or even if, the statistics cited by the author of the article above, will factor into their lives.   

I’ll just keep searching for other sites to support my platform and there are lots out there like the Middle East Forum, interesting, but still not quite what I was looking for.  In the mean time Suitcase Filled with Nails made the front page of EEK! Expats e-Mag Kuwait

Attachments

EEK! Issue #3, November 2011

Scroll down a few pages for excerpts.  It’s a nice sight.