should I marry my cousin

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Is the title of a documentary on the BBC (now 23.41) 70 % of the British Pakistani community is married to there cousin.

Tis a tradition

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Is the title of a documentary on the BBC (now 23.41) 70 % of the British Pakistani community is married to there cousin.

Tis a tradition

Oh God, **** end is on his tirade against foreigners again.
Are you going to present your false data again?
It appears to have worked well for royalty.

 

[transam]

Blimey one bloke has just done his family tree 4 generations and every one was married to a cousin

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Blimey one bloke has just done his family tree 4 generations and every one was married to a cousin

Prince Albert?
Prince Phillip?
Charles Darwin?

 

[transam]

blimey Pakistani births in the U.K are 3% but are responsible for 30% of genetic issues / defects.

young girl on there who was doing the doc has decided not to marry her cousin.

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Are you going to present your false data again?

blimey Pakistani births in the U.K are 3% but are responsible for 30% of genetic issues / defects.

Yes he is!

In the UK, the issue came to the fore when the MP Phil Woolas, now the Immigration minister, claimed earlier this year that first-cousin marriages within Asian communities in Britain resulted in an increasing number of children with health problems.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...s-getting-married-scientists-say-1210072.html
A politician prepared to twist the facts:

The former immigration minister Phil Woolas was ejected from parliament today after two high court judges ruled that he lied about his Liberal Democrat opponent during the general election...
Elwyn Watkins claimed that Woolas knowingly misled voters in Oldham East in a desperate bid to stir up religious tensions

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/05/phil-woolas-ejected-parliament-election

But **** end is not interested in truth, just the twisted misrepresentation of such like Phil Woolas.
Just to reaffirm the severity of the judgement against Phil Woolas:

In the first such decision for 99 years,

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/nov/05/phil-woolas-ejected-parliament-election

 

[IWalkLikeHimaMartian]

Kind of like the stuff that goes on here, in these threads:

Labour leader Ed Miliband (said) "There is obviously rough and tumble in politics, but sometimes you go beyond rough and tumble. I think this is a salutary reminder to all politicians across the political spectrum about the importance of a clean fight. "

Perhaps **** end, silly judith, BraFriend, et al, should bear this comment in mind when they make their false allegations.

 

[Ian H]

I'd shag her, but not get married.

Hope that helps.

 

[^woody^]

70 % of the British Pakistani community is married to there cousin.

That seems to be lower than the Gypsy community at 98.5%

The 0.5 comes about purely from the inbreeding

 

[Tigercubrider]

i was involved with a project aimed at advising against cousin marriage from a health aspect 20 years ago.
Immigrant communities sometimes choose this as a way of retaining "family" money and property.

EXACTLY like the Uk did until not so long ago.
It isn't a good idea, but it isn't "foreign" or illegal.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Royal family spring to mind.

 

[HawkEye244]

Royal family spring to mind.

Diana was a floozy though, rumour has it that Charles is not the father of Harry, that army colonel is.

 

[Doggit]

Didn't we do this thread a few months ago. It's a rerun.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Diana was a floozy though, rumour has it that Charles is not the father of Harry, that army colonel is.

 

[Brigade77]

Diana was a floozy though, rumour has it that Charles is not the father of Harry, that army colonel is.

Although the resemblance is striking, it is far more accurate to state that Harry's dad could be any one of a large number of the household cavalry !