‘I treat children with life-limiting conditions from cousin marriages – but we can’t talk about it’
Medics say they cause degenerative diseases in offspring, but
concerns over cultural sensitivity mean few are willing to tackle it
It seems that the “definite issue” of the “massive problems” of degenerative diseases in children caused by cousin-to-cousin marriage is one that few people are willing to discuss.
“Degenerative diseases are one of the most severe threats to public health,” he said. “Certain diaspora communities have extremely high rates of first cousin marriage. The worrying trend is that this rate has increased significantly from those of their grandparents’s age group.”
But Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire – where the population is more than 40 per cent Asian – argued a ban would be ineffective.
“The reason the practice is so common is that ordinary people see family intermarriage overall as something that is very positive, something that helps build family bonds and helps put families on a more secure financial foothold,” he said.
Those disorders include congenital heart problems, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, polycystic kidney disease or conditions such as von Willebrand disease, which affects blood clotting and causes bleeding problems.
In Pakistan, the prevalence of the blood disorder thalassaemia is seven per cent compared to a global average of one per cent. Many of these disorders require lifelong treatment and can lead to premature death.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/01/cousin-marriages-cause-life-limiting...Cultural sensitivity, eh?
By the beginning of the 21st century, in the city of Bradford, 75 per cent of Pakistani Britons were married to their first cousins. Even the neanderthal racists warning against the horrors of mass immigration in the late 1960s never thought to predict that in the Yorkshire grade-school classes of the early 21st century a majority of the pupils would be the children of first cousins.
Yet it happened.
The western elites stuck till the end to their view of man as homo economicus, no matter how obvious it was that cultural identity is a primal indicator that mere economic liberty cannot easily trump. If a man is a Muslim mill worker, which is more central to his identity – that he is a Muslim or that he works in a mill? So the mill closed down, and the Muslim remained, and arranged for his British-born sons to marry cousins imported from the old country, and so a short-term need for manual labor in the mid-twentieth century led to Yorkshire adopting Mirpuri marriage customs. Beyond Bradford, in the nation as a whole, 57 per cent of British Pakistanis were married to their first cousins by the turn of the 21st century. If, like most of the experts, you were insouciant about that number and assumed that the seductive charms of assimilation would soon work their magic, well, in 1970 the percentage was half that.
But back then there were a lot fewer cousins to marry.
Many non-Pakistani Britons were a little queasy about the marital preferences of their neighbors but no longer knew quite on what basis to object to it. "The ethos of relativism," wrote the novelist Martin Amis, "finds the demographic question so saturated in revulsions that it is rendered undiscussable."
British Pakistanis were then officially less than two per cent of the population, yet accounted for a third of all children born with rare recessive genetic diseases – such as Mucolipidosis Type IV, which affects brain function and prevents the body expelling waste.
Native Scots families aborted healthy babies at such a rate they're now all but extinct; Pakistani first-cousin families had two, three, four children born deaf, or blind, or requiring spoon-feeding and dressing their entire lives. Learning disabilities among this community cost the education system over $100,000 per child. They cost the government health system millions of pounds a year. And this was the only way a culturally relativist west could even broach the topic: nothing against cousin marriage, old boy, but it places a bit of a strain on the jolly old health care budget. Likewise, don't get me wrong, I've nothing against the polygamy, it's just the four welfare checks you're collecting for it. An attempt to confine spousal benefits to no more than two wives was struck down as discriminatory by the European Court of Human Rights.
But this was being penny-wise and pound-blasé. When 57 per cent of Pakistani Britons were married to first cousins, and another 15 per cent were married to relatives, and a fair number of those cousin couples were themselves the children of cousins, it surely signaled that at the very minimum this community was strongly resistant to traditional immigrant assimilation patterns. Of course, in any society, certain groups are self-segregating: the Amish, the Mennonites and so on. But when that group is not merely a curiosity on the fringe of the map but the principal source of population growth in all your major cities, the challenge posed by that self-segregation is of a different order.
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