Friday, November 18, 2005

BRIT MP WANTS MUSLIM ENDOGAMOUS MARRIAGE BANNED

UK TELEGRAPH (hat tip LGF):
Marriages between cousins should be banned after research showed alarming rates in defective births among Asian communities in Britain, a Labour MP said last night. The report, commissioned by Ann Cryer, revealed that the Pakistani community accounted for 30 per cent of all births with recessive disorders, despite representing 3.4 per cent of the birth rate nationwide. "We address problems of smoking, drinking, obesity and we say it's a public health issue, therefore we have to get involved with persuading people to adopt a different lifestyle," the MP for Keighley, Bradford, told BBC2's Newsnight programme last night. "I think this should be applied to the Asian community. They must look outside the family for husbands and wives for their young people."
[NOTE: When Brits say "Asian" they mean Pakistani or people who we might refer to as South Asian.]

I posted about Muslim endogamous and polygamous marriage patterns and how they have negative socio-economic and political effects extensively in August, HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. And more recently HERE.

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